Hyper MUSEic and The Human Equasion

“You wanted more then I was worth.
And you think I was scared,
and you needed proof.
Who really cares anymore?
Who restrains?”
–HyperMusic & Hyper Chondriac Music by Muse

I was listening to Muse the other day, and found that two songs (on separate albums) have the exact same lyrics and same vocal melody line. But the songs couldn’t be more different. HyperMusic and Hyper Chondriac Music are about the exact same thing, but they couldn’t be more different.

Hyper Chondriac Music is played on a single nylon stringed guitar. The chords are strummed, and then strange sound effects fill the song, giving body. Discordant harpsichord runs and distortion scrambling. Then Matt’s voice comes out of the almost silence to sing what seems to be a depressed song about love lost. The song builds up, with a piano riff playing eternally in the background. Then out of the calm comes a heavily distorted electric guitar playing a mournful solo. It truly is amazing hearing something so angry and heavy playing something so mournful and depressing. “I don’t love you” croons Matt, with sadness ringing through his trembling vibrato “and I never will…” The song concluded with a cacophony of strange noises and distortion.

HyperMusic starts with the sound of a string being pulled to its full potential, and before almost snapping, goes straight into the fast, heavy riff that becomes the centre of the song. The drums play an infectious line that makes you want to get up and jump around! Matt comes in, screaming at the full potential of his falsetto. It’s an angry song, about love failed, and with the random screaming of lines in the background, makes it out that this person did not want that love to end. “I don’t love you!!” screams Matt, almost like he doesn’t want to hear what he’s saying “and I never will!!”

I haven’t ever seen this kind of thing done before, with exactly the same vocal line being used in two totally different songs, but the effect created is amazing. It really does bring out the fact that there is two sides to every story, and that emotions never come in ones.

Losing a person you love, no matter who it is or how you lose them, is probably the most traumatic thing a human being goes through in life. From death to rejection, the subtraction of love from a human life is the single most destructive thing in the universe.

Somebody once told me that death is the opposite of love, this is not true. Death is a product of love. Millions die every day, and we don’t know, because we don’t love them. How can we? We’ve never met these people. If we don’t know about it, don’t have knowledge of it, then death doesn’t exist. But when one person dies that you love, the world collapses. And everybody dies, right? Therefore, loving somebody automatically creates death, because death is only seen and felt when we love the person who dies.

Love creates death in our lives, and couple that with the fact that love blinds truth; and you have the proof that love is the most powerful emotion in the human body.

What other emotion has the power to create life and death?

That is why love is essential to human life. It doesn’t counter death and balance the human equation; it is the human equation.

If you want to learn about death, you have to throw away all previous thoughts you have ever known about it. The number one thought you must throw away is that death is the opposite of life. Even though this might be true, this can create the impression that they are constantly against each other, or that (God forbid) one is good while the other is bad.

Death has been blown into this idea that it is a thing to be feared, or worshipped, or respected, or avoided. Death can only be the beginning of new life (or true life, even). There is one fact on Earth that proves that there is another ‘shade’ of life waiting for us after death:

Earth is the perfect training ground. Why would we learn so much and build so much skill only to lose it?

Let’s go through some theories of death, and discuss:

- When we die, we are united with God in heaven. We are cleansed of all sins and become perfect like Him. We spend eternal happiness with God in heaven: The most common of all death theories, the Christian one. ‘Eternal Happiness’?! I couldn’t imagine anything more horrifying. I pray to God this is false. ‘We become perfect like Him’?! While yes, God is perfect, he sure as hell wouldn’t be if he made us perfect as well! Perfection, uhg *shudders*. If this theory is true, I would rather nothing.

- When we die, our spirit is reborn with no memories, into a different body. After seven lives, we gain enough experience to move into Nirvana, the state of perpetual knowledge and inner peace: Can’t remember wether this is Buddhist or Hindi, but meh. They say we start at the small forms of life and get a better body each time, and that human is the last one. So in the end, it’s really the same basic principle as the Christian one.

-When you die, there is nothing: The hardest to believe. The others I can believe (even if I don’t really), this one I cannot. But if this was true, then God would be like a machine. Pumping out new ones and discarding of the old, the ultimate industrial business. An atheists oasis ;)


My beliefs? I believe that there is another plane of existence out there that we are getting ready for. I don’t know how to explain it, but I can see myself living eternally (and I mean LIVING eternally, none of this perfection crap).

Life is our heaven, enjoy it before you enter death and what lies beyond.