So, my fist English Behind The Songs post is about Citizen Erased, one of my peronal favourites.
About Citizen Erased
"It's an expression of what it feels like to be questioned. I spend more time than most people being asked about purpose, and it's a strange feeling. I don't really have the answers and I have to respond on the knowledge I have obtained so far, but the problem is that it gets printed, and something else has come along that's made you completely disagree with what you said". - Matthew Bellamy
It could also be a reference to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which citizens are erased and lies control society. It was written around a drum beat that Dom created.
The first live performance of Citizen Erased had the outro played on guitar rather than keyboard. The keyboard outro was introduced at least as early as the 12th April 2001 - no recording exists between the first performance and then.
A different riff replaced the guitar solo towards the middle of the song during the Absolution Tour.
Citizen Erased is the only song where the 7 String E Manson is used.
For the week starting 9th July 2007, some members of Muselive.com and other fansites attempted to get Citizen Erased into the UK charts. It eventually reached position No 122. Jesting about the song's popularity three years later, Matthew Bellamy commented "[...] so we've got to change our website I think to uh— from Muse.mu to CitizenErased.com", before performing it within Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
During the Resistance Tour in Sydney on the 9th of December, Matt dedicated "Citizen Arrested" to Julian Assange, the Australian WikiLeaks founder who had been arrested in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences just days earlier before playing Citizen Erased.
My Opinion:
I really think this is one of the best songs ever written. For some reason, I can listen to this over and over again without getting bored. I really love the instrumental part between the last '... So free' and 'Wash me away'.
The first part of the song is pretty hard and loud, but it slowly changes into a beautiful lullaby-like song. Muse should make more stuff like that.
I also think it's totally genius that a bunch of fans actually got the song into the UK charts... We should try it again once, lmao x]
Lyrics:
Break me in, Teach us to cheat And to lie, and cover up What shouldn't be shared And the truth's unwinding Scraping away at my mind Please stop asking me to describe For one moment I wish you'd hold your stage With no feelings at all Open-minded I'm sure I used to be so free Self-expressed Exhausting for all to see and to be What you want and what you need And the truth's unwinding Scraping away at my mind Please stop asking me to describe For one moment I wish you'd hold your stage With no feelings at all Open-minded I'm sure I used to be so free For one moment I wish you'd hold your stage With no feelings at all Open-minded I'm sure I used to be so free Wash me away Clean your body of me Erase all the memories They'll only bring us pain And I've seen all I'll ever need
Alternatively, the line:
Exhausting for all to see and to be
is sometimes be changed to:
Exhausting for all to see I still want to be
Music Video:
I couldn't resist posting the second video too, since I was there on the 19th of June. Teehee.
See you next time!
♣ Gasoline Diamond ♣
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