Citizen Erased

It was later given a new mix as part of Origin of Symmetry: XX Anniversary RemiXX in 2021 and was released as that album's lead single.

Chris Wolstenholme began playing to Howard's beat on bass guitar and Bellamy soon applied a chord structure, which resulted in the backbone of "Citizen Erased" being formed.

[14] Al Horner of NME described the lyrics as being about "forgetting what's gone before and exploring new worlds uninhibited and 'open-minded' – the way Bellamy attests we used to before being corrupted by our leaders.

"[5] He adds that the lyrics potentially reference George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where individuals are similarly "erased" and deeply affected by totalitarianism.

[17] Muse created a spiritual successor to the song in the form of the ten-minute-long "The Globalist", the eleventh track on their seventh studio album, Drones (2015).

[16] When Origin of Symmetry: XX Anniversary RemiXX was announced in 2021, "Citizen Erased" was released as the lead single from the remixed album.