City Of Delusion Lyrics & Video

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• Shervin says

  My favourite song on the album. It shows Muse's spanishy influence. The lyrics are the best on the album in my opinion, and it works well with the music. Thank you Muse!

  posted 23 July 2006 - Report

• Steve says

  awsome song bass solo rox

  posted 01 August 2006 - Report

• CELIA says

  Hello everybody I'm from Mexico & I think this song is the best on the BH&R

  posted 06 August 2006 - Report

• Noah says

  Does anyone know what this song is about

  posted 07 August 2006 - Report

• Sir Zidan says

  i didn,t caught even a wrd...and the lyrics is so diff from the song...i dunno bt STEVE sounds as a baby lisping...so i can,t catch anything @ all...plz help me!
  SIR

  posted 13 August 2006 - Report

• kea says

  heya. i love this song sooo much. will have a stab at what the lyrics mean:
  i know a guy that went to school with matt B, who said he's really spiritual person, so im guessing this is about the section of the revalation (in the bible) where the wild beast destroys the harlot babylon the Great (world government agencies including the UN destroy False Religion)

  posted 16 August 2006 - Report

• kea says

  'shield your beliefs, touch the divine as we fall in line' sounds like when they announce no more religion, thats what the people who secretly still believe will be doing, while they 'fall in line' with what the authorities demand of them.

  posted 16 August 2006 - Report

• kea says

  vs 2 and 3 describe the city of delusion which is the governments etc who believe they have the power over the people, the 'all seeing eye' so-to-speak, but as he says 'you're not divine' and will eventually be fought against because they ultimately are to blame for whatever it is that is each persons particular problem with society..
  aghhh that was deep. maybe i'm wrong and its about blackholes not revelations ;)

  posted 16 August 2006 - Report

• josh says

  i think it's "i will avenge" rather than "i will fight". thanks for lyrics though.

  posted 25 September 2006 - Report

• Infidel13 says

  "All your theories turn to dust" looks to me like a critique of creationism and religious restrictions on science (Coppernicus comes to mind), claiming that creationism is doomed to failure as it is overwhelmed by evidence against it. Alternately, the word "theories" really sounds more like "fairies" to me, and perhaps this is an attack on supernaturalism, likening such beings as angels and demons to mythical fairies.

  posted 09 January 2007 - Report

• Infidel13 says

  The "city of delusion" is religion and religiously motivated politics, like the religious right of American politics. "I will avenge, justify my reasons with your blood" seems to reference religious fanatacism and Islamic terrorism. "Guzzl[ing] and squander[ing] what's left" seems to refer to environmental policies motizated by a deep-rooted belief that a God will pop up and end the world in a few decades so there is no reason to conserve anything.

  posted 09 January 2007 - Report

• Infidel13 says

  "Do not deny that you live and let die" is a reference to the hypocrisy of American religion, which advocates compassion for the poor, etc. while massive economic inequality is still present and very little is successfully done about it, yet people refuse to admit this fact. Frankly, I believe that this song is directed at the flaws of religion. But, then again, it's certainly open to interpretation (now if that doesn't sound like a Theologian, I don't know what does).

  posted 09 January 2007 - Report

• Jake says

  In the third paragraph instead of "Break these walls down," it says "Dreak." Great song though.

  posted 15 March 2008 - Report

• Manel says

  In my interpretation this lyric, or part of it, is about the illegal imigration problems that the EUA and Europe face. The first verses fit well into this interpretation, as well as the music, in the case of the mexican immigration in the EUA.
  the walls are real in the Mexico-EUA frontier.

  But who knows? this just my contribution.
  I found this band a bit late, but I am liking them alot. Well played music, nice lyrics, good alternative rock.

  posted 05 April 2008 - Report

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