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Resuscitate
In my sleep
Awake to see
You're never here
And the losing yields
Another year
Face your hopes and fears
And I wish
I could believe there is more
Hope suffocating
And you missed my life
And the planes and trains
Are to blame
For tempting us
To refrain
And to cut the cord
Dis every word
Of the truths absurd
And I wish
I could believe there is more
(I wish
I could believe there is more)
Hope suffocating
and you kissed my life
Hope suffocating
Hope suffocating
Hope suffocating
And you missed my life
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I can't believe nobody ever commented on this. It's been here for 3 years, and it's a great song. Although these lyrics are horribly wrong.

Recessitate in my sleep. Awake to see you're never here. And the losing yields another year facing hopes and fears.

And i wish I could believe there was more. Hope suffocating, and you've used my life.

And the planes and trains are to blame for tempting us to refrain. And to cut the cord, and dis every word. All the truth's absurd.

And i wish I could believe there was more. Hope suffocating, and you've kissed my life.

(And i wish I could believe there was more.) Hope suffocating, hope suffocating, hope suffocating and you've missed my life.

That said, I have no idea what it all means.

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About a long distance relationship. Missing someone but not able to see them. After a while, they break up because of the distance and then he remembers her.

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New favourite song. I was listening to it on the bus home and the arrangement of music is just awesome. So then when i was getting ready i just had it on repeat.. I LOVE IT!!!

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Pretty much awesome, Hullabuloo has some great tracks on it

Cover art for Recess lyrics by Muse

Thanks for putting up the real lyrics, I was just listening and reading and I was like what the duce! ahahaha...absolutely unreal song!!!!

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If anyone has ever read Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly, the freaky guitar riffs at the end remind me of the monster being brought to life. The Hope part, which I take as hopes are to kill, kind of reflects the dismissal of the hopes that Victor Frankenstein had for his creation before he realized what a horrible mistake he had made.

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I always thought it was 'Hopes are for kids'.

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First of all...I love this song. Muse is amazing

I think the song is about someone who has been depressed and is thinking "what's the point of life? You just die in the end". And the person believes that you live, you die, and that's the end (I actually believe that), and is wishing that he could believe there was something more, but can't, because he knows there's not.

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First of all...I love this song. Muse is amazing

I think the song is about someone who has been depressed and is thinking "what's the point of life? You just die in the end". And the person believes that you live, you die, and that's the end (I actually believe that), and is wishing that he could believe there was something more, but can't, because he knows there's not.

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I don't know why the song is called "Recess", but this is my new favourite Muse song and I think the guitar riff is perfectly awesome!