Pure hearts and stumble
In my hands they crumble
And fragile and stripped to the core
I can't hurt you anymore
Loved by numbers
You loosing life's wonder
And touch like strangers detached
I can't feel you anymore

The sunshine, trapped in our hearts
It could rise again, but I'm lost
And crushed
I'm cold and confused with no guiding light left inside
You were my guiding light, mhm yeah

Oh-oh, oh-oh
When comfort and warmth can't be found, I still reach for you
But I'm lost and crushed
I'm cold and confused with no guiding light left inside

You're my guiding light
You're my guiding light
When there's no guiding light left inside
When there's no guiding light in our lives


Lyrics submitted by blinxbcr, edited by injekted, firewind2009

Guiding Light Lyrics as written by Matt Bellamy

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    ok so here we go...

    to get what this song is about, you have to think of its context with the song before it. "United States of Eurasia" has the one world order theme of bringing east and west together into one. it ends in lament as you hear jet planes fly overhead. they're bombing you (the listener) and you can even hear the bass rumble get louder and louder (on a good system) as if the bombs are landing in front of you and headed in a path straight for you. the bomb that kills you is the beginning of the song with the bass drum intro.

    "pure hearts stumble" describes that the people who were responsible for this were born good and had good in them but, for reasons we'll get into later, they were responsible for your (the listeners) death. "my hands crumble" means literally this. "fragile and stripped to the core" describes his fragile body is gone and only his spirit is left "i can't hurt you anymore" explains that the people who bombed us (the listener) probably viewed us as a threat and we can no longer stand up to them.

    "loved by numbers" explains the motives for these people who are responsible for the bombing, and it's the almighty dollar. probably war profiteering since that would tie into the theme of jets and bombs. "your losing life's wonder" explains that unwavering devoted to the dollar will leave you void of all lifes little wonders. ala stop and smell the roses. "touch like strangers; detached" explains the rift between the two cultures. the culture of us (99%) and the 1%. quite a rift indeed. "i can't hurt you anymore" is the last line of the second stanza which ties into the last line of the first stanza describing physical condition and threat level.

    "sunshine trapped in our hearts could rise again" explains how this way of living could be changed and the humanity could be seen for what it is.

    now to all this guiding light business...

    i personally believe that matt is talking about a specific drug called DMT. It's in every human brain right in the third eye area. matt references it on the first song on the album "Uprising" singing "flick a switch and open your third eye, you'd see that we should never be afraid to die" the dying theme is displayed obviously in this song too. also he says the name of this song and more in "I Belong to You" singing "your my GUIDING LIGHTning strike. both these songs are completely about DMT.

    leapyearfrogon February 04, 2012   Link

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