Uprising is the opening track and first single from The Resistance (2009), Muse's fifth album. Matt Bellamy wrote the lyrics inspired by the 2008 financial crisis, the G20 protests and the feeling that "they" (banks, governments, system) try to control everything.It became the biggest hit of their career in the US: #1 on Billboard's Alternative Songs for 17 weeks (record at the time), #37 on the Hot 100 (the band's only top 40 to date) and voted the best song in Alternative Songs history in the