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Glorious

Release date: 2007

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‘Glorious’ by Muse is a 2007 track with lyrics that take a rose-tinted view of love, while pointing to compromise, damaged intimacy, and a faith that both drives someone away and turns them on. The imagery is steeped in escalation, from bruises and a “hopeless embrace” to satellites, a universe-spanning rush, and language that frames deception as fuel. It reads like a deliberately self-contradicting declaration, romantic in tone and corrosive in implication, caught between wanting more and being propelled by lies rather than truth.

"Glorious" is a single by Muse, released 2007. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 19 articles about Muse.

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Glorious

Rose tinted view
And satellites that
Compromise the truth

But I wanted more
With the cuts and the bruises
Touch my face
A hopeless embrace

Faith
It drives me away
But it turns me on
Like a stranger's love

It rockets through the universe
It fuels the lies and feeds the curse
Believe we could be
Glorious
I need to believe

But I still want more
With the cuts and the bruises
Don't close the door
On what you adore

And faith
It drives me away
But it turns me on
Like a stranger's love
It rockets through the universe
It fuels the lies and feeds the curse
Believe we could be
Glorious

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Glorious

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