Queen

[Shanra the Dragon Bard]

Bohemian Rhapsody would have to be my all-time favorite.

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, ooh.
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, ev'rybody, I've got to go.
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
Mama, ooh.
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, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning 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! 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.) Will not let you go.
(Let me go.) Ah
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 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 gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see.
Nothing really matters.
Nothing really matters to me.

Any way the wind blows.

I couldn't resist posting the lyrics. When I was a teenager, we had an amusement park near our home and I eventually got a job working there. They had one rollercoaster called "THE HURLER" and as you were standing in line, getting closer to the front of line, there were TV screens overhead playing a clip of Dana Carvey and Mike Meyers from Wayne's World, talking about the impending ride. At one point in the clip, it showed the clip of them in the car, Bohemian Rhapsody playing in the background and then head banging during the instrumental section of the song. It was my favorite part of not only Wayne's World, but also of the always long line for that coaster. When my daughter was old enough, she saw Wayne's World and for a few precious years, before she outgrew it, anytime the song would come on the radio in the car, together, we would beging tossing our heads back and forth, making our long hair whip from back to front and back again. Those were fun times. Now if I try to do that, she just gives me that, "Come on Mom, act your age" look and rolls her eyes. Oh well, I can still do it when I'm alone.

Here is a great YouTube video, which showcases not only Dana, Mike and the boys in the car, but also incorporates Queen itself singing the song. Hope you enjoy it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nTheG--2NE0  

[Natsumae 17]

I like Crazy Little Thing Called Love, (my all time fav) Queen is a great band. Love Freddie. heart