You Tube Lyrics of 23 Nov 2015: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

  • Larry Chamberlin
    8 years ago

    If there is a more complexly orchestrated rock anthem than this one I've never heard it. Quadrophenia comes close, but no single cut from the Opera matches Mercury's opus. Freddie was an opera buff himself and it is no coincident the song first appeared on Queen's album A Night at the Opera. The link to the official video follows the lyrics.

    Bohemian Rhapsody
    performed by Queen
    written by Freddie Mercury

    Is this the real life?
    Is this just fantasy?
    Caught in a landslide
    No escape from reality
    Open your eyes
    Look up to the skies and see
    I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
    Because I'm easy come, easy go
    A little high, little low
    Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

    Mama, just killed a man
    Put a gun against his head
    Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
    Mama, life had just begun
    But now I've gone and thrown it all away
    Mama, ooo
    Didn't mean to make you cry
    If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
    Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

    Too late, my time has come
    Sends shivers down my spine
    Body's aching all the time
    Goodbye everybody I've got to go
    Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
    Mama, ooo (anyway the wind blows)
    I don't want to die
    I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

    I see a little silhouetto of a man
    Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango*
    Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening to me
    Gallileo, Gallileo,
    Gallileo, Gallileo,
    Gallileo Figaro - magnifico

    But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
    He's just a poor boy from a poor family
    Spare him his life from this monstrosity
    Easy come easy go will you let me go
    Bismillah! No we will not let you go - let him go
    Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
    Bismillah! We will not let you go let me go
    Will not let you go let me go (never)
    Never let you go let me go
    Never let me go ooo
    No, no, no, no, no, no, no
    Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
    Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
    For me
    For me

    So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye
    So you think you can love me and leave me to die
    Oh baby can't do this to me baby
    Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here

    Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
    Nothing really matters
    Anyone can see
    Nothing really matters nothing really matters to me

    Anyway the wind blows

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    *For some interesting interpretations of the lyrics see: <http://genius.com/459845>
    While genius contributors have their own interpretation, I see this line as the judge/prosecutor/executioner's gibe at the boy, calling him a clown and referencing hanging (which is often referred to as a dance for one in mid air)

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    Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video) - YouTube
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ>