Con-Science

'Con-Science' by Muse is a 1999 track whose lyrics worry at the gap between control and uncertainty, returning to a repeated inner push between fear and spirit. The speaker admits they cannot pretend, watches time slip away, and frames their life as a set of unresolved questions. Later verses present self-consumption and an attempt to bend rules, with a sense of being torn out of seclusion. With its return to “In fear” as a rhythmic refrain, the song feels like a conscience arguing with itself, trying and failing to reach a settled ending.