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Shine

Release date: 19th November 2001

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'Shine' by Muse is a 2001 track. The lyrics frame a person looking back at a time of confidence and clarity, now replaced by creeping time, numbness, and loneliness, with lines that question what can be left once “the truth you yearned” has been sold. Its tone is regretful and questioning, moving from recollection to a more resigned present where feeling has gone flat and attention does not arrive.

"Shine" is a track by Muse, released 19th November 2001. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 19 articles about Muse.

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Shine

[Verse 1]

Who cares for the life we've earned

Someone sold all the truth you yearned

Remember when you used to shine?

And had no fear or sense of time

When it creeps up on you

[Verse 2]

You can't cry now, there's nothing to feel

No one's noticed our loneliness

Remember when you should have teased

And made us scream eternal joy

[Verse 3]

I believed that you'd always be here

Cause once you'd promised a life with no fear

Please don't break my ideals

And say what's fake was always real

Hope was the one, now I'm gone

Take me back again

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