Supermassive Black Hole Lyrics

"Supermassive Black Hole" is a song by English alternative rock band Muse, featured on their 2006 fourth studio album Black Holes & Revelations. When released as the lead single from the album in June 2006, backed with "Crying Shame", the song charted at number four on the UK Singles Chart, the highest singles chart position the band has achieved to date. The song was also used in the 2008 movie Twilight in the baseball game sequence, and subsequently was used in the soundtrack. On the 8th of May, 2008, the song was released as downloadable content for the rhythm game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, along with Stockholm Syndrome and Exo-Politics. A version of the song was also featured on FIFA 07's playlist, this version of the song contains a more distorted guitar. It is also the only Muse song to feature a distorted snarl. Bellamy (Muse vocalist, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter) said that the song was "the most different to anything we've ever done". Influences included Luke Schofield, and bands such as The Beatles, Millionaire, dEUS, Evil Superstars and Soulwax. Bellamy said that "these groups were the first to mix R&B rhythms with alternative guitar. We've added a bit of Prince and Kanye West. The drumbeat isn't rocky, with Rage Against the Machine riffs underneath. We’ve mixed a lot of things in this track, with a bit of electronica; it’s different, slow, quite funky." In an interview with NME, Bellamy said "I was going out dancing in clubs around New York. That helped create tracks like "Supermassive Black Hole". Franz Ferdinand would have done it very well, with that dance type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar and I've always wanted to find that." The single's accompanying music video shows the band playing in a small furniture shop, clad in masks. This is intercut with images of dancers in Zentai suits which are then unzipped at the end to reveal beings made of space. The video was directed by Floria Sigismondi, who is also known for directing videos for such alternative bands as Marilyn Manson, The White Stripes, Interpol, Incubus and The Cure. The concept for the video has been stated by Sigismondi as a replication of a recurring dream she has experienced, in which dancers wearing masks of their own faces or mirrors and full body suits fill a dark mirrored room. There are also flashes of a black circle, which is symbolic of supermassive black holes themselves. "Supermassive Black Hole" was the first single released from Black Holes and Revelations in the UK on 19 June 2006, available on vinyl, CD, DVD and digital download formats. It peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart, making it their most popular single released in the UK to date. In the US it was the third single to be released, on April 23, 2007. The single reached #6 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, making it the fourth highest-charting Muse single in the US behind "Starlight", "Uprising" and "Resistance". The single's B-side, "Crying Shame", was first performed on 19 December 2004 at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The key was changed during the 2005 tour, and the studio track omits the riff found in the earlier live version. The lyrics also appear to have changed, and this is the first studio release in which lead singer Bellamy uses profanity.