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Muse — Sing For Absolution
Album: Absolution
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6.3

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Released: 2003
Length: 4:53
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Lips are turning blue
A kiss that can't renew
I only dream of you
My beautiful

Tiptoe to your room
A starlight in the gloom
I only dream of you
And you never knew

Sing for absolution
I will be singing
And falling from your grace

There's no where left to hide
In no one to confide
The truth burns deep inside
And will never die

Lips are turning blue
A kiss that can't renew
I only dream of you
My beautiful

Sing for absolution
I will be singing
And falling from your grace

Sing for absolution
I will be singing
And falling from your grace

Our wrongs remain unrectified
And our souls
Won't be exhumed
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Wonderful! And aged pretty well.
Posted 5 years ago by zanref    [ Reply ]
Make it stop.
Posted 8 years ago by Zachsdad    [ Reply ]
Horrible.
Posted 9 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
Well I don't care who it may sound like.....I like it.{#Moon}
Posted 9 years ago by dragon1952    [ Reply ]
Re: comparing one musician to another, Keith Richards said it best when he said there was only one original song ever made and it was by Adam and Eve. Everything else is copied from that!
Posted 9 years ago by SchoepTone    [ Reply ]
(Irony On)It´s so cool to hate mainstream,....{#Undecided}
Posted 9 years ago by aristoteles    [ Reply ]

so bad, its comical.


Posted 14 years ago by gormeister    [ Reply ]
<MUTE>
Posted 14 years ago by ZM_Herb    [ Reply ]
great melody,and the voice does sound a bit like Radiohead, the music is more like Queen....me thinks
Posted 15 years ago by cactus7709    [ Reply ]
 Rantipole wrote:

I really don't understand the Radiohead comparisons.


 

I do.  I react the same way to both of them —- dive for the mute button.

This tune is brutal.
Posted 15 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
 Rantipole wrote:

Not really a favorite of mine, but still a good song.

And I really don't understand the Radiohead comparisons.


 

I think this song should lay that comparison to rest. Radiohead is great, I love them mucho, but Muse is more rockin'.
Posted 15 years ago by lathyris    [ Reply ]
 F1 wrote:
Dreadful.
 

So true...
Posted 15 years ago by coolpeople_rule    [ Reply ]
Quite enjoyable in a morose kind of way; cool instrumentation and production.


Posted 15 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
...the comparisons are inevitable given the striking similarity to thom yorke's vocals in middle-era radiohead, but this is pretty good...
Posted 15 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
Dreadful.
Posted 15 years ago by F1    [ Reply ]

Not really a favorite of mine, but still a good song.

And I really don't understand the Radiohead comparisons.




Posted 15 years ago by Rantipole    [ Reply ]
 superfido wrote:
All this Yapping about who they sound like.   Yada yada yada. 

Why not just enjoy, or not enjoy the music for what it is, and stop with the pitiful comparisons the entire time. There are only so many notes and octives. Someone is bound to sound like someone.

 
Perfect!

Not only that, basically all musicians are influenced by other musicians in some sort of way, fashion or form.
Posted 15 years ago by coolpeople_rule    [ Reply ]
8/10, just for the cover.
Posted 15 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
Ponderous, derivative, and ultimately tedious.  I've known root canals that sound better than this.   
Posted 15 years ago by alux    [ Reply ]
Yep, absolution . . . that's what he needs after this song.  'Course, there is the little matter of appropriate penance first.
Posted 15 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
All this Yapping about who they sound like.   Yada yada yada. 

Why not just enjoy, or not enjoy the music for what it is, and stop with the pitiful comparisons the entire time. There are only so many notes and octives. Someone is bound to sound like someone.

Posted 15 years ago by superfido    [ Reply ]
Stop being so narrow-minded now peeps. Great song and AWESOME CD.
Posted 15 years ago by renegade_X    [ Reply ]
radio head is not fun
Posted 19 years ago by Giraffe    [ Reply ]
Geez... who squeezed this guy's gonads?
Posted 19 years ago by jberko    [ Reply ]
Heathen wrote:
STOP... TRYING .... TO..... BE .... RADIOHEAD!!!!!
AMEN!
Posted 19 years ago by mafe    [ Reply ]
Fan of neither RH or MUSE, but I hear the similarity.
Posted 19 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
StuBotNYC wrote:
Radiohead fan I am; but Muse I happen to like, unlike many I see here. But then again, there are tons of bands here that people gush over that make me want to hack up a hairball. Muse is amusing to me- my opinion. Kind of like Radiohead meets liberace vs. rush meets metallica? whine on haters :P
Muse reminds me of a hybrid of Radiohead (guitar effects)/Smashing Pumpkins (riff intensity/drumming)/Rush (fullness of sound despite the fact that there are only three band members.)
Posted 19 years ago by Gish05    [ Reply ]
Radiohead fan I am; but Muse I happen to like, unlike many I see here. But then again, there are tons of bands here that people gush over that make me want to hack up a hairball. Muse is amusing to me- my opinion. Kind of like Radiohead meets liberace vs. rush meets metallica? whine on haters :P
Posted 19 years ago by StuBotNYC    [ Reply ]
I don't know why Muse is constantly compared to Radiohead. There are more differences than there are similarities. You really should be saying: STOP. USING. THE. SAME. SONG. STRUCTURE. FOR. EVERY. TRACK!!!! They've a very talented and tight band, but there's a reason for it, if you ask me: A lot of their songs follow a very similar pattern. You can say this about countless bands, but Muse has one that is extremely easy to identify and is not very well hidden across their discography.
Posted 19 years ago by Gish05    [ Reply ]
STOP... TRYING .... TO..... BE .... RADIOHEAD!!!!!
Posted 20 years ago by Heathen    [ Reply ]
ChardRemains wrote:
Ditto ditto LAME overinflated drivel. It gets a 2.
The more I hear it the less I like it....and I rated it a "2" the first time round.
Posted 20 years ago by rulebritannia    [ Reply ]
Agreed that there's some radiohead in here...but it's also true that being a radiohead fun seems to bring with it the fact that one finds influences of radiohead everywhere. anyway, MUSE kind of dissappointed me after their first 2 good cds, pitty
Posted 20 years ago by kerouvian    [ Reply ]
Tux wrote:
I fully agree, and just added this to my auto-mute list. In my taste it's absolute annoying. Yuck.
Ditto ditto LAME overinflated drivel. It gets a 2.
Posted 20 years ago by ChardRemains    [ Reply ]
I don't mind the instrumentation on this one but overall I dislike every Muse track I've ever heard because this guy's whining vocals are irritating to say the least (shudder).
Posted 20 years ago by shua    [ Reply ]
stubbsz wrote:
Don't apologise. Your inabilty to see the staggeringly obvious similarities is not bothering anyone.
agreed - first couple of times I heard it, I swore it was RadioHead. The airy feel - the off key singing - the guitars - could go on and on...
Posted 20 years ago by akim    [ Reply ]
Went to see Live in december 1999. There was this totally unknown band called Muse opening for them. I have never, ever seen a band nobody knew get the audience so worked up. It was a great concert (And the main act was awesome too :-)
Posted 20 years ago by Freespirit    [ Reply ]
sub-defective wrote:
Kind of reminds me of Star Sailor.
I fully agree, and just added this to my auto-mute list. In my taste it's absolute annoying. Yuck.
Posted 20 years ago by Tux    [ Reply ]
gilbo wrote:
Sorry dont see the radiohead connection. Jsut hear a great song.
Don't apologise. Your inabilty to see the staggeringly obvious similarities is not bothering anyone.
Posted 20 years ago by stubbsz    [ Reply ]
Sorry dont see the radiohead connection. Jsut hear a great song.
Posted 20 years ago by gilbo    [ Reply ]
I don't think that two Radioheads is too many. While Thom Yorke et al are taking a breather, these guys can pick up the slack.
Posted 20 years ago by MaxEmerika    [ Reply ]
mig7 wrote:
Is it just me or does this guy sing with a lisp?
Thing for abtholution! ...Just kidding. I love Muse. Saw them live in May, they put on a great show.
Posted 20 years ago by gillicious    [ Reply ]
Is it just me or does this guy sing with a lisp?
Posted 20 years ago by mig7    [ Reply ]
shakylegs wrote:
Derivative? Yes. Catchy? Yup.
Jewish? No
Posted 20 years ago by JokesandJokesandJokes    [ Reply ]
They tended to me more intense than this on their first two albums, although very, very similar... at times JBuckleyish
Posted 20 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
Derivative? Yes. Catchy? Yup.
Posted 20 years ago by shakylegs    [ Reply ]
Oh, why don't you just save us the trouble of listening to this by just playing radiohead, instead
Posted 20 years ago by cataloger    [ Reply ]
Saw them live at the Roskilde festival. A tremendous concert! Both the band and the crowd were fantastic. As for being off key, well, he might be wailing, but he's not off key. I find the desperate melancholic tone really fits in with the instruments. You should hear when he gets behind the piano : )
Posted 20 years ago by Ferris    [ Reply ]
there's no "Starsailor"-connection here. Listen to "Muse - Bliss" and listen your arguments go down the drain! In You Face yes? :D heheh
Posted 20 years ago by Sobient    [ Reply ]
Fantastic. saw them live recently. They were tremendous. Does this remind anyobne else of 1970s british TV shows? or is it just e?
Posted 20 years ago by gilbo    [ Reply ]
I love these guys. They were my first initiation into any musical other than calssical - parents dont like it, and i was never rebellious. Thanks whoever uploaded this.
Posted 20 years ago by callum    [ Reply ]
fluorophore wrote:
Seriously. They dug up Buckley. Tell me I'm wrong.
i hear ya :nodhead: if you've ever listened to the band Ours, you'd think that too. i also see the similarity between starsailor in a strange way.
Posted 20 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
Seriously. They dug up Buckley. Tell me I'm wrong.
Posted 20 years ago by fluorophore    [ Reply ]
lily34 wrote:
THANKS did you get any more of Muse accepted??? very much like Ours, imho.
Yes, Endlessly which will probably also get similar reactions to those below! - ie you either love it or you hate it. No matter, there's plenty music that I love and just as much that I hate on RP. It'd be a dull world if we all liked the same music - thanks to Bill G we can say what we think. I'm pleased you're in the former category though! I haven't uploaded any others, but I think I've seen some other Muse tracks in the LRC, so they might make it through.
Posted 20 years ago by Ngoziman    [ Reply ]
Kind of reminds me of Star Sailor. I like it.
Posted 20 years ago by sub-defective    [ Reply ]
rulebritannia wrote:
This sounds like purgatory to me.
Purgatory would be a reprieve - this is closer to actual hell. I agree with the comment below - way too whiny.
Posted 20 years ago by justlistening    [ Reply ]
Yes, he should sing for absolution! But, like too many RP vocalists, his vocal quality is wince-inducing and off key. Rather than get into a piercing range, he could have simply set the song down a few keys. The instrumentation on this song, though, is invigorating and good quality. I would rather do without the wailing, that's all.
Posted 20 years ago by rKokon    [ Reply ]
Ngoziman wrote:
's me
THANKS did you get any more of Muse accepted??? very much like Ours, imho.
Posted 20 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
make it stop... please make it stop
Posted 20 years ago by Jimi_Zep    [ Reply ]
great song. hope to hear it more !
Posted 20 years ago by agoston    [ Reply ]
lily34 wrote:
its about time this got uploaded i LOVE this album/band/song. FABULOUS. thanks to whomever this thanks belongs to.
's me
Posted 20 years ago by Ngoziman    [ Reply ]
its about time this got uploaded i LOVE this album/band/song. FABULOUS. thanks to whomever this thanks belongs to.
Posted 20 years ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
This sounds like purgatory to me.
Posted 20 years ago by rulebritannia    [ Reply ]
Oh, quit your f*cking yowling!
Posted 20 years ago by mig7    [ Reply ]
Good!
Posted 20 years ago by ObsidianInfinity    [ Reply ]
Spooky and atmospheric. I like.
Posted 20 years ago by jsjacob    [ Reply ]
I like it. It's Pretty.
Posted 20 years ago by utopiapark    [ Reply ]