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knights of cydonia

Great Muse song from 'Black Holes and Revelations'. Is the longest song on the album at 6:06 minutes long, with just instrumentals at first, with no lyrics until 2:06 minutes in. The meaning of the song is quite hard to determine, but the following is my interpretation of it.

Cydonia is a region of Mars where life was rumoured to have once existed. The knights are either the 4 horsemen of the apocolypse or just plain knights. Either way, they tell the people of Cydonia that "God falls asleep on the job", encouraging them to destroy God, saying "how can we win, when fools can be kings?". The people of Cydonia destroy God, under the influence of the knights. In the future of this 'story', in todays present, the cycle has gone full circle, with Governments now in control, but are asleep on the job. This theory is the culmination of my and my friends opinions, and has not just been taken off the internet, so may of course be totally wrong, but I think it ties in well with the political nature of the album.

Another loose theory is that it's linked with 'Sing for Absolution', from one of Muse's older albums, 'Absolution', watch the video for 'Sing for Absolution' to see why.

I should also add this theory is totally unconnected to the video, as it was created before the video was even released. Seeing as most videos for Muse songs don't have anything to do with the meaning of the song but look good with the music, it could still be right.

Or perhaps it has no meaning and is just a random selection of words that sound good together.
I hope Muse play Knights of Cydonia when i see them play in November, it would sound great live.
by Forever Lost November 6, 2008
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Lost In cydonia

Someone who usually just lurks on chatboards, who has a lost look in their eyes when you ask what they are doing. ALso a valley on Mars.
Was Roger Lost in Cydonia last night or what?
by Sothias March 29, 2005
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lordnat of cydon

A freak from GameFAQS who belives the world will end in 2012 due to a book she 'found' however refusing to back it upwith pictures.
To many peoples display LordNat of Cydon/Underdark is actually a female, this was discovered when she finally posted pics of herself, many believed she was a boy as she looked at sites such as orient-doll.com
LordNat of Cydon is such a freak from P/C!
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cydork

A person that always has an electronic device attached to their body. The most popular expression of cydorkism is wearing bluetooth headsets.
Yeah, my dad always wears that bluetooth head set. What a cydork.
by Morgan Drake September 19, 2007
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CYDOLMONOCILIN

medication prescribed by pretend doctors who are caught in a precarious situation?
"I need 2000 mL of cydolmonocilin stat"
by beami April 1, 2008
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cydomd

Oh you dance cydomd ne t?
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