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| | Name = Citizen Erased | | {{Gigbox |
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| | Length = 7:21 | | | Event = VOLT Festival |
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| | First = [[London Sound 2001-02 (gig) | 12{{supo|th}} February 2001]] | | | Date = 21st June 2022 |
| | Latest = [[Paris Cigale 2018 (gig)|24{{supo|th}} February 2018]] | | | DateRef = <ref>https://isleofwightfestival.com</ref> |
| | Recorded = [[Real World Studios|Real World Studio Wiltshire]], 2000/2001 | | | Location = Sopron |
| | Writer = [[Matthew Bellamy]] | | | LocationRef = <ref>https://isleofwightfestival.com</ref> |
| | Producer = [[John Leckie]] | | | Country = Hungary |
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| | Previous = [[Plug In Baby (song) | Plug In Baby]] | | | Next = [[Odense Tusindårsskoven 2022 (gig)|Tinderbox Festival]] |
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| | Previous = [[Showbiz (album) | Showbiz ''(1999)'']]
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| == Description ==
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| [[Matthew Bellamy]]: "It's an expression of what it feels like to be questioned. I spend more time than most people being asked about purpose, and it's a strange feeling. I don't really have the answers and I have to respond on the knowledge I have obtained so far, but the problem is that it gets printed, and something else has come along that's made you completely disagree with what you said".<ref>Rock Sound - 2001</ref>
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| It was written around a drum beat that [[Dominic Howard]] composed, matt said: "On Citizen Erased, Dom came in one day with this funky James Brown beat and Chris just started playing along. I then applied the chord structure that I already had and it suddenly became a full-on metal track out of nowhere. Because it was so heavy for so long we decided to add another song on to the end of it." <ref>Guitarist Magazine - What all the Hullabaloo is about. [september 2002]</ref>
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| The song could also be a reference to [[George Orwell | Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' in which citizens are erased and lies control society.
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| When asked about [[The Globalist (song)|The Globalist]] and Citizen Erased, Matt referred to them as "opposites": "I guess Citizen Erased is loosely about a person disappearing into nothing, declining to take control/power and choosing to fade from memory rather than embrace the chaos; feeling trampled and bowing away."<ref>
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| === Live ===
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| The first live performance of Citizen Erased had the outro played on guitar rather than keyboard. The keyboard outro was introduced at least as early as the 12{{supo|th}} April 2001 - no recording exists between the first performance and then.
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| A different riff replaced the guitar solo towards the middle of the song during the [[Absolution (album) | Absolution]] tour. During the 2006 tour, the vocals of the instrumental between the final chorus and final verse were removed. These returned partially by [[Paris Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy 2006 - 15th (gig) | Paris-Bercy, 15{{supo|th}} December 2006]], or possibly sometime prior on the late 2006 European tour. Additional drumming was added during this interlude on the aforementioned date.
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| Citizen Erased is the only song where the [[Manson 7 String E Guitar | 7 String E Guitar]] is used. Coincidentally, it is assumed a six-string was used to record this song, thought to be the [[Manson Delorean | Delorean]], as a [[Z.Vex Fuzz Factory | Fuzz Factory]] is featured in the solo, and early photos of said guitar show a bass string in place of the low E string, in order to accommodate drop A tuning. Matt owned both guitars at the time of recording, so it can't be said for sure which guitar(s) he used.
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| The song was played regularly during The Resistance Tour, made occasional appearances during the The 2nd Law Tour, and regularly during the Drones Tour.
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| [[Citizen Erased (live) | More here]]
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| == Music trivia ==
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| For the week starting 9{{supo|th}} July 2007, some members of [[Muselive.com]] and other fan-sites attempted to get Citizen Erased into the UK charts. It eventually reached position N{{supt|o}} 122. Jesting about the song's popularity three years later, Matthew Bellamy commented "[...] so we've got to change our website I think to uh— from Muse.mu to CitizenErased.com", before performing it [[Manchester Old Trafford Cricket Ground 2010 (gig) | within Old Trafford Cricket Ground]].
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| During the [[The Resistance (album) | Resistance]] tour in Sydney on the 9{{supo|th}} of December, Bellamy dedicated "Citizen Arrested" to Julian Assange, the Australian WikiLeaks founder who had been arrested in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences just days earlier before the song.
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| == Lyrics == | | == Information == |
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| |Break me in,
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| Teach us to cheat
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| And to lie, and cover up
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| What shouldn't be shared
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| And the truth's unwinding
| | Announced on December 1st, 2021, Muse are set to headline the Telekom VOLT Festival in Sopron, Hungary, on June 21st, 2022. |
| Scraping away at my mind
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| Please stop asking me to describe
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| For one moment
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| I wish you'd hold your stage
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| With no feelings at all
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| Open-minded
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| I'm sure I used to be so free
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| Self-expressed
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| Exhausting for all to see and to be
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| What you want and what you need
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| And the truth's unwinding
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| Scraping away at my mind
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| Please stop asking me to describe
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| I'm sure I used to be so free
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| I wish you'd hold your stage
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| With no feelings at all
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| I'm sure I used to be so free
| | | rowspan="1" | Multi-day ticket |
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| Wash me away
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| Clean your body of me
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| Erase all the memories
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| They'll only bring us pain
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| And I've seen all I'll ever need
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| == References == | | == References == |
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| {{Backto | Origin of Symmetry (album) | Origin of Symmetry}}
| | == See also == |
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| | * [[Sopron Löver Camping|Löver Camping, Sopron]] |