A truly wonderful song, but it is NOT about a woman or sex - which is much too shallow for M. Bellamy.
It's about the masks we all wear (male - violence, female - beautiful) as opposed to those deeper secret (undisclosed) desires within (anyone's) heart - the true desires to be genuine, as buried under the more obvious and deceptive kind that really should not be there, such as demanding "demons from (our) past".
The males among us wear the (false) mask of physical threat (violence), and the females; the need to be outwardly "beautiful" - both in order to "trick lovers" that we are sexy - at once, both 'wicked and divine", when only "the innocence is (real) mine" - but undisclosed.
Indeed we are all being encouraged to look deeper, for that inner beauty, which is "not just a mask".
"I know you've suffered" is according the environment today in which we live - "It's cold and loveless" which causes us all to "suffer", resulting in "want to hide" from the world's harshness. So we develop an inner "violence" we imagine will protect us, but really needs to be "soothed" and "reconciled" - before we can think about developing the GENUINE 'me' within.
I made an account jsut to reply to this post. Dude spot on interpretation, Gave me the chills to read honestly, and yes any song about sex would be too shallow for Matthew to write. which made your interpretation so much better
I made an account jsut to reply to this post. Dude spot on interpretation, Gave me the chills to read honestly, and yes any song about sex would be too shallow for Matthew to write. which made your interpretation so much better
I agree. Matt is not shallow and a song about sex or anything like that would imply he is. Not to mention it would turn away thousands of fans. One of the many reasons I listen to Muse is because none of the songs are about sex or booze or money. You just can't find anything pure in today's society. And when people find a song about intimate relationships they squeal and are all "Ooh! They're kissing" And crap like that. None of them are mature enough. I'm 12 and I'm already more mature than most 30 year old people!...
I agree. Matt is not shallow and a song about sex or anything like that would imply he is. Not to mention it would turn away thousands of fans. One of the many reasons I listen to Muse is because none of the songs are about sex or booze or money. You just can't find anything pure in today's society. And when people find a song about intimate relationships they squeal and are all "Ooh! They're kissing" And crap like that. None of them are mature enough. I'm 12 and I'm already more mature than most 30 year old people! Golly! Some think right away this song is about sex. Well, it isn't. If you ponder it, you find it is a sad song. It makes me cry! He loves her despite her faults and wants to heal her from past relationships that have obviously scared her! And when he says:
Please me
Show me how it's done
Tease me
You are the one
Most think: sex. They are wrong. Please me, meaning let me be with you. Show me how it's done, meaning tell me how not to hurt you because I don't want you hurt. Tease me, meaning she lets him in, then shuts him out. You are the one. That one's just self explanatory.
A truly wonderful song, but it is NOT about a woman or sex - which is much too shallow for M. Bellamy.
It's about the masks we all wear (male - violence, female - beautiful) as opposed to those deeper secret (undisclosed) desires within (anyone's) heart - the true desires to be genuine, as buried under the more obvious and deceptive kind that really should not be there, such as demanding "demons from (our) past".
The males among us wear the (false) mask of physical threat (violence), and the females; the need to be outwardly "beautiful" - both in order to "trick lovers" that we are sexy - at once, both 'wicked and divine", when only "the innocence is (real) mine" - but undisclosed.
Indeed we are all being encouraged to look deeper, for that inner beauty, which is "not just a mask".
"I know you've suffered" is according the environment today in which we live - "It's cold and loveless" which causes us all to "suffer", resulting in "want to hide" from the world's harshness. So we develop an inner "violence" we imagine will protect us, but really needs to be "soothed" and "reconciled" - before we can think about developing the GENUINE 'me' within.
I made an account jsut to reply to this post. Dude spot on interpretation, Gave me the chills to read honestly, and yes any song about sex would be too shallow for Matthew to write. which made your interpretation so much better
I made an account jsut to reply to this post. Dude spot on interpretation, Gave me the chills to read honestly, and yes any song about sex would be too shallow for Matthew to write. which made your interpretation so much better
I agree. Matt is not shallow and a song about sex or anything like that would imply he is. Not to mention it would turn away thousands of fans. One of the many reasons I listen to Muse is because none of the songs are about sex or booze or money. You just can't find anything pure in today's society. And when people find a song about intimate relationships they squeal and are all "Ooh! They're kissing" And crap like that. None of them are mature enough. I'm 12 and I'm already more mature than most 30 year old people!...
I agree. Matt is not shallow and a song about sex or anything like that would imply he is. Not to mention it would turn away thousands of fans. One of the many reasons I listen to Muse is because none of the songs are about sex or booze or money. You just can't find anything pure in today's society. And when people find a song about intimate relationships they squeal and are all "Ooh! They're kissing" And crap like that. None of them are mature enough. I'm 12 and I'm already more mature than most 30 year old people! Golly! Some think right away this song is about sex. Well, it isn't. If you ponder it, you find it is a sad song. It makes me cry! He loves her despite her faults and wants to heal her from past relationships that have obviously scared her! And when he says: Please me Show me how it's done Tease me You are the one Most think: sex. They are wrong. Please me, meaning let me be with you. Show me how it's done, meaning tell me how not to hurt you because I don't want you hurt. Tease me, meaning she lets him in, then shuts him out. You are the one. That one's just self explanatory.