Muse – Falling Away with You

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  General Comment:Those of you who claim this song is about a breakup are to some extent correct but you're thinking far too superficially.
  
  This song can be viewed in a much more cosmic context when you think about it with regards to growing older, maturing, and realizing that things are changing around you. You lose some of the love you used to have, yet you keep some of it. Some of your relationships last; others don't. You are happy at times and at others sad.
  
  This song is about remembering all of those moments, whether good or bad. And at the same time, it's about realizing that your life will continue regardless of your past, and you have the chance to entirely reinvent yourself if you so desire ("I think our lives have just begun.")
  
  The "I" in this song refers to you, yourself. The "you" refers to anyone whom you might love at any point, including your parents, romantic partners, or simply your most intimate friends. The "we" that this song refers to, then, refers to you and your loved ones.
  
  The song, then, becomes a song of perseverance--of using love to persevere despite all of the hardships you may experience. We should "fall away with" everyone whom we might love, because if we forget to love, our lives become meaningless.

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  General Comment:I think that it's about a relationship crumbling, but one of them doesn't want it to end, because he/she means so much to him/her.
  "I can't remember when it was good, moments of happiness elude" - The man or woman (Lets just say it's a guy from now) is saying that he wants it back to when everything was happy, and there were no fights.
  "I'll love whatever you become, forget the reckless things we've done, I think our life's have just begun" - he's saying, so what if things aren't the same any more, I want it to work, so forget the fights and lets start again.
  And we come to the chorus "I'll feel my world crumbling..." - And so on, it's him crying out to her how much he needs her, saying how she's his world, and if she were to go, he'd be empty.
  So, in my opinion, this songs tells the story differently to everyone, that's the beauty of music, everyone see's it in a different way, but to me, this is about a relationship crumbling and the guy is trying desperately to keep them together.
  Amazing song, one of my favourites on "Absolution".

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    amen

    Flag Jexcaon October 22, 2012  
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  General Comment:wow, what talent... the arrangement of this song is AWESOME! I'm listening with some high quality headphones and it blows me away... the way the guitar, bass, drumming and singing come together, and such emotion! it does not get better than this!

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  General Comment:I'd say it's about the aftermath of a breakup, where one person has been completely destroyed by it, and yet can't - or won't - let go.
  This person has allowed the other to become their whole life, and without them, everything they had before will also "crumble away". The line "staying awake to chase a dream" suggests to me that the only thing now keeping them going is the pursuit of an impossible dream, wanting everything to be the way it was and forgiving the other person for everything they've done, but it can never be enough.

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  General Comment:this song has made me fall in love over and over again.. with Muse.. <3

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  General Comment: I think this song is about someone trying to move on from a crumpled relationship, but ends up going back anyways.

  Flag BritAuroraon July 21, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:It is the realization that your relationship is one sided, and noticing behavior/actions from the other person that are "reckless" in nature and destructive to the relationsip. Because the author is the one who loves this girl, he can't help but accept and forgive her past and future mistakes. He makes her believe that after this recent incident, they can still start over. He knows it is a lie, and that there is no point to prolong the relationship, but he can't bear to lose her just yet, so he deals with the pain of gradually trying to fall out of love with her as well as give her the time to fall even further away. This process feels exactly what the chorus says. The second part of the song describes him finding himself contemplating how much he is in love with her and feeling bad about what he thinks they lost as she sleeps beside him. He then realizes he shouldn't be feeling and thinking this way and this made him hurt again. When it is finally over, he knows he wouldn't be able to recall memories of her love for him since he accepted that the happiness he felt were just illusions created by his own deep love for her.

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  General Comment:This song makes me cry whenever I hear it. It makes me think of all of the things that I never said but now it's too late. I could have tried to make something happen. Now they're just "Memories I will never find" I feel like it's about wishing that things happened and wishing that you were still there with that person but knowing that you can't ever truly go back. And even though you loved this person, life just like came in and pulled you apart. This is one of the most beautiful songs ever.

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  General Comment:No, no, I think the song has this double meaning that many songs have: they can apply to a relationship, because they're written like that on puspose, but that's only the surface, as somebody said above.
  
  I think the deeper meaning is the writer talking to himself. If you take this approach, the song has a completely different meaning than if you see it only as a relationshiplike song:
  
  It has to do with the writer having changed, and having somehow lost the hopes and happiness of an early life; having done reckless things as he grew up, and not being able to find that childish happiness again, not sure that it even exists, that it ever existed. However, he decides to accept himself and giving himself a chance saying: "I'll love whatever you become...our lives have just begun". But it still feels he can't find any hope, or find those memories.
  
  I think this makes sense considering the other songs and the name of the album.

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  General Comment:One of the most beautiful and powerful Muse songs. It makes me think of my ex husband. We grew up together, best friends..lots of childhood memories building tree houses,learning to ride bikes, etc. We were just best friends in High School...he dated my closest friend. Later she broke up w/him and soon after he & I gave it a go after he said he had feelings for me. Such a mistake. We should have just stayed friends. Our marriage was awful...he was a mean, selfish husband and I was neglected and lonely. It lasted barely over a year. Fast forward almost 20 yrs and I hear this Muse song...it makes me feel everything I felt when he suddenly said he wanted a divorce. Even though my head was saying this was the miracle I'd been waiting for and it was a new start for both of us. My heart was breaking and "my world was falling away"...all the memories of childhood would now be tainted, everything ruined I not only lost a husband...but my best friend too...now when my kids ask about my childhood friends. I have to edit my memories. I ended up marrying a great guy later and been married 19 yrs now while my ex is 41 & divorced 3 times total. I'd always selfishly thought I was the "one that got away". Because I was the one girl that he'd dated that didn't need "fixing" or "saving" But I'd misunderstood that even. It was my friend in HS that he's been pining for all these years...not me. It was a crushing blow. "I can't remember when it was good...moments of happiness elude...maybe I just misunderstood"

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