Sing for Absolution
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| Single by Muse | ||||
| from the album Absolution | ||||
| B-side | "Fury" (7", CD) | |||
| Released | 17 May 2004 | |||
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4:54 (Album version) 3:42 (Radio edit) |
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| Label | East West | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Muse (Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme, Dominic Howard) | |||
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"Sing for Absolution" is a song by English rock band Muse, serving as the title track for their third studio album, Absolution. It was released in May 2004 as the fourth single from that album, peaking at #16 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2004 in British music). 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.
"Sing for Absolution" is composed in the key of D minor, and moves at a slow tempo of 86 bpm. The song's vocal range spans from G3 to A4. When performed live, the song is transposed down half a step, into C sharp minor.
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.
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".
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