Crying Shame

This is the final studio version of Crying Shame released as a B-Side on the Supermassive Black Hole single. I think the lyrics are slightly different from the demo version they played at Earl's Court on 19th December 2003, and they're very different from the version already posted on songmeanings.net! I think this is a pretty cool track though, wouldn't have been a bad A-Side.

first chorus is 'made the spell abate' but apart from that it's all good =]=]

It's simply about a good relationship which got fucked up because the woman pushed things too far: "yeah baby you've lost your touch" And yes, Muse B-sides are AWSOME!!!!!!!

Heh, "Crying shame" must be an idiom, it's a way of saying something's a really great shame, but I think it sounds quite ironic in this song myself. Shame as in disappointment, I'm pretty sure.

I think this song has a political undertone to it. Sort of how a country (US, UK, etc) which once was strong has now just decreased into a former shell of itself somewhere along the line, and its too late to really go back and improve things. Its gotten to the point where the people are desensitized by TV and they don't care or don't know what's going on, and corporations have the government in a choke hold, that kind of thing. The line "And its time to desecrate" could be a potential call for the people to rebel and change things themselves. "And we demolished too much / And yeah we really fucked it up" could mean possibly the destruction of wilderness and nature in favor of more suburbs or commercial buildings, or it could easily mean going to war and severely messing up. (And with this being a B-Side on the Black Holes and Revelations album, the theme would fit)

I love it! "too late, your bid is too late, when you’re cut to the tear, " means something big! Probly a relationship or cormmand?

I love this song! I don't know what it means, and there isn't a studio version yet, but the part where he just yells "WELL ITS A CRYING SHAME!!!" hits me! It is so powerful!

I can't wait until they record a studio version!

the correct lyrics are:

Too late Yeah baby it's too late And time has made the spell obey And now it's time to desecrate

But we had a dream And it was meant to be And we were kissing gods Against all the odds

Now it's a crying shame And it's a crying shame You don't know who to blame We'll never be the same And it's a crying shame

Too much And we demolished too much And yeah we really fucked it up And yeah baby you've lost your touch

But we had a dream And it was meant to be And we were kissing gods Against all the odds

Now it's a crying shame And it's a crying shame You don't know who to blame We'll never be the same And it's a crying shame And it's a crying shame

what a falsetto at the end, so amazing how he can do that

This song is about how his relationship is ending and how they messed up somewhere along the lines of it and now things are different.