Recording Artist: "Queen"
Album: "A Night At The Opera" - 1975
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Lyrics: Scroll down to read |
Our explanation: This is rather self-explanatory- the singer has murdered someone, and is on death row, awaiting execution. In the operatic portion of the song towards the end, he appeals. It is rejected, and he fades away... Here are some meanings of some of those names:
1 Scaramouche - originally 'Scarramuccia', one of the stock figures in Italian Commedia del'Arte theatre; a swashbuckling beau dressed in black who was never quite as brave as he pretended
2 Figaro - a Spanish first name, best known from the witty and rebellious barber in Beaumarchais' novels Le Barbier de Séville and Le Mariage de Figaro, both later made into operas
3 silhouetto - Italian for silhouette, an outline seen against a lighter background, named, for unknown reasons, after Etienne de Silhouette, 18th century French finance minister. The cutting of silhouette shapes and profiles became a fad.
4 Bismillah - an Arabic interjection meaning 'in the name of God'
5 Beelzebub - chief spirit of evil, the name means 'lord of the flies' and was first used for a Philistine god. Milton uses the name for Satan's right-hand fallen angel in Paradise Lost. The name is sometimes used as a synonym for 'Satan'.
6 magnifico - Italian word for magnificent or, by extension, a Venetian nobleman or any high ranking person
7 fandango - a Spanish courtship dance in triple time, performed by a couple, often employing castanets
8 Galileo - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and philosopher (1564 - 1642)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" 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,
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- (any way 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,
Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the Fandango-
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me-
Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo Galileo
Galileo 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
Will not let you go let me go
No, no, no, no, no, no, no-
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....
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