"Knights of Cydonia" is a song by English rock band Muse and is the closing track on the British release of their 2006 album Black Holes & Revelations. The song's title comes in part from the region of Mars named Cydonia, famous for the "face on mars".
The song is also featured in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. It was also played on NBC during the 2008 summer olympics in Beijing right after Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal and broke Mark Spitz's record of "number of gold medals won in one Olympics".
Come ride with meThrough the veins of history
I'll show you how god
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
No one's gonna take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive
