| Muse – Dead Star Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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As I recall, in an interview Bellamy suggested that the person being referred to in the song is not a "person" at all, but a country - specifically the USA. Bellamy said in an interview that the song was inspired by the American reaction to 9/11 and more specifically how the media in the US reacted. The band were in the US when the attack happened and were stranded there as flights were grounded. |
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| Muse – Madness Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I felt it was about Gaia too, the second I heard it. I might be willing to accept this song is "really" about Kate and an argument he had with her if it wasn't for the fact that even today STILL all this time after his and Gaia's breakup he still sings "since I lost you" at live gigs, instead of "since I met you" when singing Map of the Problematique. Many of the songs on Black Holes and Revelations are about his relationship with Gaia, and MotP is one of the most well known examples... if he was truly over his break up with Gaia and would he really still mod the lyrics like that? *shrugs* I think whether he's conscious of it or not, he's still processing his break up with Gaia... but hey, who knows... it's just my little theory! |
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| Muse – Madness Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I felt it was about Gaia too, the second I heard it. I might be willing to accept this song is "really" about Kate and an argument he had with her if it wasn't for the fact that even today STILL all this time after his and Gaia's breakup he still sings "since I lost you" at live gigs, instead of "since I found you" when singing Map of the Problematique. Many of the songs on Black Holes and Revelations are about his relationship with Gaia, and MotP is one of the most well known examples... if he was truly over his break up with Gaia and would he really still mod the lyrics like that? *shrugs* I think whether he's conscious of it or not, he's still processing his break up with Gaia... but hey, who knows... it's just my little theory! |
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| Paloma Faith – New York Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Perhaps this song is an antidote to all the songs singing the praises of New York in recent years? It seems to me to be about a break up, her lover has gone to New York and decided to stay, and so she laments that New York has poisoned her lover against her. She doesn't want to hear about his new friends and his new life. She even sings "please don't make me go to New York" towards the end. Seems she realises that she has to let him go because he has a new life without her and she doesn't want to be a part of it, she just wants him back with her. Quite a poignant song for anyone who has lost a lover to the perils of long distance relationships - they make new friends, they have new experiences, and inevitably become different people. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Right Where It Belongs Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I wish the reply function would work, but what idlj13 wrote about Plato's Cave resonates with myself too. I wasn't aware that Reznor had been battling alcoholism when writing this song, but that just makes me warm to it all the more - he was in a place of real pain when writing this song, the words are clearly directly from the core of his being. The pain evident in every line. I came to this song, as quite a few people I believe, through a video someone made several years ago about quitting the MMORPG World of Warcraft. The video was called "Goodbye Blue Sky - Running on Empty" and can still be found on Youtube. Taken in that context the words have powerful almost literal connotations. People allow themselves to fall completely into the fantasy world of virtual words as an escape from the pain of their every day lives and the disappointment of unfulfilled potential - as Jane McGonigal states in her book on this subject "when we're playing video games, we're not suffering." When I first heard this song I thought it was literally talking about my life, how I had built myself into a cage to keep the real world and all it's pain and disappointment out. How living a life in the virtual world is comfortable and easy but ultimately hollow as it isolates you further and further from reality and the healing presence of other people. The reason I think it strongly resonated with so many MMORPG players, particularly WoW players due to this video, was because of the lines about living in a fantasy world, an illusion created by yourself, living in your own head and despite it all being truly alone. That is the definition of life in an MMORPG like World of Warcraft. For myself, the lines about looking at your reflection and asking yourself is this who you wanted to be? Is this person, trapped in a pretend world, isolated, alone and unsatisfied - is this who you saw yourself becoming? It can't help but strike a chord, no one who plays WoW to escape the painfulness of their lives set out to be in that place; none of them. A lot of people who play those games are the social outcasts; the types of people society likes to airbrush out and pretend aren't there. Looking through the cracks as Reznor puts it, is frightening because you have to see past the safe reality to break out of it, see the real world for all it's pain and ugliness and still step forward away from the safety net of the virtual world and make a place for yourself. I realise this is a very specific interpretation of the song which will not apply to most who hear it, but those of you who did hear this in connection to WoW or those who heard it after being involved very deeply in an MMORPG - I'm sure hearing this song was as painful for you as it was for me. |
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| Elbow – An Audience with the Pope Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I was always reminded of the relationship between the Doctor and Rose Tyler from Doctor Who when listening to this song. Is that mad? lol The chorus mostly... that the Doctor would drop everything for Rose (and he frequently did). Anyone else or was that just me? xD |
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| Muse – Dead Star Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Bellamy has already stated this is about the US reaction to 9/11 and how disgusted he was at how everyone was quick to point the finger at the Middle-East and not look at themselves. Matt publically subscribes to conspiracy theories of terrestial origin, not just extra-terrestrial. Hence why he played a live gig with the words 'Terror Storm' (the name of Alex Jones' mental illuminati documentary - Google it!) he himself wrote on the back. Songs only mean what they mean to you, I admit... but this is the original meaning of the words. |
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| Elbow – The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Should listen to the Live at Abbey Road version - that line is absolutely epic. | |
| Céline Dion – Fly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When my dad died in 2000 I was asked to choose a song to be played at his service as people were leaving. My dad was a well loved man, the church was full, people were standing in the back and even outside because they couldn't get in... This is the song I chose, and people stopped in their tracks, no one could bring themselves to leave as they heard this song and it ended up being looped I think 4 times before everyone moved outside. It makes me cry to hear it now, such bittersweet memories... I'm so glad my dad was loved by everyone he knew--thank you Celine for this song allowing me to show what my dad meant to me. | |
| Muse – The Groove Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Ryanlovesmuse -- I take it you haven't heard "Fuck you Motherfucker" then. | |
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