Sing for Absolution

Single infobox |
Name = Sing for Absolution


Artist = Muse
from Album = Absolution
B-side = "Fury"
Released = May 17 2004
Format = 7", CD, DVD
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock Progressive rock
Length = 4:54
Label = East West Records
Producer = Rich Costey, Muse
Chart position = * #5 (Netherlands)
* #16 (United Kingdom)
* #47 (France)
NoReviews =
Last single = "Hysteria" (December 2003)
This single = "Sing for Absolution" (May 2004)
Next single = "Apocalypse Please" (August 2004)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Absolution
Type = studio
prev_track = "Time Is Running Out"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "Sing For Absolution"
track_no = 4
next_track = "Stockholm Syndrome"
next_no = 5
Misc = Extra album cover
Background = khaki
Upper caption = Promotional CD Cover


Lower caption = "Sing for Absolution" is a song by Muse from their third studio album, "Absolution". It was released in May 2004 as the fourth single from that album, peaking at #16 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2004 in British music). The song also appears on the "Absolution Tour" DVD. A live acoustic version of the song serves as a B-side for the "Butterflies and Hurricanes" single. Usually it is played live with the guitars tuned half a step down.

Video

This video was produced by ARK of Sheffield, UK and released in May 2004. It depicts a populated civilised planet, probably a "New Earth" on which humans have settled. Muse are on a rocket heading into space. Along the way, they pass through galaxies and media boards saying "the ice age is coming". Muse's rocket docks into a 'Cryo Module' which in the video reveals that it is a place where hundreds of people are frozen in cryogenic stasis, and that it could be speculated that Muse's mission is the populate the planet they are travelling to. The rocket collides with an asteroid and crashes on an orange desolate planet, speculated to be Earth in the distant future. As the camera zooms out, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in London can be seen as ruins.

Track listing

UK versions

*7" EW285, CD EW285CD
#"Sing for Absolution" - 4:55
#"Fury" - 5:02
#*Previously released on the Japanese version of "Absolution" as a bonus track.
*DVD EW285DVD
#"Sing for Absolution" (video)
#"Sing for Absolution" (audio)
#"Sing for Absolution" (making of the video)
#"Big Day Off" (video)
#Artwork Gallery of the band

Dutch versions

Released by Pias RecordsFact|date=February 2007
*CD1 Pias-482.2023.122
#"Sing for Absolution" (radio edit)
#"Bliss" (live)
#*Recorded at Ahoy', November 6 2003
#"Sunburn" (live)
#*Recorded at Ahoy', 6 November 2003
#"Feeling Good" (live)
#*Recorded at Ahoy', 6 November 2003
*CD2 Pias-482.2023.172
#"Sing for Absolution" (album version)
#"Time Is Running Out" (video)
#"Hysteria" (video)
#"Sing for Absolution" (video)
*CD3 Pias-482.2023.125
#"Sing for Absolution"
#"Time Is Running Out" (live)"
#"Ruled By Secrecy (live)"
#"The Small Print (live)"

External links

* [http://www.muse.mu Muse] - official website.