Starlight
Muse Lyrics
Far away
This ship is takin' me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die
The starlight
I will be chasing a starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore
I just wanted to hold you in my arms
My life
You electrify my life
Let's conspire to ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive
I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away
And our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
And our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold you in my arms
Far away
This ship has taken me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die
And I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations, yeah
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
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Written by: Matthew James Bellamy
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"Starlight" is a song by British alternative rock band Muse and is the second track on their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations. It was released on 4 September 2006 in the United Kingdom as the second single from "Black Holes and Revelations". The song peaked at #13 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also the second single released in the United States, reaching number two on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was first played live during the Radio 1's Big Weekend festival in summer 2006. Read Full Bio"Starlight" is a song by British alternative rock band Muse and is the second track on their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations. It was released on 4 September 2006 in the United Kingdom as the second single from "Black Holes and Revelations". The song peaked at #13 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also the second single released in the United States, reaching number two on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was first played live during the Radio 1's Big Weekend festival in summer 2006. In live performances "Starlight" is usually played half a step down from the key of B used on Black Holes & Revelations.
"Starlight" was first written in the band's practice studio in late 2004. Bassist Chris Wolstenholme said that it is "a love song about missing someone, friends, family, someone you love." Lead singer Matt Bellamy commented that he first wrote the song on a boat in bad weather.
In a separate interview with Tom Wilson and Lara Mathews, posted on MuseLive Forums, Wolstenholme was asked what he thought "was the hardest song on the album to record?" His response was "Starlight," stating it "was one of the songs we went around in circles with, and we recorded maybe six or seven different versions of it."
An alternative mix of "Starlight", known as the "New Mix, "Radio Mix" or "Radio Version" was distributed on promotional media only. This version was presumably created to give the song a sound more suitable for radio broadcast.
Muse worked with Paul Minor on Starlight's music video, which was filmed in Los Angeles. In the video, the band perform on the deck of the MS Ocean Chie, a handysize bulk carrier. Band members are also carrying flares, in an attempt to "get rescued," but in the end this fails and they are abandoned. This relates to the song's lyrics, which mentions ships and abandonment.
Matthew Bellamy stated in an interview with The Sunday Mail that the band wanted to "create the idea of a band lost at sea because we see ourselves as being outside what's happening in the music scene." He also told the interviewer, Billy Sloan, that "it was an epic feeling playing on a huge platform with the sea all around us."
"Starlight" received mixed critical reviews, from various publishers.
NME's review was harshly critical of the song, with the reviewer stating that the song "is a tune so chart-hungry it's virtually dry-humping JK and Joel's legs."
MusicOMH stated that the song was "a track perfectly at home on drivetime radio" while saying it "showcases another side to the band's music and their staggering breadth of appeal."
Meanwhile, Leeds Music Scene reviewer Maria Pinto-Fernandes gave "Starlight" a glowing review, with a score of 4.5 stars out of 5. In her review, she commented that "the band's musical arrangements on the track do not come into being just by accident." She also stated that the song was just as passionate when performed live as when heard on CD.
"Starlight" entered the UK Singles Chart the week of September 3 at number 38 via digital downloads. The following week, and with the physical release in the United Kingdom, the single peaked at number 13. Since then, the single's chart position steadily declined, and it remained in the Top 75 after fifteen weeks, during the week of December 11, 2006. The next week, "Starlight" had fallen out of the Top 75.
"Starlight" has also peaked at number two on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, Muse's second highest charting single to date on any major chart in the US. It also charted in at number nine on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006. It was also ranked at number four on Colombian radio station Radiónica's 2006 top 100.
"Starlight" was first written in the band's practice studio in late 2004. Bassist Chris Wolstenholme said that it is "a love song about missing someone, friends, family, someone you love." Lead singer Matt Bellamy commented that he first wrote the song on a boat in bad weather.
In a separate interview with Tom Wilson and Lara Mathews, posted on MuseLive Forums, Wolstenholme was asked what he thought "was the hardest song on the album to record?" His response was "Starlight," stating it "was one of the songs we went around in circles with, and we recorded maybe six or seven different versions of it."
An alternative mix of "Starlight", known as the "New Mix, "Radio Mix" or "Radio Version" was distributed on promotional media only. This version was presumably created to give the song a sound more suitable for radio broadcast.
Muse worked with Paul Minor on Starlight's music video, which was filmed in Los Angeles. In the video, the band perform on the deck of the MS Ocean Chie, a handysize bulk carrier. Band members are also carrying flares, in an attempt to "get rescued," but in the end this fails and they are abandoned. This relates to the song's lyrics, which mentions ships and abandonment.
Matthew Bellamy stated in an interview with The Sunday Mail that the band wanted to "create the idea of a band lost at sea because we see ourselves as being outside what's happening in the music scene." He also told the interviewer, Billy Sloan, that "it was an epic feeling playing on a huge platform with the sea all around us."
"Starlight" received mixed critical reviews, from various publishers.
NME's review was harshly critical of the song, with the reviewer stating that the song "is a tune so chart-hungry it's virtually dry-humping JK and Joel's legs."
MusicOMH stated that the song was "a track perfectly at home on drivetime radio" while saying it "showcases another side to the band's music and their staggering breadth of appeal."
Meanwhile, Leeds Music Scene reviewer Maria Pinto-Fernandes gave "Starlight" a glowing review, with a score of 4.5 stars out of 5. In her review, she commented that "the band's musical arrangements on the track do not come into being just by accident." She also stated that the song was just as passionate when performed live as when heard on CD.
"Starlight" entered the UK Singles Chart the week of September 3 at number 38 via digital downloads. The following week, and with the physical release in the United Kingdom, the single peaked at number 13. Since then, the single's chart position steadily declined, and it remained in the Top 75 after fifteen weeks, during the week of December 11, 2006. The next week, "Starlight" had fallen out of the Top 75.
"Starlight" has also peaked at number two on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, Muse's second highest charting single to date on any major chart in the US. It also charted in at number nine on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006. It was also ranked at number four on Colombian radio station Radiónica's 2006 top 100.
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Zaiany Oliveira
Far away
This ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die
Starlight
I will be chasing a starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms
My life
You electrify my life
Let's conspire to ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive
I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms
Far away
This ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die
I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations, yeah
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms
I just wanted to hold
Juan Camacho
Far away
This ship has taken me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die
Starlight
I will be chasing a starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms
My life
You electrify my life
Let's conspire to ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive
I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations..
Cataline
Hi !
I'm the author of the original comment.. I'm still alive!!!!
I have no idea why I've never seen the comments before..
It's crazy to read this. Spoiler alert.. I did go on a cruise a few months ago !
I think this comment unconsciously made me realize, a change a lot of things..
life rant, you should skip it!
2022 has been crazy for me. I'm still sick, way sicker than I was when I wrote this comment. My body was damaged pretty bad from multiple sepsis episodes and bad care.
But this year has been the absolute best year of my life. I'm defying the odds !! I've been living a wild, YOLO life.
Music is my passion.. and I got to attend live shows and travel internationally ! I have NOT seen Muse live though.. but I will haha ! I finally got to see my fav band live after being a hardcore fan for over a decade !
I've been living all my dreams ! I am no longer bedbound and I am no longer using a wheelchair ! I got my first tattoo ! I got to dye my hair ! I got to live on my own ! I got to try coffee for the first time ! I got to lick pizza !!! I got to meet a lot of people, I even got my first kiss.. I got attend live shows, I got to spend hours looking at the sky and witness beautiful sunsets, I got to go on a cruise, I got to travel to Italy, France, and solo travel to USA. With my medical stuff !
Last October I got the chance to go to USA and my life will never be the same. I found a home there. That trip was a very chaotic one, but it was the most meaningful thing I've ever experienced. I am not really a religious person, but I truly believe I was meant to end up there. I spent my life chasing something, and that thing is a home. (Aren't we all?). Not health, but home. I found it.
In the middle of chaos (from having nowhere to sleep, money issues, no cellphone, to ending up in a stranger's white van!), I found "my" people, "my" place. I found Home.
My goal in 2023 is be to spend more time there.. and eventually move here.
I honestly don't know if it will ever happen. Probably not, because my country won't allow it. But I have faith. And home.. is mostly a place of mind. Far from eyes but close to heart..
All the things I've done this year were "impossible".
The hidden part of these accomplishments.. is that everything was unsafe or I wasn't allowed to do them. It's not me being "special".. but actually me not giving a f what people say and being very stubborn !
I learned the hard way that disabled people (in my country) don't have the same rights as "normal" citizens, and traveling is very restricted.. But I'm not hopeless. I deeply believe this is where I belong and I will fight for that.
This year has been a big flight with my country of citizenship. This year, my country has decided to drastically reduce my access to medical care as I'm "costly". I know life support is expensive, I know I've been defying the odds, but not allowing me to see doctors, and slowly stopping life support.. I never thought it would be possible. It sounds like a big lie right.. ? It's so messed up. It's a very ugly fight between my country and I to keep these life lines and continue to live.. 3 weeks ago they stopped hydration, meds and I am struggling to get a referral to see a cardiologist despite having infective endocarditis and showing signs of heart failure. The "various lines and machines" are all gone and I am left with only one IV line (TPN) to keep me alive..
So.. we'll see.
I never EVER though I would get to experience all these things. Of course I am eager to experience more, I love life, I love living, I want to experience the best, the bad, the ugly, the incredible, the random and the insignificant of life.. And knowing that my health is mainly deteriorating because of political issues is upsetting. I am no different than other people. My body is broken, my body is failing.. but I'm not. 2022, and that home.. made me realize that I'm not my broken body, and I'm not a failure.
I'm so grateful for.. everything.
I'm so glad I found my old comment ! I am turning 22 tomorrow and I honestly don't have the words to describe how grateful I am.
I wonder what my next update will be !
Miracles do exist. Living.. is magical. It's wonderful.
And if someone read it all.. woah. You deserve a treat my friend haha ! And please, take care of yourself. And by that I mean.. go YOLO ! ✨❤️
If someone wants to chat, I'm here. I think I got the notification thing right so I will now see if someone writes a comment.
I will for sure update after I see Muse live haha !!
Oh and I want to thank everyone for your sweet words !!! It's crazy what a song can do..
Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions
One of my dad's favorites. He's a huge Muse fan and this is a favorite of mine too
Cryptati0n
My dad is the one who got me in to Muse. I feel you.
JJRicks Studios
Hey dude, I love your crash documentaries! Cool to see you here
Ella
This song reminds me of my dad as it’s his favourite too
Seewead101
In my opinion this is a perfect song. Peaks and valkeys with perfect hook that touches the heart. Not to many songs like this out there .
Stephen Hernandez
I AGREE 100%! 😁😁😁😁😁😎😎😎😎😎😍😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭😭💖💖💖💖💖✊✊✊✊✊🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Guilherme Campos
There's a song that has this same vibe that I really like. I hope you will, too. It's "Circus Maximus - Flames"
Heavy Metal Nerd
Yeah. It also has a kinda modern pop sound which I normally don't find very appealing but here it sounds awesome.😃
cyprian chewe
2023 & it still sounds just as phenomenal 🔥
mimi
que música bonita <3