Exo-Politics Lyrics

Lyric discussion by caitsith01 

Cover art for Exo-Politics lyrics by Muse

I think it might be "When the Zetas fill the skies" - Zetas being a UFO folk-lore race of aliens supposedly come to Earth to provide guidance/spiritual enhancement/genetic enhancement.

It's also "Will our leaders tell us why"

The other lyric I think might be wrong is "fully loaded satellites" not 'solenoids' (which doesn't really make sense). Not so sure about this one.

This would fit with the title of the song - 'exo' meaning outside (Greek, I believe). So exo-politics would be politics from the outside, or on the outside.

I have two ideas of what this song is about.

One is that it's about the leaders of society using people's faith/belief in aliens and other paranormal phenomena when in fact they are simply being manipulated by the same leaders who they look to for guidance. Hence 'exo-politics' is the political system that exits outside our normal understanding of the system - but really the phenomena we see is just "our leaders in disguise".

The other is that we (manking) are off on some intergalactic journey as beings of pure energy ("taking nothing but our minds") where we will be "carried through the centuries" to some other place.

Whatever it's about, it seems that the protagonist is waiting for the secrets of the event to be revealed - either the political conspiracy to be revealed, or the great migration to occur, or something else - "I'm waiting patiently/and I'll wait for the sign."