Hello..
Today's song is Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
An epic, from beginning to the end, among the best, alongside Led Zeppelin's immortal "Stairway to Heaven".
Bohemian Rapsody is like four or five songs in one, truely brilliant. And Freddies singing skills?! Man, I think I speak for everyone when I say that he's *one of* the greatest singer ever lived!As for the lyrics. When asked in an interview, Freddie Mercury said that he didn't like people asking him all the time what tis song meant and that people should just enjoy it.
C'mon, after all, all you have to say is that "the song is great". You don't have to make such a big of a deal as to what the song is about. Free will says that you can have your own opinion. So, what does this song mean to you? To me this song is about rainbows and sunshine.
Btw, listen to Weird Al Yankovick's satire to this song: Bohemian Rap City. It's very cool.
Lyrics:
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
Little high, little low
Any way 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
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
Got to leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche*1
Will you do the Fandango*2?
Thunderbolt and lightning
Very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo
(Galileo) Galileo
Galileo, figaro
Magnifico
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!*3
No, we will not let you go
(Let him go!)
Bismillah!
We will not let you go
(Let hime go!)
Bismillah!
We will not let you go
(Let me go!)
Will not let you go
(Let me go!)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia
Mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub*4 has a devil put aside for me
For me
For me
So you think you can stone 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 got to get out
Just got to get right out of here
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
Any way the wind blows
*1 According to the dictionary means "a stock character who appears as a boastful coward"
*2 Is a Spanish dance
*3 Is the opening word in the Qu'ran (Koran) and literally means "In the name of Allah"
*4 Is one of the many names given to the Devil
xoxo, Lucy and Dr. Robert