Unnatural Selection (song)

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Muse song
Name Unnatural Selection
Album/single The Resistance (6)[1]
Length 6:54, 7:20 (DVD-A)
Alternative titles Billions of Digits Carved Into Tablets of Crystal[2]
First live performance 4th September 2009
Latest live performance -
Recorded Lake Como and Milan, Italy, 2009
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, Christopher Wolstenholme
Producer Muse

Description

"Unnatural Selection" opens with a church organ before drums and "powerful" sounding guitars begin, calming down afterwards, before coming back to a 'metallic' end riff.[3] Going on to be one of the more guitar-driven songs on The Resistance.[4]

Additional information

Christopher Wolstenholme thinks that the song might address the idea of the British royal family being descendants of giant lizards, as proposed by David Icke among others.[5] Wolstenholme also stated in an interview with FHM that it was influenced by Queens of the Stone Age in places, and that it was the most 'rock' track on the album. [6]

Lyrics

They'll laugh as they watch us fall
The lucky don't care at all
No chance for fate
It's unnatural selection
I want the truth

I'm hungry for some unrest
I wanna push it beyond a peaceful protest
I wanna speak in a language that they will understand
Dedication to a new age
This is the end of destruction and rampage
Another chance to erase then repeat it again

Counter balance this commotion
We're not droplets in the ocean
Ocean

They'll laugh as they watch us fall
The lucky don't care at all

No (hey)
Chance (hey)
For fate (hey)
It's unnatural selection
I want the truth!

No religion or mind virus
Is there a hope that the facts would ever find us
Just make sure that you are looking out for number one
I'm hungry for some unrest
Well let's push it beyond a peaceful protest
I wanna speak in a language that you will understand

Counter balance this commotion
We're not droplets in the ocean
Ocean

They'll laugh as they watch us crawl
The lucky don't share at all

No (hey)
Hope (hey)
For fate (hey)
It's a random chance selection
I want the truth!

Try to ride out the storm
Whilst they'll make you believe
They are the special ones
(We have not been chosen)

Injustice is the norm
You won't be the first
And you know you won't be the last

Counter balance this commotion
We're not droplets in the ocean
Ocean, ocean, ocean!

They'll laugh as they watch us fall
And the lucky, they don't care at all

No (hey)
Chance (hey)
For fate (hey)
It's unnatural selection, 
I want the truth! I want the truth! 
I want the truth! I want the truth!

References

  1. 6.UNNATURAL SELECTION (2009-07-03). Twitter. Retrieved 2009-07-03 from twitter.com.
  2. Michael Odell. (2009-07). Hot New Albums 42: Muse. Q, 78. Retrieved 2009-07-25. [verify]
  3. Julien Bordier. (2009-07-0?). Jai ecoute le nouveau Muse. L'Express. Retrieved 2009-07-10 from www.muselive.com. [verify]
  4. Dean Chalkley. (2009-07-07). Muse New Album - First Listen. NME magazine. Retrieved 2009-07-08. [verify]
  5. Michael Odell. (2009-08-21). resistance is FUTILE. Q, 48–56. Retrieved 2009-08-23 from board.muse.mu. [verify]
  6. FHM - "Muse: The Resistance - Album number five and Muse have lost the plot in the best possible way."


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