Muse – Micro Cuts

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Hands are red with your blame
Megaphone screaming my name
Whimpers someone I should've loved
Souls weeping above

I've seen what you're doing
Destroying puppet strings
To my soul

Micro waves me insane
A Blaine cuts in your brain
Sounds like forks on a plate
Blackboard scratched with hate

I've seen what you're doing
Destroying puppet strings
To my soul

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Lyrics submitted by 3ssence, edited by jjrex

Track duration: 03:39

"Micro Cuts" as written by Matthew James Bellamy

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    General Comment:So fucking passionate and so epic.
    I can't get enough of it.
    Twisted Tree and Lanta have very good meanings, I'd say.
    Btw, Muse is AMAZING live.
    Flag jordankianon April 12, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:The lyrics of this song are seriously Orwellian in theme - and also remind me a lot of Pink Floyd's The Wall.

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that it might about the Catholic Church... specifically about being a kid at Catholic school, back in the good ol' days of corporal punishment.

    I got this idea from the first verse: "hands are red with your blame, megaphone screaming my name, whimpers someone i should've loved, souls weeping above" (The "hands red with your blame" referring to the supposedly righteous teachers/nuns who feel free to give their students a good beating)

    and the line: "blackboard scratched with hate"
    Flag Lantaon February 25, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i've SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
    WHAT YOURE DOING
    TO
    ME.


    the chorus is fucking painful, it's such a good song.
    Flag dstrktkzyon January 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i've SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
    WHAT YOURE DOING
    TO
    ME.


    the chorus is fucking painful, it's such a good song.
    Flag dstrktkzyon January 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with... TwistedTree(and all that stuff). The metaphors are just like he (or she?) says, well done :) . But I'm still not quite sure is about Media and television... it fits, your explanation fits very well that meaning, but I think that to understand a song at its most pure soul, we have to understand songs "surrounding" it, I mean, other songs that Matt wrote around that time, maybe some songs from Origin of Symmetry, but... Wow the explanation he (or she) gave us is excellent.
    Flag weirdloungeon July 12, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i've seen what you're doing to me
    destroying puppet strings
    to our souls


    HAHAHAHA when this part starts I just get so scared!
    because he gets sooooooo high.
    Flag bnormal320on April 15, 2009   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:To me the song is about how modern society is making people souless. If you imagine that a soul is the devine part of us, it's where our love and personally live. The 'Micro Cuts' are the tiny slices things like television and the media make to the link between ourselves and our souls. The 'red hands' are from the doctor making the slices in your brain that disconnects you from your soul - kind of like the experiments in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' books. Everyone's souls are 'weeping from above' as they have been cut away from us. The 'whimpering love' is because now he has no soul he can't love anyone anymore and it makes the person he should have falling in love with cry because he is dead inside. The 'micro cuts' are barely noticable, just a slight irritation like a fork squeaking on a plate, but over time they result in disconnection from your higher self and becoming a media zombie.

    So carry on listening to good music and switch off the television!!

    TV is the opiate of the masses and this song is basically Matt screaming out against it and how angry it makes him.

    Love it!
    Flagged TwistedTree81TwistedTree1on February 27, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Hate directed to someone who has died, maybe a partner who he feels just left him.
    Flag o0conduitxXxforxXxmusic0oon January 23, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:GREAT song but you can barely distinguish the different words XD
    Flag o0conduitxXxforxXxmusic0oon January 17, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I hate people who say its just him screaming and not actually singing....Its part of the song, and the emphasis of anger and hate and fear
    Flag tuftyon July 23, 2008   Link

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