Annotations for Dig Down

Lyric: With a gun to your head
Annotation:
The words ‘dig down’ mean to look inside yourself and find that inner strength to finally get yourself under some cover. You’ve finally found the thing that keeps you fighting back. The ‘gun to your head’ is a reference to someone else (in this case, powerful forces) forcing you to do something, so it’s not to be taken literally.

Lyric: When hope and love has been lost and you fall to the ground
 You must find a way
Annotation:
Dig Down was written in the first half of 2017 when the political landscape was turned on its head. Many people felt a wave of despair as the political rhetoric being used threatened some people’s freedoms and even their lives. “Hope and love” seem like foreign concepts when you’re bombarded with a constant “us vs. them” narrative but even when it seems like there’s no other way out you have to persevere.

Lyric: You must find a way
 
 Dig down
 Dig down
 Dig down, find faith
Annotation:
To  quote Matt Belamy: I was looking to counteract the current negativity in the world and give inspiration, optimism and hope to people to fight for the causes they believe in – that as individuals we can choose to change the world if we want to

Lyric: We won’t let them divide, we will never abide
 We will find a way
Annotation:
This line refers to  the second verse, where Matt explains that “people in control” try to divide us. Here, he says that they won’t succeed, that people like him will continue to fight.

Lyric: We have entered the fray and we will not obey
 We must find a way, yeah
Annotation:
We’re part of the system, but this doesn’t mean that we will follow the rules like almost everybody. Matt says that we’re different, that we’re not going to follow the rules that “they” (the powerful people from the first part of this verse) want us to accept.

Lyric: When friends are thin on the ground and they try to divide us
 We must find a way
Annotation:
This verse describes quite a bad situation: even if it’s very difficult to find true friends, and “they” (people who control us, powerful people) contribute to create a bad atmosphere between “us” (the rest of the world) to make it even harder to make friends, we must fight and “find a way”.

Lyric: When God decides to look the other way and a clown takes the throne
 We must find a way
 Face the firing squad, against all the odds
 You will find a way
Annotation:
The “clown” is a reference to President Donald Trump.   Matt Bellamy has been known to be vocal about Donald Trump in previous tweets, so fans suspected the “clown” referred to Trump.  This has been confirmed when  Matt replied to a tweet from a fan: https://twitter.com/spookyoceane/status/865300941972656129 https://twitter.com/MattBellamy/status/865301494412832769

