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It’s just about some hot girl, a chance meeting someone who you have a connection with. There’s something a little bit dark about her, and it’s asking why we’re so desperately attracted to something of a dark nature

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Screenager is a modern teenager being brought up by the screen who develops a distorted image of their body because of pictures in magazines and because technology is rejecting the physical bodies we live in. It’s also a bit about people who cut themselves because I used to have friends who did it and I didn’t know why. I tried to grasp that it’s needing something quite brutal to remind you what your body’s about

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This stems from hallucinations I had of triangular blades cutting into the back of my head. It’s a feeling that information is being infiltrated into your brain. I’d seen a TV programme about psychological warfare and how the government could be controlling us using a type of radiation, sending pulses to our brains. So micro cuts are cuts into your being that you can’t see or avoid.

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The third track off of Absolution, and the second single. It was one of the last songs recorded for the album. The single’s B-Side is The Groove.

Like most of Muse songs, it’s a song adressed to another, but this another and the narrator are both unintentified. The overall lyricism of the song is pretty vague, but we clearly see that Bellamy describes here a kind of weird, attracting, but unhealthy relationship.
The lyrics are still in the general theme of the album, which are the apocalypse, the feeling of emergency, madness/crazyness, and finally religion.
Althrough this song is probably not about religion, you can definitely feel the madness/illness of the narrator and the feeling of emergency.

The music video, even if pretty cool, doesn’t really makes any sense. It takes place in a large room with some kind of military chiefs sitting behind it. During the choruses, pre-choruses and the bridge, they dance around and become kind of crazy, which links with this theme of the song and the album.
The scene is also an obvious reference to the War Room from the classic Kubrick’s movie Doctor Strangelove, in which dignitaries are trying to prevent the launching of a nuclear warhead during the Cold War.

This can be linked to the feeling of emergency, very present in the movie, but the explaination that the director of the music video (John Hillcoat) choosed this decor because it looked cool has most probabilities.

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This song has a much deeper and darker meaning than what it looks like.
The song appears to be about the effect of human frailty on a person’s view of themselves, at birth we are new to the world, free of any outside influence, from that moment onwards our lives, our personalities are moulded and dictated by the actions of those who surround us, it is from them we learn everything from morals and values through to speech patterns and gestures.

This is one of Muse’s most epic bangers, clocking in at 7:21.
Years later, Muse produced The Globalist as the sequel to this song. It appears in the 2015 concept album Drones.

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Again, that’s about the path evolution can take like ‘New Born’. There’s the good side and the bad side; abandoning all individuality, becoming a collective whole via cables, and genetically engineering bodies that can exist out in space, or the loss of individualism.

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This song is featured in Guitar Hero 5.

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This one really rocks out, it’s really full-on but the lyrics are just plain negative, just pure anger and disregard for affection, the opposite of ‘’Bliss’’. It’s actually linked to a book I read called ‘Hyper Space’, which is about how all the laws of nature and physics combine in the 10th Dimension in pure mathematics to form one main theme

Matt Bellamy

This song is part of a double A-Side single with Feeling Good. It also has two B-Sides: a cover of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths and an original song, Shine.

A slower version of this song titled Hyper Chondriac Music exists as the last track on Hullabaloo, disk one.

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Space dementia is a disease characterized by mental instability and irrational behavior brought on after the individual enters outer space.
NASA has only seen mild cases of space dementia as of yet, and as a result, some have suggested that the disease does not actually exist. However, due to the small sample size of people who have spent time in outer space, experts have not completely ruled out the existence of the disease. Regardless, there is a protocol set up for dealing with a psychological emergency in space.

Here Matt means that the feeling when he looks at the person he is singing about is similar to Space Dementia disorder. He is in awe of them, I wouldn’t call it love since he states that they make him sick but he extremely admires and respects them in a way he can’t explain.

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This song is about someone admiring somebody so bad that their love becomes envying.

Matt Bellamy stated that this is his favorite song out of Origin of Symmetry.

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It’s about a semi-fear of the evolution of technology, and how in reality it’s destroying all humanity. My fear is that we can’t control it because it’s moving faster than we are, so the songs setting myself in a location in the future where the body is no longer important and everyone’s plugged into a network. The opening line is ‘link it to the world’, so it’s connecting yourself on a worldwide scale and being born into another reality, in a way it’s on the same lines as the film The Matrix, but we weren’t intending on copying their idea on technology and how it has evolved.

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