Do We Need This? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by forfeit_the_game 

Cover art for Do We Need This? lyrics by Muse

I think this song is about how people are kept alive in hospitals on machines, and how sometimes its painful for these people to be kept alive, or they don't want to be kept alive, but other people are keeping them alive because THEY dont want to lose the ill person. I think its about how selfish people can be, and how people can put other people through misery for their benefit.

Maybe Matt is talking about how we keep on developing our technology tod make them live longer, when maybe we should stop and think about whether we really need to do this, and maybe whether the person actually wants to be kept alive?