Screenager

'Screenager' by Muse is a 2001 song from the album 'Origin of Symmetry'. Its lyrics tackle adolescent self-image and the brutal disconnect between who someone pretends to be and who they actually are, with imagery of isolation, hurt, and concealment. Lines such as “Stop your screaming” lean into a sense of forced quiet, as the speaker urges the subject to hide the visible damage and rewrite their past. The song moves like a pointed address, circling the same self-recognition and self-denial, and ending on a cold sense that the old self can be erased, at least from view.