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Declare this an emergency
Come on and spread a sense of urgency
And pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end
This is the end
Of the world
And it's time we saw a miracle
Come on, it's time for something biblical
To pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end
This is the end
Of the world
Proclaim eternal victory
Come on and change the cause of history
And pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end
This is the end
Of the world
Come on and spread a sense of urgency
And pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end
This is the end
Of the world
And it's time we saw a miracle
Come on, it's time for something biblical
To pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end
This is the end
Of the world
Proclaim eternal victory
Come on and change the cause of history
And pull us through
And pull us through
And this is the end
This is the end
Of the world
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He finally wants to get to his home, up in the sky. The eternal victory his of course his death. Now, that's dead he got over his problems, he can finally be free from any source of evil.
Now he belongs to history.
Hypnotized for 48 hours straight with those two albums being played in infinity, the disc changer suddenly broke, and the three men woke up from their long-term trance. One man had an idea. "If 'Paranoid Android' is the band's longest song, clocking at six minutes, we can make songs longer than that!" Then he had even more ideas. "We can take their songs and make them better! Much much better with crescendos and everything!" The second of the three men spoke too. "We can write lyrics more people can relate to, like atheists! Instead of 'God loves his children', we can have 'I've exposed your lies, baby!'" The last of the three spoke: "We don't need complex melodies! Less is more! How about mindless arpeggios for a change?" The three men were excited and ambitious, plotting down every pretentious idea after another. One even thought he could sing like Thom Yorke, so he did.
These three men paid their homages to Radiohead by covering their songs. The songs that were covered were only Street Spirit (Fade Out) and Climbing up the Walls, re-titled to New Born and Megalomania due to copyright reasons. The former was even covered by themselves as Space Dementia! The rest of the tracks were also homages to that great band, but in the end it seemed like a parody.
The interviews with the lead singer do shed a lot of light on the purpose of the song. He seems to suggest that governmental & religious leaders and speakers muse on the idea of the end of the world, and use it as a cause for extreme measures.
The song's speaker is not speaking to you, or me, but to everyone. This voice craves for their matter to be an emergency. Not unlike 9/11, when an emergency was used to justify a war (regardless of anyone's feelings on the subject), there have been many times in history when the idea of some massive (apocalyptic or not) threat was used to justify a mass-scale intervention. This is how Cesar gained power in Rome. This is how Hitler gained power and brought the Nazis to power in Germany.
In keeping with the political and religious sentiment of the band that we can infer from lyrics just as easily as from their direct interviews, it is clear that the speaker is not the literal voice of the writer. He is a straw man, spreading fear and prophesizing about fire and brimstone crap, and has been created based on a number of past leaders who have used fear to gain power over, and over, again. To a populace medicated by this kind of BS propaganda, even the oldest tricks in the book have seemed new.
Muse mocks the idea of proclaiming victory as though it were eternal, or changing history, by using this severely flawed speaker. There is no such thing as an eternal victory, no matter how many times in history people have claimed to claim the final victory. Leaders and governments rise and fall, over and over again, but emerge by claiming to "change the course of history." The speaker feverishly demands for this to happen anew, when the sad joke is that it's already happened before, again, and again.
The biblical apocalypse hasn't come. And when the end of our time comes, it would be ridiculous to expect anyone to "pull us through" it.
the piano makes me want to cry.