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sunburnacoustic · 1 year

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Musical and Lyrical themes on The Handler

Matt and Dom on Radio X with John Kennedy, talking about the writing of The Handler.

The Handler contains a mellotron on the chorus and a church organ (!!), "but all that's just in the background" according to Matt. The musical essence of the piece is three mates together in a room (Matt's basement) jamming together like it was when Muse had started. It's Dom's favourite song on the album and the essence of Muse's "back to our roots" efforts on Drones. Dark, slow, heavy.

The production style is similar to Origin of Symmetry or Absolution.

Lyrically it's a lot darker - here Matt goes into the books he read on CIA brainwashing and mind-control operations from the 1940s to the 70s, that he calls "the CIA picking up where Nazi Germany left off".

He also explains the song in context of the narrative of the album, with Matt/Mary gaining awareness of being exploited or controlled, and that being the beginning of their resistance and fight back against "dark forces— in real life, in their head, or wherever you want it to be: I've tried to keep the album a little bit ambiguous so it's not completely in the military world, the fantasy world or the psychology world". Muse really write songs that you can take and make your own, which is why so many people connect with them so strongly.

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excavatinglizard · 6 months

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Shoutout to my dad for being the funniest person I know

#mitski #dumb shit i do #lesbian #I'm turning reblogs back on but you all have to be nice to each other or you're losing Lesbian Dad privileges #would like to add that mitski is an incredible writer and lyricist and so much more than sad lesbian music.#I am. however. a sad lesbian who is haunted by said lyrics and writing

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nonebinary-leftbeef · 10 months

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DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

#i've been listening to icarus by bastille #and for some reason my brain fills in 'this is how it feels to take a fall' as 'this is how it feels to take off all your skin'#and like fuck man #and I KNOW that’s technically not a misheard lyric but my post my rules cope #anyway my line now #also probably phrased this poorly but its ok #im allowed to be incomprehensible #as a treat #and then fuckin #from we sink by of monsters and men #the original line was 'please look away dont look at me'#and i kept hearing it as 'please learn a way to look at me'#anyway #shoving this post in the queue but please be aware that i am writing it very late at night #q

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lucidloving · 28 days

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Girlpool—Before the World Was Big // memorial bench quoting Toni Morrison's Sula // @inanotherunivrse // Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You // Zadie Smith, Swing Time // Fall Out Boy—The Kids Aren't Alright // Audrey Emmett // Mikko Harvey, "For M" // Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi) // Langston Hughes, "Poem"

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whendidmythoughtsgocrazy · 2 months

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One day I will stop falling in love with you. Until I do, I'll be thinking of you.

k.b. // laufey, philharmonia orchestra - let you break my heart again

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bahoreal · 1 year

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kids these days who are fans of fall out boy and can just read the lyrics on spotify or whatever. do you know how lucky you are. when i was a lad you listened to an illegally burnt cd, heard a nonsensical string of syllables, and listened to it 100 times until you thought you know what was said. and then you got ahold of an album sleeve with lyrics and read the lyrics. and realise you were absolutely nowhere close.

#fall out boy #'the friction in your jeans' when i read those were the lyrics i wanted to throw things #thats not what he said but for me mishearing lyrics #that's not what i heard !!!!#fob write gorgeous lyrics. not that i know wtf theyre saying

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stoopidstapler · 9 months

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SO IVE BEEN GOIN INSANE SINCE THIS TRAILER DROPPED. JUST. SIMON. SIMON. SIMON.

#simon petrikov #fionna and cake #adventure time #goin insane over him #thers no words to describe how im feelin #i wish i could draw somehtin better but i am goin INSANE #FINALLY. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. we are being FED.#ALSO?? HOW THEY SHOWED HIM EXACTLY WHEN THE LYRICS GO ''WHATS WRONG WITH ME'. LIKE HELLO???????#ive seen so many good theories PLEASE GOD WRITE FICS I AM BEGGIN I LL DRAW U FANART BLS HEL P #IDK WOT IM GONNA DO FOR A WHOLE MONTH #SOMEONE KNOCK ME OUT TIL THE 31ST. HIBERNATE ME. HELP.#also i need to put it out there the first thing i thought when i saw this trailer was simon is tryina rewrite fionna and cake #which is why their world keeps changin so much? idk idk #ive seen so many different ideas and they are all so good please help #ALSO GOD. THIS MAN IS JUST GOIN THRU IT. AND ITS ONLY BEEN A QUICK TRAILER.#im sorry for so many tags idk where to put these help #maybe i should make an actual blog for like. whatever. n reblogs. help.

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mercury-and-scry · 1 month

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I'm just Gale

where I see love she sees a snail

#my art #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate gale #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #to be clear I did not write those lyrics his voice actor got cameoed to do them I think

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p0nur4k · 1 month

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#spilled ink #quotes #poem #writers #cytat o ludziach #love #cytat z piosenki #life quotes #song lyrics #my writing #overthinker #overthinking #love quote tumblr #i miss him #i miss you #books

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lesbicosmos · 11 months

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when hozier said "if im a pagan of the good times, my lover's the sunlight" and when hozier said "no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her" and when hozier said "i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door" and when hozier said "heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i" and when hozier said-

#this man just writes about women like women write about women yk #also yes ive used two of these lyrics as sapphic fic titles #hozier #take me to church #work song #from eden #francesca #unreal unearth #sapphic #lesbian #sarahs having a Lesbian Moment

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kingofmyborrowedheart · 21 days

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Begging swifties to understand that Taylor didn’t write reputation and Lover with the knowledge of how the relationship was going to end and that trying to “excavate” those albums for evidence to prove a specific theory as to why it ended is not how they should be viewed. Taylor wrote those songs feeling a very specific way because that’s what she was experiencing and she is now reflecting on them with hindsight and relates to them differently than when she first created them. These conflicting emotions can exist; how she views it now doesn’t diminish how she felt about it when she first released it.

#taylor swift #don’t know if I’m expressing myself as properly and as articulate as I’d like #but both of the emotions she’s feeling about the songs can coexist #like little lover can still be a love song that’s what it was for her for a while #but she can also look back and say ‘oh maybe this wasn’t the best’ but it doesn’t void what it was originally #like I keep seeing things like oh she wrote this lyric in lover about him not showing up and it’s like no that’s not right #like yes you can see her underlying anxieties and fears in those songs because she was open about them #it doesn’t mean she predicted how it would end #there was a point in time where she thought this man was the one and would write about feeling that way

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mournfulroses · 2 months

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Agnes Obel, from a song titled "Familiar," featured in her album "Citizen of Glass,"

#lyrics #music #agnes obel #familiar #words #love #fragments #quotes #lyric collection #writings #p

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not2menotifitsyou · 8 months

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Car seat headrest // Richard Siken // Sotce // Larissa Pham // Amy Winehouse // Katherine Fabrizio // car seat headrest

#web weaving #mine #lyrics #writing #richard siken #car seat headrest #amy winehouse #sotce #larissa pham #Katherine fabrizio #leaving

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natashaaromanova · 2 months

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all's fair in l o v e and p o e t r y.

#taylor swift #my edit #lyrics #ttpd #the tortured poets department #tortured poets department #ts11 #networkthirteen #tsedit #lyrics about poetry #lyrics about writing #ts and art #art #tswiftedit #tslyrics #tscreators

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lucidloving · 25 days

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D. Alan Holmes, Enlightenment // Signet Amenti // @cryptonature // Alan Wilsom Watts // Evan M. Cohen, "Oceans" // Nikita Gill // @pauladoodles // Julian Gough, "Minecraft End Poem" // Sleeping At Last—Saturn

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whendidmythoughtsgocrazy · 1 month

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If you're telling all your friends how you don't need me, then why you tryna keep me?

k.b. // jordy - delete me

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