What does Supremacy mean?

Muse: Supremacy Meaning

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Supremacy Lyrics

wake to see
your true emancipation is a fantasy
policies have risen up and overcome the brave
greatness dies
unsung and lost, invisible to history
embedded spies
brainwashing our children to be mean
you don't have long
I am on to you
the...

  1. anonymous
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    May 2nd 2022 !⃝

    I feel like most of Muse's songs have a paranoid touch. It's always "we against them" themes and stories about being controlled or experimented on by the dangerous authorities. By paranoid I am not suggesting that there isn't truth in it though. There is a lot of crazy shit to worry about and people with power can be very dangerous.

  2. anonymous
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    Jan 24th 2014 !⃝

    Could this song be a reference to George Orwell's 1984? I know the book was an inspiration for some other Muse songs. 'Brainwashing our children to be mean...' That sounds like the Spies...

  3. anonymous
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    Sep 27th 2012 !⃝

    I see this song as perhaps a sequel to one of his songs about society resisting against oppressors (I had in mind Uprising.) 'They' are the oppressors, as in Uprising. In Uprising, however, it is clear that 'they' refers to a form of government controlling a society almost in a totalitarian way.

    The song's meaning? Matt is addressing 'them' in this song, almost like how Thomas Jefferson addressed King George III with the D.o.I. and state his wrongdoings and how America planned to form a revolution. Matt's lines are stating 'their' wrongdoings, portraying that he knows what they're doing, and finishes it off with telling 'them' that they will pay.


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