Citizen Erased

"Citizen Erased" is a song by English alternative rock band Muse from their second studio album Origin of Symmetry. The track is 7 minutes and 21 seconds long, making it the second longest single track in Muse's discography behind "The Globalist", the eleventh track from the band's seventh studio album Drones, and fourth longest piece. The song has a synthesized ending that leads straight into the next track on the album, "Micro Cuts". The song has long been a fan favourite, and in July 2007, a Muse fan site, Muselive.com, launched a campaign^[1] to get it into the singles charts through various download sources. The track managed to get to number one on the British download company 7digital's charts, but failed to make it into the UK Singles Chart. It did, however, chart at number 122.^[2] On 9 December 2010 in Sydney, Australia, Bellamy temporarily changed "Citizen Erased" to "Citizen Arrested" as a response to the Australian founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange's, arrest in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences.

Composition

Matthew Bellamy has described the song thus: "It's an expression of what it feels like to be questioned. I spend more time than most people being asked about purpose, and it's a strange feeling. I don't really have the answers and I have to respond on the knowledge I have obtained so far, but the problem is that it gets printed, and something else has come along that's made you completely disagree with what you said".

The guitar parts were recorded with a six-string guitar with the sixth string tuned down to A (AADGBE). Live, the guitar part is played on a seven-string, with the tuning, low to high, AADDGBE, the A strings an octave apart and the D strings at the same pitch.

Live performances

This song regularly appeared at the top of the "choose the setlist" polls Muse ran for their 2010 European summer tour, along with fellow fan-favourite song "Bliss", also from the band's second album. Bellamy noted the song as a fan favourite during the 4 September concert at the LCCC in Manchester and joked the band's official website will be changed to citizenerased.com.

Chart performance

Chart (2007)	Peak position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)^[2]	122

References

↑ Muselive.com, retrieved 2007-08-28
1 2 Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK: M – My Vitriol". zobbel.de. Tobias Zywietz. Retrieved 29 May 2015.

External links

Muse official website

Muse

Matt Bellamy Chris Wolstenholme Dominic Howard Touring member Morgan Nicholls

Studio albums	Showbiz Origin of Symmetry Absolution Black Holes and Revelations The Resistance The 2nd Law Drones

Live albums	Hullabaloo Soundtrack HAARP Live at Rome Olympic Stadium

Extended plays	Muse Muscle Museum Random 1–8

Videos	Hullabaloo: Live at Le Zenith, Paris Absolution Tour HAARP Live at Rome Olympic Stadium

Singles	"Uno" "Cave" "Muscle Museum" "Sunburn" "Unintended" "Plug In Baby" "New Born" "Bliss" "Hyper Music/Feeling Good" "Dead Star/In Your World" "Stockholm Syndrome" "Time Is Running Out" "Hysteria" "Sing for Absolution" "Apocalypse Please" "Butterflies and Hurricanes" "Supermassive Black Hole" "Starlight" "Knights of Cydonia" "Invincible" "Map of the Problematique" "Uprising" "Undisclosed Desires" "Resistance" "Exogenesis: Symphony" "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)" "Survival" "Madness" "Follow Me" "Supremacy" "Panic Station" "Dead Inside" "Mercy" "Revolt" "Aftermath" "Reapers"

Other songs	"Citizen Erased" "Micro Cuts" "Hyper Chondriac Music" "Assassin" "Who Knows Who" "United States of Eurasia" "The 2nd Law: Unsustainable" "Animals" "Psycho" "Defector" "The Globalist"

Concert tours	US Campus Invasion Tour 2005 Black Holes and Revelations Tour A Seaside Rendezvous The Resistance Tour The 2nd Law World Tour Psycho Tour Drones World Tour

Related articles	Awards Discography Songs Alessandro Cortini Daniel Newell

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