The Best Muse Songs Of All Time

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What is Muse's biggest hit? Here are the best Muse songs of all time, ranked by fans everywhere. The Grammy Award-winning English rock band redefined alternative rock at the turn of the century (i.e. Y2K) with their eccentric melancholic sound, mesmerizing vocals, and intoxicating instrumentals. Fusing classical music with electronic pop and science-fiction influence, Muse ultimately made their mark across the rock space with numerous hit singles in the UK's Top 40 and six number one albums, releasing a grand total of eight studio albums throughout their three-decade career: Showbiz (1999), Origin of Symmetry (2001), Absolution (2003), Black Holes and Revelations (2006), The Resistance (2009), The 2nd Law (2012), Drones (2015), and Simulation Theory (2018). Their ninth album Will of the People is slated for release on August 26, 2022.

From their new and latest music to their older popular songs, this Muse playlist features all of their greatest hits, according to the fans. Do your favorite Muse songs crack the top 10? Vote up the best songs by Muse, and don't forget to show their underrated tracks love as well.

Most divisive: Take a Bow

Over 400 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Muse Songs Of All Time

1
Stockholm Syndrome
200 votes
Best Lyrics:
Look to the stars
Let hope burn in your eyes
And we'll love and we'll hate and we'll die
All to no avail, all to no avail

This is the last time I'll abandon you
And this is the last time I'll forget you
I wish I could
2
Knights of Cydonia
256 votes
Best Lyrics:
Come ride with me through the veins of history
I'll show you a god who falls asleep on the job
And how can we win when fools can be kings?
Don't waste your time, or time will waste you
3
Hysteria
256 votes
Best Lyrics:
It's bugging me, grating me
And twisting me around
Yeah, I'm endlessly caving in
And turning inside out

'Cause I want it now, I want it now
Give me your heart and your soul
And I'm breaking out, I'm breaking out
Last chance to lose control
4
Uprising
202 votes
Best Lyrics:
They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
5
Plug In Baby
216 votes
Best Lyrics:
I've exposed your lies, baby
The underneath's no big surprise
Now it's time for changing
And cleansing everything
To forget your love

My plug in baby
Crucifies my enemies
When I'm tired of giving, whoa
My plug in baby
In unbroken virgin realities
Is tired of living
6
New Born
196 votes
Best Lyrics:
Destroy the spineless, show me it's real
Wasting our last chance to come away
Just break the silence
'Cause I'm drifting away, away from you
7
Citizen Erased
218 votes
Best Lyrics:
Wash me away
Clean your body of me
Erase all the memories
They'll only bring us pain
And I've seen all I'll ever need
8
Time Is Running Out
199 votes
Best Lyrics:
I wanted freedom, bound and restricted
I tried to give you up but I'm addicted
Now that you know I'm trapped, sense of elation
You'd never dream of breaking this fixation
You will squeeze the life out of me
9
Supermassive Black Hole
183 votes
Best Lyrics:
I thought I was a fool for no one
But ooh, baby, I'm a fool for you
You're the queen of the superficial
And how long before you tell the truth?
10
Map of the Problematique
195 votes
Best Lyrics:
Life will flash before my eyes
So scattered and lost
I want to touch the other side
And no one thinks they are to blame
Why can't we see
That when we bleed we bleed the same?

11
Bliss
152 votes
Best Lyrics:
Everything about you is how I'd wanna be
Your freedom comes naturally
Everything about you resonates happiness
Now I won't settle for less

Give me all the peace and joy in your mind

Everything about you pains my envying
Your soul can't hate anything
Everything about you is so easy to love
They're watching you from above
12
Starlight
204 votes
Best Lyrics:
Far away
This ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

Starlight
I will be chasing a starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore
13
Butterflies and Hurricanes
137 votes
Best Lyrics:
Best, you've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And use this chance to be heard
Your time is now (Your time is now)
14
Resistance
158 votes
Best Lyrics:
Is our secret safe tonight?
And are we out of sight?
Or will our world come tumbling down?
Will they find our hiding place?
Is this our last embrace?
Or will the walls start caving in?
15
Supremacy
125 votes
Best Lyrics:
Wake to see - your true emancipation is a fantasy
Policies have risen up and overcome the brave
Greatness dies, unsung and lost, invisible to history
Embedded spies brainwashing our children to be mean
16
Madness
143 votes
Best Lyrics:
I, I can't get these memories
Out of my mind
And some kind of madness
Is starting to evolve, mmmm
And I, I tried so hard to let you go
But some kind of madness
Is swallowing me whole, yeah
17
Reapers
130 votes
Best Lyrics:
Home, it's becoming a killing field
There's a crosshair locked on my heart
With no recourse and there's no one behind the wheel
Hellfire, you're wiping me out, killed by

Drones (killed by)
Drones (killed by)
18
Psycho
133 votes
Best Lyrics:
Love, it will get you nowhere
You're on your own
Lost in the wild
So come to me now
I could use someone like you
Someone who'll kill on my command
And asks no questions
19
Space Dementia
105 votes
Best Lyrics:
Space dementia in your eyes and
Peace will arise
And tear us apart
And make us meaningless again
20
Unintended
116 votes
Best Lyrics:
You could be my unintended
Choice to live my life extended
You could be the one I'll always love
You could be the one who listens
To my deepest inquisitions
You could be the one I'll always love

21
Undisclosed Desires
113 votes
Best Lyrics:
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty is not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart
22
Fury
86 votes
Best Lyrics:
Breathe in deep
And cleanse away our sins
And we'll pray that there's no God
To punish us and make a fuss
23
Feeling Good
104 votes
Best Lyrics:
Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
Reeds drifting on by, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good
24
Mercy
92 votes
Best Lyrics:
Help me, I've fallen on the inside
I tried to change the game, I tried to infiltrate but now I'm losing
Men in cloaks always seem to run the show
Save me from the ghosts and shadows before they eat my soul
25
United States of Eurasia
106 votes
Best Lyrics:
And these wars they can't be won
And these wars they can't be won
And do you want them to go on and on and on?
Why split these states, when there can be only one?
And must we do as we're told?
Must we do as we're told?
26
Dead Inside
100 votes
Best Lyrics:
Your lips feel warm to the touch
You can bring me back to life
On the outside, you're ablaze and alive
But you're dead inside
27
Take a Bow
103 votes
Best Lyrics:
Death, you bring death
And destruction to all that you touch
Pay, you must pay
You must pay for your crimes against the earth
And Hex, feed the Hex
Feed the Hex on the country you love
And beg, you will beg
You will beg for their lives and their souls
28
Dead Star
83 votes
Best Lyrics:
Shame on you for thinking
You're an exception
We're all to blame, crashing down to Earth
Wasting and burning out, yeah
Fading like a dead star, woah woah
Harm is coming your way
Yeah, it's coming your way
29
Glorious
79 votes
Best Lyrics:
Faith
It drives me away
But it turns me on
Like a stranger's love
It rockets through the universe
It fuels the lies and feeds the curse
Believes we could be glorious