Will of the People (song)

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Muse song
Name Will of the People[1]
Album/single
Length 3:18[2]
Alternative titles
First live performance
Latest live performance
Recorded 2021
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer Muse, Aleks Von Korff
Chart position


Description

Title track off of the album Will of the People. The song's name has been "officially" leaked on March 14th, 2022 via the JSON output from wontstanddown.muse.mu, which contains basic album info. In late May of 2022, Apple Music began showing the track length of the song in the album playlist, while Amazon set up a placeholder release date of June the 1st, hinting at the single being released in June. The song itself got leaked on May 26th, 2022, while the official release date of the single remains to be announced.

Will Of The People has previously been teased by Muse through a couple of short clips, on YouTube and Instagram, revealing the album's name. Upon the album announcement, Warner described it as a track that "brings playful provocation to a dystopian glam-rocker"[3]

Instrumentation

The song starts out with a looping choir, built up of layers of Matt Bellamy chanting the line "The Will of the People". The same loop appears throughout the song. The track itself is based around guitar, bass and drums, with some guitar-synth layering, which is especially noticeable during the last part.

The song is similar to the work of Green Day’s Uno, Dos and Tré era, aswel as the Father Of All... era, bearing also some resemblance to Uprising and Psycho, written in the same swing rhytm. It's also been compared to Pressure and New Kind of Kick, having the same "rock'n'roll" feel with the saturated vocals. The song runs in A-Major and at a tempo of 130BPM.

Live

Lyrics

The will of the people, the will of the people

The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the


Let's push the emperors into the ocean Don't need a gun to flirt with devotion Every hour our number increases We'll smash your institutions to pieces

We need a transformation One we all can see We need a revolution So long as we stay free


Welcome to the desecration, yeah yeah We'll build up you right up and we'll tear you down Welcome to the celebration, baby The chance is our children, this future is ours


Free your sons and unlock your daughters We'll throw the baby out with the bathwater With every second our anger increases We're gonna smash a nation to pieces

We need a transmutation One we all can see We need a revolution So long as we stay free


Welcome to the desecration, baby We'll build up you right up and we'll tear you down Welcome to the celebration, baby The chance is our children, this future is ours


The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the sheeple The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the

The will of the people, the will of the people The will of the, will of the


Welcome to the desecration, baby We'll build up you right up and we'll tear you down Welcome to the celebration, baby The chance is our children, this future is ours

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