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Muse song
Name Feeling Good
Album/single
Length 3:19
Alternative titles -
First live performance 23rd November 1999
Latest live performance -
Recorded 2001
Writer/composer Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse
Producer John Leckie
Chart position 24

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Description

The most popular Muse cover, and covered because of Matt's mum liking the song so much. The song was used by Nescafé for their advertisement but without the band's permission. The band denied them the use of the song because they didn't believe in having their music used to advertise supermarket products. Nescafé withdrew that version for a different version. Muse were subsequently paid settlement money, which they donated to Oxfam.[1]

Additional information

Feeling Good was written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, though made famous when performed by the legendary jazz artist Nina Simone.

This cover was commonly played live between 2000 and 2003, but wasn't played between Laugardalshöll 2003 and Southside Festival 2006. It was once again played regularly live from 2006 onwards.

This song was played on Spanish TVE:Radio3 as a live recording, in which, after the second verse, Matt Bellamy started swearing in time with the music for two lines; they were told not to swear which angered Muse as they never swore in their music until then, so they swore extensively. The video for this can be found here. Muse have been banned from Radio 3 ever since. During the performance, he sang "Fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking hell! Fucking, fucking little, fucking, fucking fuckers, yeah!".

In live performances, Matt sings the third verse through a megaphone.

The song was featured on Gabriele Muccino's Seven Pounds, starring Will Smith.

Alternative versions

A radio edit of Feeling Good with clean vocals on the third verse and can be found on the second UK Hyper Music/Feeling Good promo CD (catalogue number 'MUSE 19'). An alternative instrumental section of the song is looped as background music on the audio set-up menu on the H.A.A.R.P. DVD. There is also a guitar version that was played on BBC session in 1999 (also known as "diferent take session")

Lyrics

Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Reeds drifting on by you know how I feel
It's a new dawn it's a new day it's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good

Fish in the sea you know how I feel
River running free you know how I feel
Blossom in the trees you know how I feel
It's a new dawn it's a new day it's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good

Dragonflies out in the sun
You know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies are all having fun
You know what I mean
Sleep in peace
When the day is done
And this old world is a new world and a bold world for me

Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Yeah freedom is mine
And you know how I feel
It's a new dawn it's a new day it's a new life for me

Butterflies, ooh
Oh, ooh ...

Ooooh...
Freer than you...
Ooooh...

Feeling good.

References

  1. Muse: The Making of Origin of Symmetry (2007-11-07). Retrieved from Crikey. Need a domain here, kthnxbye.

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