Twin (song)

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Muse song
Name Twin
Album/single
Length 3:19 (Twin), 2:55 (Balloonatic)
Alternative titles Balloonatic
First live performance Elysée Montmartre 2000
Latest live performance Unknown
Recorded Newton Abbot 1996 (Balloonatic), 1999
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer Unknown

Twin
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Balloonatic
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Additional information

First recorded as "Balloonatic", this was very first song Muse released, in 1997, on the Helping You Back to Work Volume 1 compilation. It was recorded in late 1996 and is included on the Newton Abbot demo. By the time "Twin" was released, Matthew Bellamy was unaware that it had ever been released under the name "Balloonatic".[1]

The name "Balloonatic" came from a children's television programme at the time the music was written. Bellamy stated that after he wrote the lyrics, the song was renamed "Twin",[1] although complete versions of the song were in fact released under both titles, albeit with somewhat different lyrics in each.

The bassline to this song bears similarity with Radiohead's "My Iron Lung".

Music trivia

At 0:08, Bellamy can be heard giggling.

Lyrics

Your warmth
Your warmth is so deep, 
Your gaze beams a hole into me 

Controlling again 
Unseparated twins 
Controlling again 

You've sucked 
All the breath out of me 
You'll squeeze all the life out of me

Controlling again 
Unseparated twins 
Controlling again 

Controlling again 
Unseparated twins 
You might've been...
 
Come gentle, slowly, 
Down tonight

Balloonatic

You came,
You came, you scorched her
You came, unstained you adore her

United again 
Like separated twins 
United again 

You 
You will remember
She knows, she knows you want her

United again 
Like separated twins 
United again

United again 
Like separated twins 
You can be...

Come gentle, slowly, 
Down tonight

References

  1. a b (1999-09-20). [Webchat]. Sonicnet. Retrieved 2008-04-23 from rocketbabydolls.com. [verify]

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