United States Of Eurasia / Collateral Damage Lyrics

A song featuring stringed instrumentation reminiscent of the Lawrence of Arabia soundtrack by Maurice Jarre and "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney, and falsetto vocals reminiscent of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. The song's piano opening closely resembles that of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful". Its Phrygian dominant piano riff bears similarity to the "Parade of the Slave Children" theme from the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The song also features a somewhat altered recital of Nocturne Op.9 No.2 in Eb by Frédéric Chopin in its outro, "Collateral Damage". "Collateral Damage" features additional sounds such as children laughing and ends with the sound of a jet fighter. Collateral Damage, the outro to the song, was released on 21st July 2009 by download after the final station was activated. It is a piano recital of Nocturne In E-Flat Major, Op.9 No.2, by Frédéric Chopin, with a vocal/stringed accompaniment. The outro also features blurry childlike laughter, sounds of machine guns, explosions and ending with the sound of a jet fighter flying over head. In an interview with Absolute Radio, Matt said during the recording of United States of Eurasia + Collateral Damage, they wanted to have a lot of warfare type sound effects in addition to the kids playing and the jet taking off. "We wanted to go record sounds of real warfare.. we wanted to go to the middle east but it turns out that's not a good idea is it?". In the official sheet music for the song, there is a mistake in bar 79. In the tenth beat of the right hand, the B natural should be a B flat, as evidenced in the original Chopin sheet music.