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Aftermath

Release date: 3rd June 2015

From DronesTrack 105:48
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About This Track

A ballad from Muse's seventh studio album, 'Aftermath' strips back the band's usual architectural ambition in favour of something more intimate. The song finds stability in human connection amid broader collapse: as states crumble and walls rise, the narrator locates certainty in a single relationship, repeating the refrain that "from this moment" loneliness is gone. It's a love song built on the logic of siege, two people bound together against external chaos. The track sits apart from much of Drones' conceptual framework, one of only two songs on the album centred on romantic love rather than conflict or loss. Where its companion piece 'Dead Inside' charts the dissolution of that bond, 'Aftermath' documents its recovery, the moment when another person becomes the only thing that feels real. The song's pop-rock shape is deliberate and clean, letting the emotional repetition do the work.

"Aftermath" is a single by Muse, from the album Drones, released 3rd June 2015. The track is 5:48 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 19 articles about Muse.

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Lyrics

Aftermath

War is all around
I'm growing tired to fighting
I've been drained and I can't hide it
But I have strength for you, you're all that's real anymore
I am coming home now, I need your comfort
From this moment
From this moment
You will never be alone
We're bound together
Now and forever
The loneliness has gone
States are crumbling, and walls are rising high again
It's no place for the faint hearted
But my heart is strong 'cause now I know where I belong
It's you and I against the world
And we are free
From this moment
From this moment
You will never be alone
We're bound together
Now and forever
The loneliness has gone
We've gone against the tide
All we have is each other now
I am coming home now
I need your comfort
From this moment
From this moment
You will never be alone
We're bound together
Now and forever
The loneliness has gone
From this moment
From this moment
You will never be alone
We're bound together
Now and forever
The loneliness has gone
From this moment
From this moment
You will never be alone
We're bound together
Now and forever
The loneliness has gone
We're bound together
Now and forever
The loneliness has gone

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Track details

From Drones

5:482015Single
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Drones
Drones
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4th June 2015
Track number
10
Release year
2015
  1. 1Dead Inside
    4:23
  2. 2[Drill Sergeant]
    0:21
  3. 3Psycho
    5:17
  4. 4Mercy
    3:52
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    Chris Wolstenholme
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    Dominic Howard
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    Matt Bellamy
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    Matt Bellamy
    Vocals
    Matt Bellamy
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    Rich Costey, Tommaso Colliva
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    Olle “Sven” Rom
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    Adam Greenholtz
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    Matt Bellamy
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Marlo Borgatta
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    Eric Mosher, Giuseppe Salvadori, Jacopo Dorici, John Prestage, Tom Bailey
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    Chris Wolstenholme, Robert John Lange
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    Giovanni Versari
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    Rich Costey
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    Dominic Howard
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