Not many people know what the song is really about, not even many Muse fans. Matt has said (on one occasion about 22 years ago) that the song is about admiring how a child can radiate happiness. "Everything about you resonates happiness". Just pure joy and bliss, without having to worry about anything, without any adult responsibilites, without having been exposed to stuff in life yet. And he said that he misses that feeling of being a child and would want to experience it again as an adult. "Everything about you is so easy to love, they're watching you from above" literally means adults looking down at children and loving them. "Everything about you is how I'd wanna be, your freedom comes naturally". A child can be completely in the moment, completely free, and be happy. And Matt envies that. "Everything about you pains my envying". He wants that for himself. "Give me all the peace and joy in your mind, I want the peace and joy in your mind". We've all had that when we were kids, but we grew out of it slowly. We can remember things from our childhood, but none of us really remember what it felt like being a child and what that carefree state of mind was like. "Your soul can't hate anything". A child is incapable of hating anything or anyone the same way adults are. If something hurts a child, they might cry for a minute, but they will forget it in an instant and go on living their blissful, happy existence without growing to hate it. Another interesting thing is that the background synth track is pretty much stolen from the theme music to a 1992 kids video game called Top Gear for the Super Nintendo (not that anyone ever sued Matt over it). Literally a game for kids. And a third interesting fact: In the early 2000's, they used to play this song live all the time with those huge balloons unleashed upon the audience about halfway through the song. Those balloons are literally something that kids would go crazy over, not adults, because adults don't care about balloons. Kids would jump up and down out of joy if they had balloons like that. But so did the audience. For a brief moment, the people in the audience got to feel that bliss and joy of being a child, lost in the present moment. All in all, it's a song about kids! :D

@Adiaf8oros

8 ай бұрын

Man what a great comment. Thank you. And of course, all hail Muse, what a band..

I hate when people are saying, that Matt and God are the same person! Like yes, he's really good, but still he is not Matt!

Never have I felt the pure and raw emotion of a band so much in one song

@franciscocordeiro9426

2 жыл бұрын

This was the concert in 2001 that introduce me to this band, amazing skills and emotion.

That is intense. Bliss, album version awesome but when it's live it takes it to whole other level.

This is what happiness looks like! just perfection

@NightDweller

6 жыл бұрын

Alessia 98 bliss

@nutriarider352

6 жыл бұрын

This is the fucking's coldplay's clocks 2:42

@idoomsday1202

5 жыл бұрын

Clocks has been released after bliss

@NgVene

Жыл бұрын

@@nutriarider352 for ur information, Bliss came out on 2001, clocks came out on 2002 🤷

@hoguemusic9706

Жыл бұрын

​@nutriarider352 it's not even the same progression you dope. It's literally just arpeggios in the same time signature as clocks 🙄 Epic fail comment

everything about muse is so easy to love

@miguelpereira9859

Ай бұрын

Olá

4:50 Muse knew they're living their dream as a band so they just had to break everything to celebrate it.

High quality is relative when it was filmed with a potato but still looks beautiful

@filippobelfortini2757

6 жыл бұрын

iKiel2012 It's actually more than 13 fps and that's already impressive

3:38 Love this moment xD

Freaking heck you crazies. They're bursting with so much energy in their early 2000s live shows, it's freaking infectious. Whenever I watch one I feel like I could run a mile in a minute.

I love Hullabaloo. Energizes me!!! Bliss is one of my favorite songs

This was recored 9 years ago approximately 350 miles away from where I am now, I've seen this video hundreds of times before and yet every time I watch it sends chills down my spine! Everyone who was there for that concert had the most incredible experience and I will envy them for ever. TUUUUUUUNE!!!

lol matt jumps and dom while chris pushes the kit over!! Haha! They have so much fun when theyre performing, great to watch!!! :D

this is the best performance of bliss live i have heard!!

I love this song and I love MUSE.. the band has always fun doing live shows and they always put so much energy and feeling into it.. the vibe in the crowd and even in the air is incredible. I really admire that.. :)

french audiance is amazing

PURE ENERGY AND ECSTASY!!!

3:42, bass is less sharp than guitar

this is how you end a show. I really missed this badass Muse. :'(

I've never seen them so happy. Especially Christopher :P. That's what bliss is all about, right?

only muse could do that, thata why we love them!!!

No alcanzan las palabras para describir lo que expresan, gracias totales

how can you NOT love this?! i've got goosebumps, i'm sweating like a prostitute in a church and my heart is racing. Dude, i love muse!

i think this was probably one of their best songs performed live and the guitar solo was perfect

i love how he plays the solo and then just starts to crush the balloons.

the bass in this is just thumpin man those variations in the chorus are soooo good

oh man the atmosphere at that place must have been electric.

One of the best Muse songs, so glad they've been playing it and also MOTP in gigs this year :D

The way this song kicks in is amazing

You don´t know what living means untill you have been to a muse concert

I watch this daily...and no I'm not kidding

i love how they completely destroy the stage when they're done! muse is the best!

for only 360p, this is the highest quality band i've ever seen!

3:37 = Bliss, right there.

Best band of the last 10 years!!! God freaking bless Muse!!!

taken from the best live dvd ever.....

That's how you finish a concert.

I like how they start off with the song. I even think it's better than the studio version. It's starts off calm, then goes BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SYNTHESIZERS, DRUMS, BASSLINE, AND GUITAR = TOTAL BLISS. WHAT MORE CAN YOU GET FROM THIS LIVE VERSION????? It's simply a rare jewel.

Muse deserve best band in the universe

A man of Bellamy's mind should not be limited to mere mortality.

when you say you want to be famous everybody tells you it's a hard life, but when you can do a concert like this you know you'd do everything for it, everything about this it's how i wanna be

The DVD is TOTALLY WORTH IT, AND THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. Every song in the set list is played exquisitely and much more better than the studio version. Take a look at Bliss! It's start in the live version changes everything that the studio version has done. It makes much more impact as it goes all out with the synthesizers, guitar, bass, and drums from which it came from as an unexpected calm, steady intro.

aww dang it, that was our first song!

if god can listen to music , Muse would be his favourite band. !

could some one make an audio file of this video, this is my favorite version of bliss, it's so..... GREAT!!!

If there is a God, this is the music he listens to!

i'm watcing this 10 times/day!

the most incredible thing about this performance is the bass pedal staying on the bass drum at the end!!

They used to be so much fun. Now they don't do these kind of silly things anymore...I miss them the way they were before *cries*

its such a shame that muse have gone down hill since this was filmed, i mean 'i belong to you' and 'neutron star collision don';t sent shivers down your spine like this

I think he wants peace and joy, I'm not sure tho.

this one's wonderful - I love the end and that guitar solo, improvising...

He still is and always will be.

Such an amazing performance :) I love how Matt goes mad at the end and jumps on Chris, aswell as Dom's drum kit lmao they are true gods :D

saw them at the o2 last night, first time in six years. jesus it was bad. watching this to cleanse my soul.

@davorm5

7 жыл бұрын

farroj04 saw them too and thought it was one of the best performances ive seen

Best version ❤️👍

If anyone asks you why muse has won all there live band awards... Just simply show them this video. Muse........ Fucking awesome.....

wish they threw this in setlists more often today, but all in all can't complain, at least I get to see them live!

Muse, my love.

I fucking came while watching and listening to this for the first time. Now, 2 years later, i haven't changed underwear!

This proves originality isn't dead!!!

There is only one thing to state: Muse is awesome ;D

@Y0uAreMyMuse Translation: Shit, I love this song... It has so much power and is so nostalgic...

best bliss performance

That'll be the end of that Drum Kit then... LOL. What a fucking great performance, I've never seen anything like it, it was just totally mental!!!

never will we see MUSE this raw and epic again...so unfortunate that I didn't know them back in the early 2000s when they were still this insane :((((

This just cheers my soul.

A brilliant song one of my faves

Dom: ...But I liked those drums! :( Matt: Well I didn't! ;)

"I want the peace and joy in your miiii...." BALLOON!!

Okay, time to finish the chorus of this s- OH WAIT A BALLOON

the final riff is awsome!

This performance is so much more raw than at Reading

@CliffRichardsPissSac I completely agree with you. Very true, well said.

Doctor says you have 6 minutes to live, ok I already know what to listen to.

NO words to describe that. Amazing

I wasn't really a fan of this song until I saw this. True story.

poor dom.. missing out on all the balloon popping action! :(

miss that days U_U

hell yea im with ya with that one man

3:29 Matt's like f*** it! I don't want to sing the final verse, I wanna balloon!

Best version ever!!!

Muse, radiohead and coldplay in that order

When God hears them play this song he says "but I already gave you all the bliss in the world, how else would you be so awesome?!"

And that´s a true rock band my students.!

I'm sitting in front of my computer watching a performance thousands of miles (or kilometers) away from the site of this performance... and the amount of energy I get from it is phenomonal... I wondered how the live people at this survived...

this is my favorite muse song :) of the album... ;)

My kids are going to grow up listening to MUSE, no matter what! Even if they split (which sadly will happend someday.. I'll listen to MUSE until I die!)

One of those moments when it seems like the stage can't contain Matt.

I'd say Citizen Erased is the best song of this decade. Live or not. And one of the 10 best songs of all time.

they`re so crazy... love them^^

Things like this are just so great I wonder if Muse is just a completely awsome figment of my imagination. Okay...I little dramatic but still. Muse forever!!!

@Y0uAreMyMuse Translation Shit, I love this song... It has so much power and so nostalgic.

muse is a pretty good band.... HAHA UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR THEY ARE THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN ON A STAGE

Best performance ever!!!

That has got to be one of the bst endings EVER! :D

gives me all i need

he puts extra spin in the balloon stabbing

I got rejected to this song about 6 months ago, I really thought I had something with her y'know, it felt special, everytime I listen now I think of her, it's hard to listen to a song with so many mixed feelings attached. When I hear the song I just think about what I could've had, and it gets me everytime. The raw emotion of the song hits me somewhere inside, and I feel a pang of regret for not being patient, for not getting to know her better. I've got over it in every other way, problem is, I love this song too much to let go of. I have a partner now, and I'm happy, but a part of me will always hurt when thinking of how low I felt at that moment in time, if I'd just left it a little longer, I probably would feel ok listening to this song, I'd have probably had a chance. I'm in a happy relationship, but I can't even bring myself to talk to her now, I miss having her as a friend, I can get over my feelings for her, but we've drifted and I don't know what to do, I'm too awkward to simply say it, and talking to my boyfriend now will just make me feel worse, I don't want sympathy, I just need to say something, even on some random part of the internet. O hit a low point in my life recently, and my boyfriend is the only thing that's stopped me from leaving. Sorry for the comment, I needed to get it out of my system.

the end is mindblowing