Muse – Pink Ego Box

"Pink Ego Box" as written by and Matthew James Bellamy....
It's gonna be okay
Can't afford another day
At fifty bytes per second
I've never seen your face
I've never heard your voice
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell you're gonna be
Just like me
My eyes are gone strain
My heart is feeling pain
At fifty beats per second
I've never seen your eyes
I've never heard your voice
But I think I like it
When you instant message me
With a promise
I can feel it
I can tell you're gonna be
Just like me
Just like me
You said
You said


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"Pink Ego Box" as written by Matthew James Bellamy Matt Bellamy

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  • +1
    General CommentTen points to anyone who's ever heard a song even REMOLTLY like this. So origional, so beautiful.

    I want to eat muse with a spoon
    Ryanlovesmuseon March 02, 2005   Link
  • +1
    General CommentThis song to me is about how our society today has gone totally digital and anti-social. We tend to express our feelings through indirect ways, ex: text messaging, and instant messaging. This method of expressing ourselves is very impersonal when compared to doing it face to face. Towards the end of the song Matt shows what happens when you take impersonal expression seriously. The one expressing it gives the wrong vibes to the recipient causing the person to go crazy being led to believe falsely. In short it's probably a better idea to express yourself to the person face.

    Wicked sweet song though!!!
    feihTehToTliaHon December 09, 2008   Link
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    General CommentI'm pretty sure the last three lines are "You didn't tell, you didn't tell, you didn't tell me!" He could be referring to a number of things. Matt mentions that he's "never heard your lies", maybe this is the point where he relives the realization that she is a liar or that something she said turned out to be false. Or it could possibly be something about her appearance: He appeared to be waiting for something to download on an incredibly slow internet (50 bites per second), which I suspect is a picture. He continues to put off downloading the picture though, putting faith in the idea that she's going to be practically perfect. Whatever it is she didn't tell him, it was enough to throw him into, for lack of a better word, hysteria at the end of the song.
    TheDJon June 30, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General CommentDefinatley an online relationship of some sorts. The end of the song could possibly mean a stalker, but its almost a tragic cyber love song.
    CJFon August 27, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General CommentI'm thinking this song is about insant messengers, wow arent i smart, yeah anyway its about meeting up with a girl online and then falling in love or at least having cybersex, well thats all i got
    swayeron March 18, 2003   Link
  • 0
    General CommentI think you might be pretty right. This song was written while Bellamy had an on-line relationship with a Dutch girl....or so they say :)
    Karmapdon May 06, 2003   Link
  • 0
    General CommentYeah, I agree. Kind of like the relationship I had with soem guy online. Obviously it all went wrong, but at least I could listen to a great song when it did!
    kiiabbyon June 21, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Commentlmao "youve got post" that makes me piss my pants! maybe im easily amused..:( lol its the tinkle noise!
    RagdollSuicideson November 28, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Commentthis song is rather brilliant
    smashing_meon December 04, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Commentthis song is definately about an online relationship.. and shows the persons feelings on the relationship.
    howz_gon December 08, 2004   Link

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