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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.
Yes, the music video does make sense, as it premiered some months after the US-led coalition invaded Iraq.