Do We Need This (song)

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Muse song
Name	Do We Need This
Album/single	Uno CD2 (3), Muscle Museum CD1 (2), Random 1-8 (8)
Length	4:18
Alternative titles	-
First live performance	Unknown
Latest live performance	9th January 2000
Recorded	1999
Writer/composer	Matthew Bellamy
Producer	Paul Reeve
Chart position	-

Description

Played a lot in 1999 and early 2000 before they started playing newer songs. Very creepy, with an emphasis on eerily simple piano and percussion at the beginning, which then morphs into the usual epic rock number, with a simple 3 chord power riff.

Additional information

It appears to be about perfectionism, and the whole "Showbiz" theme: putting on a persona that doesn't reflect the persons true inner self.
Thomas Kirk also played some percussions.

Music trivia

If you listen really closely at 2.23, 2.31, 2.35, 2.38 and 2.43, a scratching sound - like a zip - can be heard.

Lyrics

Too many young and too many old
Too many people left you in the cold
You want everything to change
Cause you are afraid of losing

She only exists when shes on a screen
He's only alive inside a machine
We want everything to change
Because we are afraid of losing

Tell me do you really need this
Tell me do you really care
Tell me do you really need this
Tell me do you really care

Because I don't think you really need this
I don't think you really care
I don't think you really need this
I don't think you really care

Too many young and too many old
Too many people left you in the cold
We want everything to change
Now I'm so afraid of losing
Yeah yeah yeah 

Random 1-8

Too many people trapped in your mould

Is sung instead of the second line of the chorus.

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