7 Chords used in the song: Fm, C, Ab, C#, Ddim, D#, D#7
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IntroC#m
VerseC#m
G#
repress and restrainE
G#
steal the pressure and the painC#m
G#
wash the blood off your handsE
G#
this time she won't understand
ChorusA
A#dim
change in the air and they'llB
B7
G#
hide everywhere noC#m
B7
E
one knows who's in control
Verse 2
you're working so hard
and never in charge
your death creates success
rebuild and suppress
Chorus
change in the air
and they'll hide everywhere
no one knows who's in control
(this part is just moving the little finger
to get the augmentations. Dont arpeggiate this bit)
listen to the song for the timing:
(C#m
C#m4
C#m) x2
(G#
G#aug
G# ) x2
(B
B4
B
B4
B) x2
(G#
G#aug
G# ) x2
(C#m
F
C#msus4
F
C#m) x2
(G#
G#aug
G# ) x2
(B
B4
B
B4
B) x2
(G#
G#aug
G# ) x2
Chorus
change in the air
and they'll hide everywhere
no one knows who's in control
Outro
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About this song: Ruled By Secrecy
Matthew Bellamy: "It's about some geezer who's come back from work and he's just kinda like shot everyone and blown everyone up, and he's come back to his wife with like a load of blood all over his hands going 'I've just blown it ... I lost it ... I lost the plot.' "The reason being because its slowly dawning on him that everything he is doing is out of his power." Ruled by Secrecy starts off very quiet, followed by an explosion of sound. It was one of the band's (and Tom Kirk's) favourite songs to play live during the Absolution tour.