Micro Cuts

I hate people who say its just him screaming and not actually singing....Its part of the song, and the emphasis of anger and hate and fear

to me its about being driven to insanity by someone/something, which is fitting to the tortured way he sings it. in a literal interpretation verse 1; hes been driven to murder, blood on his hands, people calling out for the missing person, the person wimpering and the souls above crying as he/she/it dies. verse2 describes his tortured insane mind, and the chorus is blaming whatever person/thing has destroyed his sanity and lead him to this.

it's about hating god, Muse are some pretty hardcore atheists, lot of their lyrics make more sense in that context (no one cares if u think its an awesome song or what your favorite part is that shit is annoying as hell to read!)

there's something very operatic about this song. it's very meladramatic, and i love it!

what the hell does blaine mean? I\'ve looked it up in a thousand books, but it does not excist, the word does not exist! help me!

I really liked this song before I heard it live. Once I went to their concert and heard it, I fell in love. The whole stadium was just in awed, and believe it or not moshing to it!!!

Love the lyrics. I wish the vocals were more understandable though. I like the music, but the vocals just sort of kill it for me... I like to be able to understand lyrics... maybe it's just me... Anyways, I think this song is about wanting to love someone because they've done so much for you.. but you just don't. "Hands are red with your blame megaphone screaming my name whimpers someone i should've loved" and "I've seen what you're doing to me destroying puppet strings to our souls" makes me think that the most. "Blackboard scratched with hate" makes me think more of hating that you don't love them.. you just want them to go away. All they do is add an annoying reminder of how you don't love them how they love you anymore.

To me the song is about how modern society is making people souless. If you imagine that a soul is the devine part of us, it's where our love and personally live. The 'Micro Cuts' are the tiny slices things like television and the media make to the link between ourselves and our souls. The 'red hands' are from the doctor making the slices in your brain that disconnects you from your soul - kind of like the experiments in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' books. Everyone's souls are 'weeping from above' as they have been cut away from us. The 'whimpering love' is because now he has no soul he can't love anyone anymore and it makes the person he should have falling in love with cry because he is dead inside. The 'micro cuts' are barely noticable, just a slight irritation like a fork squeaking on a plate, but over time they result in disconnection from your higher self and becoming a media zombie. So carry on listening to good music and switch off the television!! TV is the opiate of the masses and this song is basically Matt screaming out against it and how angry it makes him. Love it!

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy said that the song was inspired by a dream he had in which he was in a desert and there were giant blades swinging from the sky, matt said: "I was having these strange hallucinations of this triangular blade, really silver metallic, razor sharp. I was in this landscape, arid, grey, dead with an endless horizon and I was trying to dodge these blades that were flying about everywhere. They'd go into my head and I could feel them cutting into my brain... Then I went to the doctor and he told me to drink more water and that was that." "Micro Cuts" has been speculated to have been inspired by Prelude N°3 in D minor (BWV999) by Johann-Sebastian Bach. When asked about the meaning of the song, Matt stated; "This stems from hallucinations I had of triangular blades cutting into the back of my head. It's a feeling that information is being infiltrated into your brain. I'd seen a TV programme about psychological warfare and how the government could be controlling us using a type of radiation, sending pulses to our brains. So micro cuts are cuts into your being that you can't see or avoid"

think it's about fame... I think they very often alude to fame in their songs, but i might be wrong