Sing for Absolution

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"Sing for Absolution"
AIR (London)
GenreAlternative rock
Length
  • 4:54 (album version)
  • 3:42 (radio edit)
LabelEast West
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)Matt Bellamy
Producer(s)
Muse singles chronology
"Hysteria"
(2003) 		"Sing for Absolution"
(2004) 		"Apocalypse Please"
(2004)
Alternative covers
DVD cover
Alternative cover
7" cover

"Sing for Absolution" is a song by English

UK Singles Chart. The song also appears on the Absolution Tour DVD. A live acoustic version of the song serves as a B-side for the "Butterflies and Hurricanes
" single.

Background

"Sing for Absolution" is composed in the key of

C sharp minor
; it was performed in its original key only in its earliest live appearances. The song was performed at most shows from 2003 to 2004 and occasionally in 2007. The song has not been performed since 2017.

Drummer Dominic Howard has said that the song is about finding absolution through singing and writing music, Dom said: The song "Sing For Absolution" is about the music writing and making music. This can also be a kind of absolution, but not in the religious sense intentioned. Absolution may mean that you will find an absoluteness or something positive. Through things you might not quite understand, or things that are strange or confusing things that you look at first as a negative singing, in other word, making music can be a way to understand these things. To pack in a context that makes them understandable.[3]

Video

This video was produced by ARK of Sheffield, UK, and released in May 2004. It depicts a populated civilised planet, probably a New Earth on which humans have settled. The camera's

POV begins with a city, possibly London
, firing missiles off-camera. As the camera pans left, the viewer can see massive walls of ice that suggest the leading edge of an encroaching glacier. This is the apparent target for the weapons. Muse is then shown to be on a very large, futuristic rocketship launching into space. Leaving the atmosphere, they pass by space debris and an enormous video screen which features a beautiful, coyly smiling woman along with the message, "Be prepared... the ice age is coming".

Muse's rocket then docks with a 'Cryo Module' that is housing hundreds of people in a state of cryogenic suspension, which is revealed in the extended version of the video. It could be speculated that Muse's mission is to populate their destination planet. The spacecraft and its attached module enter a hyperdrive-like wormhole. The ship eventually exits into an asteroid field above an orange planet. The pilot (Bellamy) steers the ship to avoid colliding with the asteroids but ends up failing to completely avoid an especially large one. The cryo module collides with it, damaging the docking collar and sending them somewhat out of control. The cryo module is detached, and the spacecraft gains speed as it enters the orange planet's atmosphere. The brakes on the ship fail, and they crash, sliding a very large distance from the incredible speed. Muse is next seen standing on a cliff, looking out over a large landscape. As the camera zooms out, the

Big Ben in London
can be seen, completely in ruin buried beneath large collections of dirt and sand. It can be speculated that they are the last remaining survivors on the planet, however, the final shot of the detached Cryo Module drifting in space implies that the last surviving humans are actually those left frozen inside, ending the video on a darkly ironic note.

Track listing

  • 7" EW285, CD EW285CD
  1. "Sing for Absolution" (full length US remix) – 5:01
  2. "Fury" – 4:59
    • Previously released on the Japanese version of
      bonus track
      .
  • DVD EW285DVD
  1. "Sing for Absolution" (video)
  2. "Sing for Absolution" (audio)
  3. "Sing for Absolution" (making of the video)
  4. "Big Day Off" (video)
  5. Artwork Gallery of the band

Charts

References

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 15 May 2004. p. 31.
  2. ^ a b "Muse – Sing for Absolution Sheet Music (Digital Download)". MusicNotes.com. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
  3. ^ "Muse – Interview with Philipp Schiedel (translated from German)". Laut.de. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
  4. Ultratip
    . Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. Les classement single
    . Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Muse – Sing for Absolution". Top Digital Download. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 27, 2004" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Muse – Sing for Absolution" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  10. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  11. ^ "Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  12. ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 2004". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  13. ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 2004". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

External links

  • Muse – official website.
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