This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Let's start over again
Why can't we start it over again
Just let us start it over again
And we'll be good
This time we'll get it, get it right
It's our last chance to forgive ourselves
Why can't we start it over again
Just let us start it over again
And we'll be good
This time we'll get it, get it right
It's our last chance to forgive ourselves
Lyrics submitted by hallowedbe666, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Exogenesis : Symphony Part III (Redemption) Lyrics as written by Matthew James Bellamy Matt Bellamy
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
Has to be listened with the rest of Exogensis to be fully appreciated.
It just boggles the mind that there is a band out there on a major label, making popular music that dares to have this level of artistic vision and sheer ambition. Even though a band writing a symphony is pretentious in the extreme, this is phenomenal stuff, you have to take your hat off to it.
Most definitely, well said!
How is it pretentious? These men are amazing musicians, and symphonies are written BY musicians. This is not pretentious at all. Was it pretentious for Mozart or Beethoven? Just because Muse generally does not write symphonies does not mean that they are not allowed to. And, ALL of their music has always been artistic, visionary, and ambitious. BTW, "pretentious" is defined by Merriam Webster as: : characterized by pretension [which is "an allegation of doubtful value"]: as A : making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing) B : expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature"
if you don't think a rock band writing a symphony isn't ostentatious, what adjective would you use?<br /> <br /> you seem to have myopicly latched onto the negative connotations of the word I used, when it was clearly intended as praise.<br /> <br /> Go find someone else to flame :)
absolutely beautiful. nearly brought me to tears the first time i listened to the symphony, especially redemption. stunning.
anyone else think the album artwork is heavily linked with this 3 part symphony? or am i just stating the obvious?
You're absolutely right!<br /> I was just looking at the lyrics of the previous two parts of the symphony and the first thing that came to my mind was the artwork.
"It's our last chance to forgive ourselves" is quite possibly one of the most beautiful lyrics I have ever heard in my life. It's a reminder that throughout life, we need to remember we can forgive ourselves for everything we've done wrong. We can always start again. We can redeem ourselves.
<3 Exogenesis.
Muse's songwriting is unfocused and clever enough to enable several interpretations.
The story the lyrics have been inspired by is quite renowned : like it has been previously said, the story is about humanity sending astronauts into space to find a new planet to live and spread human race, because Earth is doomed. To quote a previous user "Part 3 is when the astronauts realize that it is just one big cycle, and recognize that unless humanity can change it will happen all over again".
However, the song can be understood as an evocation of the overall theme of being given a second chance. This meaning can be carried by the lyrics but also by the crescendo-like construction of the song.
It refers to an event resulting in protagonists considering an opportunity, offered but not yet seized, of taking a brand new start into something, after a great trauma or crisis.
For example, it works very well if you apply it to a romance :
Two lovers went through a big emotional crisis (one cheating on the other, betraying him/her, neglecting him/her…) leading to a split. Once the crisis is over, they decide to wipe away the troubles and take a new start, this time avoiding their previous mistakes. Considering how serious their quarrel was, this solution is a desperate attempt to reconcile with each other and try to go on : "It's our last chance […]". Both lovers share guiltiness, they both have wrongs to apologize for, and to do it is the only path leading to a new peace : "[…] to forgive ourselves". Of course this interpretation works with any kind of relationship, although the extremity which the characters involved seem to have been led to, plus the urge, tense, desperate and romantic feeling carried by the instrumentation based on strings, suggest a very close relationship, so my first thought was a love story.
The official music video "Furiko" ("Pendulum") by Takefumi "Tekken" Kurashina also helps feeding this interpretation, but in a different way.
The song is full of hope and promises for the future, and yet it keeps a slight ambiguity that might lead to consider the meaning desperate and hopeless. "Just let us start it over again" and "Why can't we start it over again" suggests that the protagonist aren't, in some way, allowed to try and get their second chance, that they aren't in the capability of being redeemed, and they are begging for it, suffering of being deprived of that chance.
These sentences fit perfectly the music video "Pendulum" : a man (or more likely his soul/spirit) tries desperately to stop the pendulum representing the course of Time, in order to get the chance/the time to repair its faults against his wife. The good and innocent moments the couple spent together are also displayed in the background during this sequence, echoing with the "fight against time" occurring, in a way that suggests that the man would like to go back in time, to get the chance to make the good choices and treat his wife properly.
In this sadder vision, the song becomes a reflection on the theme of mankind struggling against its mortal condition : we are running short of time to do everything right the way we'd like it to be done. It echoes to the general need for us to be forgiven, which means : to be loved in spite of our flaws and failures.
However, in the end, the pace of the song slow down, and the peaceful piano notes of the beginning come back. Of course it suggests a cycling story, like "the story will repeat itself", and with it, all the wrongs. But the cooling down feeling also suggests some kind of happy end, like the weather calming down after a storm. Ending that way, the song may give a feeling of a found back peace, like if the redemption (after all, it's the subtitle of the song) as been successfully completed. So the song let you free to hope and choose what end you want to give it.
I love to see Muse make an entire album in the same symphonic manner. i cant imagine how epic it would be if they did.
beautiful music!
I listened to it about 80 minutes ago...still haven't got words for it
The piano work sounds a lot like Beethoven's first movement of his Moonlight sonata.