| Muse – Citizen Erased Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i go with the 1984 feeling as well, along with New Born. it fits too much with the whole Thought Police and how they erase the citizens. i really think he read that book around this time. |
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| Muse – Exo-Politics Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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everyone should know this song is nowhere near about aliens -- he's using it as an example with the government, if it were to happen would they tell us, and would they tell us why? it's about the government and the lies they make up to sugar coat and hush hush everything. we still don't know the whole story on 9/11, and i doubt we ever will, but who knows? the good ole fucking government. the chorus i think is just a big fuck you filled with sarcasm to the world leaders -- listen to Take A Bow and you can see how against them he is. "I'm waiting patiently and i'll wait for the sign" is just loaded with sarcasm because he knows they won't be telling us anything anytime soon. i really want to see that interview of him saying what it means. i find it amusing that Matt doesn't take his lyrics seriously. |
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| Muse – New Born Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i think everyone at one point or another think he says butt squeeze. his accent is so damn thick i wouldn't put it past him. and yeah, the line is "soulless", it says it in the album cover. if anyone's read 1984 by George Orwell, i personally think the meaning of the song will make a lot more sense; all you have to do is read the first chapter to understand the song. Matt's said two things about the song -- one that it's about technology and what could happen in the future as a result, and two that it's about a person who has anger and has to let it out (something to that effect, the interview is on youtube). in the first chapter of 1984 the main character is at this thing called the Two Minutes Hate, where everyone just pretty much hates everything about their enemies and everyone. the main character just completely loses it -- to me that sounds a lot like New Born. i think lines like "soulless is everywhere" and "seen too much" go hand in hand with the book, and the only way to really get what i'm saying is by just reading the first 20 pages of it. i don't think it's so much about technological advancements, i think it's about a person who's seen a lot in their life and has a lot of anger that's locked inside. i think the structure of the song has a lot to do with it as well -- the beginning with the slow piano and light drums is the person before letting anything out, and then the moment the guitar riff comes in... that's it, the person's done. everything they've been feeling is expressed for the next 4 or 5 minutes. |
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| Muse – Spiral Static Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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sounds to me almost like prostitution or something. a guy going to a call girl because he needs sex to feel better, she's just as broken as him and he wonders if she can give him enough. in the end both will feel just as broken because the guy could've cheated on his girlfriend, wants sex just to feel worthy, feel better, etc. and the girl gave him sex because it's technically her job, and who's to say she's even in the business because she wants to be in it? it's definitely Spiral static -- i've never seen it as "Spiritual" and in the lyrics it says "spiral". |
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| Muse – Escape Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i don't see how people are saying schizophrenic -- i was on wikipedia and it comes up on the list of songs about mental illness. slightly offended there considering that's not what it's all about... apparently some people don't know how to read or listen. if you listen close enough you could flat out tell it's about his father or anyone for that matter who he really doesn't have that much of a love for anymore -- "'Cause you and me are both one of the same" should really ring a bell. usually in cases where children don't like (i refuse to use "hate" since it's such a strong word), they sometimes are just like the one they don't get along with and it kills the child inside because it's not who they want to be as they grow up. i've read that the majority of songs from Showbiz are old, and i can see how. Matt could've written this when he was about 16 or 17, right around or after the time his parents divorced. for all we know, it could even be about his mother and not the father -- just because his father moved out doesn't mean there isn't a slight dislike towards the father. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i'm starting to get into Buckley, and honestly who can't after hearing his version of the song? like others have said, it's a song that can mean anything to the person, whether it be personal or something else. everyone is touched by a song like this in a different way, and it that case you either love the song, or you flat out hate it. the ending verse sums up the meaning of the song for the writer -- although love has it's moments when it sucks, at the end somehow some people still find it in them to believe. although it wasn't necessarily intended to happen, the song has it's religious points. you don't have to be religious to listen to it, but again with the end verse -- someone still has a belief in God that everything will be all right and they will be loved again. the song talks about faith and hallelujah -- how can it not relate to religion at least in some small sense? overall it's an amazing, beautiful song. and i definitely agree, it's hard to listen to around other people especially if it touches you differently and emotionally than someone else. |
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| Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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didn't he say he got the idea after watching a bunch of horror movies? or was that for the video? it's one of those songs where anyone can make their own interpertation of it. but in my eyes i think it's about society and how much everyone pretty much sucks, and how you just wish this black hole would come and suck up all he bad and leave you with the good. or considering summer is mentioned a lot, maybe it has to do with the boredom of summer? |
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| Muse – Blackout Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i honestly don't think the song's about two lovers. granted Matt mentions love, but with the way he writes you need to read inbetween the lines. to me the song's more about being young. love could mean anything, doesn't mean you have to be with one another person. the song to me is about being young, but growing up and knowing down the line that if you "embrace the past" then you dwell too much, and as you grow up you begin to wonder what's there to dream of anymore? the last stanza is really what makes me think it's about being young because he says "this life's too good to last and we're too young to see" because when you're young, what do you honestly know? when you're 16 you dream of everything and you want to do everything because you're young. but then when you grow up everything stops, and that most likely is why the song's called Blackout. |
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| Simple Minds – Don't You (Forget About Me) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i don't think it's really a love song. when you watch The Breakfast Club, you know that after that detention they're going to go back to their own lives in school. they most likely will never talk to each other again or even look at one another in the hallway. that's what the song's about; when you know people and you wonder if they'll ever forget about you. same goes for when one of your best friends gets a BF or a GF... will they forget about you and just be with their partner? |
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| Muse – Map of Your Head Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i don't think it's about alcohol. yeah he might have recorded it with a hangover, but i doubt the song ITSELF is about that. think of what a map is -- you use it to find your way around. i think this song is about always listening to people bitch and complain, but when it comes down to you needing someone to talk to they can give two shits and just don't understand what you're trying to say. so when he says "i don't need another map of your head" he's basically saying i don't care what you have to say anymore. |
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| Muse – Glorious Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| faith. that seems to be the main focus of the song. | |
| Muse – Easily Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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love is easily forgotten because of little things that happen and the little things that are talked about. he wants the one he's in a relationship to remember him when she's out "feeling beautiful" with other people and possibly remain faithful, he wants her to remember him when "her fears are cast aside" after they talk about something emotional and not just brush it off like some do, and he wants to "hypnotize her so" she remembers him after everything and doesn't forget the love they had. Matt has said that songs are inspired by his fiance's constant nagging, and i think this is another one aside from Map of the Problematique, in the sense she could nag him so much, but does she really know how much Matt loves her. in a nutshell he is trying to say that love is easily forgotten, but at the same time it is not so easy to stay in love and remain as faithful as you can. but at the end, the love is easily the best love he ever had because no love before her was better. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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growing up. that is what i get from the song, being a teenager and growing up. this sing really starts to mean something to you when you're 16 and thinking about your future. that's what this song means to me. |
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| Muse – Shine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i agree with the whole concept that this song is about growing up, but i think the "shine" in the song is a person who he was once close to, or possibly a "God" he used to possibly at one time believe in. i don't think the song is about breaking up with someone. as in a "God" figure i mean the ending verse. "I believe that you'd always be here, promised a life with no fear" is just a sign of growing up, and wondering where that godly figure is in your life as you get older, because you can't go back to a time when it was good. |
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| Muse – Bliss Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i think it's about a person who is envious of someone's happiness. he wants to be equally as happy but can't and looks at the one person he admires and wants it. | |
| Muse – Map of the Problematique Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Matt has said before that certain songs are inspired by his fiance's nagging, and this is one of them. the lyrics and the title make complete sense for someone who is constantly being nagged about every little thing you do. pointing their fingers, saying stuff and criticizing all the actions made. it's not that he doesn't love her, because he does very much i am sure, but at the end when he says "when we bleed we bleed the same" i think Matt is just trying to say it doesn't matter anymore. he can be the one to blame, and so can she but in the end in certain situations both are to blame. he even addresses in the song ("well i refuse to let you go") that despite the nagging, he loves her very much. | |
| Linkin Park – Shadow Of The Day Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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for me this song is about death, that is the perspective i get from it because my uncle died of cancer last year around this time. for me it reminds me of him, but i think this is what the generalized meaning is: forgetting about the bad and letting the good come in. even though the lyrics are happy, the beat of the sound makes it sound sad - almost like invincible by muse. like someone said a few pages back, shadow of the day means it takes over the guilt, regret, saddness, etc. that a person is feeling - the sun setting and the shadow is going to take it away. |
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| Sum 41 – We're All To Blame Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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it is a real eye-opener to what is going on in the world today. everyone is so quick to blame one another for what someone else has done, and an example is with Bush. i am not a fan of him, but every president has to clean up from the past one. he tried... but in a sense failed. we want it all with no sacrifice is the truth, and i think that is the main point of the song, aside from that everyone is to blame for what happens in the world. everyone wants something, but doesn't want to do a thing for it. it's a sad, sad thing. |
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| Muse – Supermassive Black Hole Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i don't see why a lot of people can't stand this song. i think it is just about loving someone and they suck you in like a supermassive black hole... whereas a black hole sucks a person in to the point of no return. aka, Matt and Gaia |
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| Muse – Cave Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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think about what the whole album surfaces around; them living in Devon and the media. when Muse first started Matt got involved with "dodgy people" and there was one in particular who Matt stole a car with and he had to sell the tour bus to get his money back. could possibly be about that, considering he said it is about a friend that is no longer his friend. "come in my cave" can be a reference to how he wanted to kill the person as well... in a car crusher... anyway, i can see where people are coming from with eating disorders and mental disorders. i mean Matt was very thin when Muse started, but i doubt he had any eating issues. |
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| Muse – Muscle Museum Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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the only song on Showbiz i personally think that's about a girl would have to be Unintended. other then that, the album surfaces around growing up in Devon and what they had to do to be accepted amongst the town and have a chance to play their own music without being called "Radiohead copycats". the word muscle has more meaning then just a tissue in the body. muscle means strength or force. if you have watched the video, everyone is pretty much suffering in one form or another, or probably doing something that they are being forced to do. the song is a reference to probably living in a so-called "muscle museum", being forced to do something you don't want to do and i think that is what Matt was trying to say when he wrote it. |
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