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| Name = Exogenesis: Symphony
*Part I: Overture
*Part II: Cross Pollination
*Part III: Redemption
| Album = [[The Resistance (album)|The Resistance]] <small>(9, 10, 11)</small>
| Length = 12:51
*4:18 <small>(Part I: Overture)</small>
*3:56 <small>(Part II: Cross Pollination)</small>
*4:37 <small>(Part III: Redemption)</small>
| AltTitles = {{drop
|Symphony
|''Orchestral Monster'' 
|''Symphonic Monster''
}}
| First = -
| Latest = -
| Recorded = Lake Como and Milan, Italy, 2008-2009
| Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]], [[Dominic Howard]], [[Christopher Wolstenholme]]
| Producer = Muse
| Chart position = -
}}
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==Description==
"Exogenesis: Symphony" is the last song on ''[[The Resistance (album)|The Resistance]]'',<ref name="qanda23">
{{cite |
 title= Question 23 | desc=Muse Q&A | date=2008-11-22 | auth=[[Matthew Bellamy]] via Muse Answers | fetch=2008-11-22 | pub=Official Message Board | url=http://board.muse.mu/showthread.php?t=57855 | dom=board.muse.mu | type=ext
}}</ref> and is split into three four-minute tracks, each separately named. It features an orchestra of "about 40 musicians" throughout, being described by Matt as "almost purely classical in style"<ref name="mojo200907">{{cite/mojo200907}}</ref> The song tells the story of humanity leaving a destructive Earth behind to populate elsewhere in the Universe.<ref name="nme20090722"/>

===Part I: Overture===
The first part of the song starts off mellow.<ref name="qanda6">
{{cite |
 title= Question 6 | desc=Muse Q&A | date=2008-11-28 | auth=[[Dominic Howard]] via Muse Answers | fetch=2008-11-22 | pub=Official Message Board | url=http://board.muse.mu/showthread.php?t=57872 | dom=board.muse.mu | type=ext
}}</ref>

===Part II: Cross Pollination===
In the Muse Q&A in November 2008, Dominic Howard stated that the song would change genres throughout, indicating a significantly different middle section.<ref name="qanda6"/>

===Part III: Redemption===
The third part of the song will be "very heavy indeed".<ref name="qanda6"/>

==Additional information==
The term exogenesis is the technical name for panspermia, the hypothesis that life is seeded across the universe from other sources, for example, arriving to Earth on comets, hence "cross pollination".

The song was first mentioned in March 2008 as a "15-minute space-rock solo"<ref name="nme20080312">
{{cite |
 title= Muse: next album to have '15-minute space-rock solo' | desc=NME news article | date=2008-03-12 | pub=NME | url=http://www.nme.com/news/muse/35085 | dom=nme.com | type=ext
}}</ref> and mentioned by the band numerous times after that. Prior to that, it had been alluded to by Matt in 2007 as "a few bits and pieces that we kind of set to one side that were ... a little bit too progressive and symphonic for [''[[Black Holes and Revelations]]'']", suggesting that the band may have first attempted to record it in 2005.<ref name="jnd20070802">{{cite/jayandthedoctor20070802}}</ref> 

The orchestral elements of the song are arranged by Matthew Bellamy. He stated he wanted to do this himself as he "never wanted to collaborate with a string arranger as they may make it 'theirs'".<ref name="qanda23"/>

==Lyrics==
''Incomplete''
<pre>
...the edge of all our fears

We are counting on you,
It's up to you,
Spread out close to the stars,
You must rescue us all,
Spread...

Let's start over again,
Why can't we start it over again?

... we'll get it right
</pre>

==References==
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