 Genius Meanings
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Muse – The 2nd Law: Isolated System
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“It’s the noise of humanity on a tiny planet in the middle of nothing,” says Matt. “Hanging around space would be so peaceful and quiet and suddenly you come to this little blip
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Muse – The 2nd Law: Unsustainable
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This song applies the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, stating the eventual increase of entropy in isolated systems, to the world economy. Capitalism necessitates infinite growth as a
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Muse – Panic Station
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Another single from The 2nd Law. Very funky, with hooks full of falsetto. The theme of the song is you need to go and achieve your dreams, no matter how hard it is.
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Muse – Survival
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First single out of The 2nd Law, “Survival” was the official theme of London Olympic Games in 2012.
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Muse – Animals
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This song, as the video shows, is about the bloodthirsty capitalists who will get what’s coming to them for eating the public alive.
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Muse – Supremacy
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‘Supremacy’ sees the band going to “absurd levels,” according to Matt. Spiralling swamp blues of the track builds to a climax of orchestral hysteria as Matt orates a terrifying
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Muse – Prelude
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[Instrumental]
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Muse – Big Freeze
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[Verse 1] / Healed (Healed), or are you still just reeling? / Are you fine (Fine), have you found a way to escape? / Are you here (Here) just because I need you? / Can we hole up
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Muse – Liquid State
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This song was written by Muse’s bassist Chris Wolstenholme. The lyrics were mainly driven by his alcohol abuse in the past and how it affected him on a consistent basis. The song’s
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Muse – Save Me
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“Save Me” is the first song written and sung by bassist Chris Wolstenholme in the whole band’s catalogue, and it’s one of the only two to date, the second one being the following
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Muse – Follow Me
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“Follow Me” is the third single from The 2nd Law, released 7 December 2012.
The song is widely recognised as an ‘ode to fatherhood’. This is reinforced by the beginning, which
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Muse – Madness
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Track 2 of their 6th LP, The 2nd Law. According to Bellamy, the song was written after a fight with his then-fiance Kate Hudson:
You’ve had a fight with your girlfriend and she
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The Cinematic Orchestra (Ft. Patrick Watson) – To Build a Home
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“To Build a Home” is the second single from The Cinematic Orchestra’s fourth album Ma Fleur. Despite being the opening track on the album, it served as the closing track on the
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Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Defence of Poetry
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Date: 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840.
The essay was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock’s article ‘The Four Ages of Poetry’, which had been
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Robert C. Tucker – The Marx-Engels Reader ( Chap. 2 )
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Wage Labour and Capital / KARL MARX / Shortly after adumbrating the materialist
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Frantz Fanon (Ft. Homi K Bhabha, Jean-Paul Sartre & Richard Philcox) – The Wretched Of The Earth (Chapter II)
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Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity / These reflections on violence have made us realize the frequent discrepancy between the cadres of the
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Lasagna Cat (Ft. John Blyth Barrymore & Philip Glass) – 07/27/1978
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When I was 18... 18 years old, I saw for the first time in my life... I saw an image of clarity. I saw a comic strip... a three panel comic strip that, though simple as it seemed
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Marcel Proust – A Fresh Light (Chap. 4)
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CHAPTER FOUR / A FRESH LIGHT UPON ROBERT DE SAINT-LOUP / “Oh, it is unheard-of,” said my mother. “Listen
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Marcel Proust – An afternoon party(Chap. 3)
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CHAPTER III / AN AFTERNOON PARTY AT THE HOUSE OF THE PRINCESSE DE GUERMANTES
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Marcel Proust – Life with Albertine(Chap. 1.2)
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Sometimes I put out the light before she came in. It was in the darkness, barely guided by the glow of a smouldering log, that she lay down by my side. My hands, my cheeks alone
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Marcel Proust – Seascape, with Frieze of Girls (Chapter 3)
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SEASCAPE, WITH FRIEZE OF GIRLS / DINNERS AT RIVEBELLE — ENTER ALBERTINE / That day, as for some days past
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Marcel Proust – Combray [Chapter 2]
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COMBRAY / Combray at a distance, from a twenty-mile radius, as we used to see it from the railway when we arrived there every
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Ralph Waldo Emerson – The Poet
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“The Poet,” written between 1841 and 1843, is not about “men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in meter, but of the true poet.”
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Marcel Proust – A Visit from Albertine (Chapter 2)
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CHAPTER TWO / A VISIT FROM ALBERTINE — PROSPECT OF RICH BRIDES FOR CERTAIN FRIENDS OF SAINT-LOUP — THE WIT OF THE GUERMANTES, AS DISPLAYED
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Robert C. Tucker – The Marx-Engels Reader (Chap. 2.4: "The Grundrisse")
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The Grundrisse / KARL MARX / Comprising seven notebooks written in 1857-58
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Marcel Proust – Chapter 3
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CHAPTER THREE / THE SORROWS OF M. DE CHARLUS. — HIS SHAM DUEL. — THE STATIONS ON THE ‘TRANSATLANTIC.’— WEARY OF ALBERTINE I DECIDE TO BREAK WITH HER / I was dropping with sleep. I
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