Animals Lyrics

Lyric discussion by antiklaus 

Cover art for Animals lyrics by Muse

As with all things, Muse, there is a deeper meaning than the surface, and usually related to the New World Order. If you are unaware of what this means, it's related to a group of powerful men who met on Jeckyl Island, Georgia in 1913 and established a powerful organization bent on economic dictatorship of the world.

In the first verse, they are calling out the various individuals who are part of the New World Order elite - bankers, stock market analysts, business executives, and corporate heads. They are calling them animals for being out of control and striking at those who are weak and poor. They describe how they function - to analyze people, advertise to them, and expand their operations to seize even more power. They hint in "bend more rules" at the infiltration of corporations into our governments across the world. And in "buy yourself an island" they are pointing out the incredible wealth and hypocrisy of the elites - who will make millions homeless to provide themselves a haven of opulent safety.

The second verse jumps into the head of the elites by invoking "We" - and hinting perhaps at our own responsibility to some degree because we don't act against them. The "blood on the streets" is a reference to Wall Street and the Stock Market, responsible for widespread grief across the planet - and how they are parasitic creatures who will even (in some cases) prey on one another in the means of profit.

The last verse is telling the elites to do the world a favor and just kill themselves.

Song Meaning

Jeckyl Island...yes the place where the US government helped assure that it would never go bankrupt. If you want to change this, then become rich and gain influence. It is hard, but back then there is the fact that all of those men that met there were poor at one time and changed that themselves.

I know the US government will go bankrupt with the policies we have today, and they do make terrible decisions and don't look for the obvious signs, but this is a different situation now then it was back then. If those people don't meet...

My Opinion

great analysis man. Spot on