Muse: Time is Running Out Meaning
Time is Running Out Lyrics
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
That you've created
You're something beautiful
A contradiction
I wanna play the game
I want the friction
You will be the death of me
You will be the death of me
Bury it
I...
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I think that it is not about a relationship, partly because as far as i know they dont do that kinda stuff. Anyway,
'I think I'm drowning
asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
that you've created' relates to the government, as they have power and they may not be as good as everyone thinks, and everyone has fallen under their spell, while he knows the truth and is suffocating because he cant do anything about it while it gets worse.
And the next bit talks about how they could be great, but are choosing not to. They want to play the game, as in they want to have war and have the friction of the two sides, but there is only one side and they are dying in it as they cannot rebel. You will be the death of me, is saying they are doing things to people and eventually everyone is going to die.
The next part may be about someone who is trying to tell them that the higher up people are doing great and he is refusing, not letting them smother the truth.
Our time is running out simply means that if no one does something we are all going to die. and you cant push the truth away, or underground and no matter what you do the truth will always be screaming out.
I wanted freedom
bound and restricted
means that he wants freedom, but he is bound and restricted with everything he does.
how did it come to this
is him screaming out how did this happen??? and how did it come so he has to fight. -
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I think it's about capitalist society; we're bombarded with the things we don't need.
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I Read That In The Book "In Your World The Story Of Muse" (its a good read btw) that It was about the 9/11 bombings in america and how the end of the humanity is drawing closer because of this (I lost the page in the book but think that's wat it says)
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Just by looking at it, it seems like it's about a relationship, but from my personal opinion it's about the government, more than anything else.Its Muse referring to an oppressive "big brother" style government, almost as an overbearing girlfriend.
In the first verse, they r referring to whats happening.
In the second one, their talking about how the oppresive government was started. "Your something beautiful": many a corrupt government looks beautiful to begin with. "A contradiction": talking about how, while it looks good to start with, it actually can't be. "I wanna play the game, I want the friction" is talking about the average citizens willigness to go along with a government as long as their creature comforts are kept.
The chorus is someone finally fighting against some occurance that the government doesn't want people to know, so is trying to shush.
The third verse is talking about someone trying to fight back, but failing because they don't know what free will is.
The fourth verse is talking about how the government, knowing they've destroyed all opposition, preparing to take complete control.
The last three verses are very despairing, yet defiant, the speaker knowing he has no chance but still fighting on. -
The Album was written as the band went into self induced opium addiction to better describe the ending of the world. So yes, he was a drug addict, but the relationship thing makes the most sense. Each song describes the end of some world. The relationship ending may be his inner world ending.
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Yea. I agree with the relationship thing. It reminds me of Jacob in breaking dawn. How he's addicted to bella but knows it's not possible. and the whole "suck the life out of me" thing fits in well.
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He says in a interview on Youtube that it's actually about that time in your life where all is winding down and nothing can stop you.
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I think that it's about dropping a bomb, the video does really enforce this theory too, time is running out until the bomb is dropped, I won't let you smother it etc.. It is other countries that are about to get destroyed
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This song has to do with a relationship, and an addiction obviously. I'd say it's that he sees the relationship he's in as a beautiful thing, and he can't see living without it as a part of his life even though the other person is pulling away. So basically he's frustrated saying that he won't let it fall apart and turn into nothing, but even he has to admit that their time is running out. This closeness could also be because he got the other person in the relationship pregnant, and if they're separated, he believes that she will get an abortion as well.
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I always thought this song was about a prostitute he can't stop going back to.. 'i try to give you up but I'm addicted' and 'i wanna play the game I want the friction' is probably talking about sex.. but I'm probably wrong.
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