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Stay, wait for me
Build a fortress and shield your beliefs
Touch the divide as we fall in the ravine
Can't believe
When I don't trust
All your theories turn to dust
A truth to hide
From you seeing red
[Chorus]
Destroy this city of delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons with your bloody hand
You will not rest
Settle for less
Until you guzzle and squander what's left
Do not deny
Where you live
And led alone
[Chorus: x2]
Build a fortress and shield your beliefs
Touch the divide as we fall in the ravine
Can't believe
When I don't trust
All your theories turn to dust
A truth to hide
From you seeing red
[Chorus]
Destroy this city of delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons with your bloody hand
You will not rest
Settle for less
Until you guzzle and squander what's left
Do not deny
Where you live
And led alone
[Chorus: x2]
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death, edited by florspring
Track duration: 04:48
"City of Delusion" as written by Matthew James Bellamy
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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I mean they also do it in "Stocholm syndrome" and "assassin" too! LONG LIVE THE ALL MIGHTY MUSE!!!
When I don't trust
All your theories turn to dust
I choose to hide
From the All Seeing Eye"
what i see in this part is an anti-Illuminati statement (i choose to hide from the All Seeing Eye) that's slipped into a anti-religious context. im really that someone would put anything anti-illuminati in mainstream music, but hey, someone's gotta exist outside their control.
"Can I believe/When I don't trust/All your theories turn to dust" - about having no faith in what our leaders tell us, government lies and propaganda, like the alleged WMDs in Iraq and the justification of war.
"I choose to hide/From the All Seeing Eye" - allusions again to government control and the police state, also I would say a pretty obvious reference to the Illuminati
"You will not rest/Or settle for less/Until you guzzle and squander whats left" - could be about using up all the world's resources with no regard for the future or the effect it's having now, "guzzle and squander" sounds like a specific reference to oil consumption
"Do not deny/That you live and let die" - talking about the global elite taking what they want and leaving nothing for the rest of us
That's how I interpret it anyway. It's a very good song.
"Build a fortress and shield your beliefs" and "Until you guzzle and squander what's left" (oil anyone??) probably explain the political motivations behind the song better than any other lines.
"Stay away from me"
Talking to religion. Saying he wants nothing of it.
"Build a fortress and shield your beliefs"
Saying your beliefs (or lack thereof) are your own but sometimes you are attacked for them.
"I choose to hide
From the All Seeing Eye"
Once again taking atheism into account it is easy to see that the all seeing eye is God.
"Destroy this city of delusion"
It may be a reach but I think Bellamy wants to rid the world of religion...
Stay away from me
Build a fortress and shield your beliefs
Touch the divine
As we fall in line
I dont want any part of this illusion that our government/world religions use to control us. Religion/Government has built a fortress for our beleifs, they use God, the devine, to keep us in line.
Can I believe
When I don't trust
All your theories turn to dust
I choose to hide
From the All Seeing Eye
How can I believe all that has been fed to me when I learn of all the lies. Now I must question all that I know. Now I choose not to be a sheep and steer clear of the global elite/illuminati/new world order and their agenda.
Destroy this city of delusion
And break these walls down
And I will avenge
And justify my reasons
With your blood
Now that I am aware of the wool being pulled over my eyes I am feeling the revolt build up inside. (Pay attention to the change in music). Its time to wake up and do something about whats happening in the world.
You will not rest
Or settle for less
Until you guzzle and squander whats left
Do not deny
That you live and let die
Global Elite/world leaders of the past whose bloodlines make up the current world leaders and media mogules..those who manipulate us will not rest until they have reached thier goals to create a world government. It doesnt matter how they do it...all that matters is their blood having control. They will destroy the lot of us, or divide us and have us destroy one another so that they can live in power when all is said and done.
Destroy this city of delusion
And break these walls down
And I will avenge
And justify my reasons
With your blood
We must overcome and tear down these people who manipulate us through the media before they turn us all against one another and send us to our death. Our reasons our justified. Unite. One love.
Build a fortress and sheild your beliefs
I have my own opinions
Touch the divine
As we fall in line
I am finding the truth that we are all losing individuallity
Can I beleive
When I don't trust
Why should I beleive in somthinh I don't want to?
All your theories turn to dust
There is no excuse for what they have done
I choose to hide from the all seeing eye
I don't beleive in America as a whole (if you don't know where I got america from, find a $1 bill and look on the capstone of the pyramid on the back... I think it was origionally a freemason sybol, but I may be wrong, and it's becoming irrelivant to the song)
Destroy this city of delusion
Break these walls down
Reveal America for what it is
I will avenge
I won't let you get away with this
Justify my reasons with your blood
Somthing needs to be done about you
You'll not rest, settle for less
'till you guzzle and squander what's left
You'll keep going until you have less than no reason to continue
You're not divine
Yet you live and let die
You're playing god
Then the rest is repeated with several changes in wording
"Destroy this city of delusion
And break these walls down"
-Those who believe differently from us suffer from delusions, tear them down. Intolerance at its simplest.
"And I will avenge"
-The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are afterall about revenge after 9/11))
"And justify my reasons
With your blood"
-It's political suicide to criticize the military's actions in the US now, you'll be accused of "not supporting our soldiers. As such, the blood of US soldiers has been used to justify the war in Iraq. Afterall, if you dare claim it was a war for no reason, you turn the sacrifice of the soldiers into nothing"
I think the verses are sung from the POV of someone protesting against Bush, it's like a debate of sorts with Bellamy singing both sides.
This theory goes in line with the bush criticism on Knights of Cydonia ("how can we win, when fools can be kings") and Take A Bow ("spell, cast a spell, cast a spell on the country you run") as well as Exo-Politics and Assassin as mentioned.