Cover art for Nature_1 by Muse
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Nature_1 Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Conforming on a Monday
Too often and too cold

[Pre-Chorus]
But you aren't even listening
Cause you are just
Too old to feel an earthquake
Too cool to even care

But you aren't even listening
So why should I?

[Chorus]
You are a natural disaster
And I've wanted you too much
And now I'm gonna lose
I've wanted you too much
And now I've gotta choose
You're the cause of all this
And I'm sick of trying to please you, yeah
And I'm gonna feel my emotions coming, yeah
Because you're the world

[Verse 2]
Like a broken dam, you're empty
And all that's left are the sticks and stones
That were built by other people
And it really shows

[Pre-Chorus]
But you aren't even listening
Cause you are just
Too old to feel an earthquake
Too cool to even care

But you aren't even listening
So why should I?

[Chorus]
You are a natural disaster
And I've wanted you too much
And now I'm gonna lose
I've wanted you too much
And now I've gotta choose
You're the cause of all this
And I'm sick of trying to please you, yeah
And I'm gonna feel my emotions coming, yeah
Because you're the world

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Genius Annotation

An old song in Muse’s catalogue, “Nature_1” was written around 1997, two years before the release of Showbiz. The few extant set lists from that year all have this song on them, possibly indicating that the band liked it and performed it often. It was recorded in 1999 but put aside for inclusion on Origin of Symmetry. However, when the time came, it was instead relegated to the b-side of the album’s lead single, “Plug In Baby,” because the band worried there were too many guitar songs in the album.
MuseWiki lists 6 potential interpretations:
“1. An affection for someone that has gone too far.
2. A song about God, saying how he isn’t even listening to what people are saying i.e. in their prayers.
3. Another leader who is destroying the world, such as in Take a Bow.
4. About a person who, despite his hard work to the world around him (trying to be #1), he is not acknowledged. Now he is in a rage. He now blames the world for his failure and has plots to create havoc and destroy the world around him to set things right.
5. About talking to the mirror, talking to yourself. Blaming yourself for all the bad things that have happened to you. Looking at the thing you’ve become-old, broken, cold; and this person is made by the world around you.
6. A rejection of the fashion of environmentalism (‘sick of trying to please you’), personifying the Earth as being cold and uncaring; it kills people with earthquakes it cannot even feel so ‘why should I?’ (engage in environmentalism). That the world has gone so wrong, Nature itself is a disaster.”

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Release Date
March 5, 2001
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