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The song is only acapella with | The song is only an acapella track with multiple layers of Matt singing. It is the first Muse track to feature vocals only, with no instruments or electronic elements. Message-wise, Matthew summarizes his point of the album Drones and the whole album ends with an "Amen".<ref> | ||
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The song | The song is a rearranged version of "Sanctus and Benedictus" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, to which Matt added the lyrics. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E23LSKpJS3M?t=4m7s watch]) | ||
Matt said about the song that: "It's a lament for the victims, it ends on this ghostly chorus of the forgotten, they will never see justice, and they have been killed by a robot, there's something inherently tragic about humanity there".<ref> | Matt said about the song that: "It's a lament for the victims, it ends on this ghostly chorus of the forgotten, they will never see justice, and they have been killed by a robot, there's something inherently tragic about humanity there".<ref> | ||
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title=Game of Drones: Album seven finds Muse at their ridiculous best... | date=2015-05-20 | fetch=2015-05-20 | desc=Album Review| auth=Gavin Haynes | pub=NME | url=http://www.nme.com/features/muse-interview-on-modern-warfare-the-conspiracies-that-drive-new-album-drones-and-matt-bellamys-nigh?recache=2&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=muse | dom=nme.com| type=ext | title=Game of Drones: Album seven finds Muse at their ridiculous best... | date=2015-05-20 | fetch=2015-05-20 | desc=Album Review| auth=Gavin Haynes | pub=NME | url=http://www.nme.com/features/muse-interview-on-modern-warfare-the-conspiracies-that-drive-new-album-drones-and-matt-bellamys-nigh?recache=2&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=muse | dom=nme.com| type=ext | ||
}}</ref> | }}</ref> He also said that he thinks the track will surprise listeners, since it has nothing to do with the current music output aswell as the style of the album. | ||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
Revision as of 12:53, 10 June 2015
| Muse song | |
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| Name | Drones |
| Album/single | Drones |
| Length | 2:51 |
| Alternative titles | |
| First live performance | |
| Latest live performance | |
| Recorded | 2014/2015 - The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, Canada |
| Writer/composer | Matthew Bellamy |
| Producer | Muse, Robert "Mutt" Lange |
| Song Nav | ||||
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| The Globalist | < | Drones | > | |
The song is only an acapella track with multiple layers of Matt singing. It is the first Muse track to feature vocals only, with no instruments or electronic elements. Message-wise, Matthew summarizes his point of the album Drones and the whole album ends with an "Amen".[1]
The song is a rearranged version of "Sanctus and Benedictus" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, to which Matt added the lyrics. (watch)
Matt said about the song that: "It's a lament for the victims, it ends on this ghostly chorus of the forgotten, they will never see justice, and they have been killed by a robot, there's something inherently tragic about humanity there".[2] He also said that he thinks the track will surprise listeners, since it has nothing to do with the current music output aswell as the style of the album.
Lyrics
Killed by drones
My mother, my father, My sister and my brother My son and my daughter killed by drones
Our lives between your fingers Can you feel anything? Are you dead inside? Now you can kill From the safety of your home with drones
Amen
References
- ↑ L'édition du Soir by Philippe Richard. (2015-05-18). Que vaut le nouvel album de Muse?. Ouest-france. Retrieved 2015-05-18 from ouest-france.fr/.
- ↑ Gavin Haynes. (2015-05-20). Game of Drones: Album seven finds Muse at their ridiculous best.... NME. Retrieved 2015-05-20 from nme.com.