Bohemian Rhapsody is song popularized by the band Queen, this song was created by the late Freddie Mercury (lead vocalist of queen). The song is quite phenomenal, and there are others who crowned this song as best rock song of all time, beating the song Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.
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Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970. Their classic line-up was Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (lead guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), and John Deacon (bass guitar). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works by incorporating further styles, such as arena rock and pop rock, into their music. You can read directly on Wikipedia Queen.
Lyric of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen band :
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 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 him 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,
Anyway the wind blows…
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 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 him 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,
Anyway the wind blows…
Bohemian Rhapsody is a good song that I think is very melodious, from the beginning of this song very slowly and seemed to indicate that this is a pop song, and then in the middle of this song initially accelerated with the orchestra and choir, and you know there are some words and phrases included by Freddie's into this one song, words in Arabic, Italian, and a few other words which some parties are the words devil worship.
Ok i have meaning of this song's, its from mercury and queen :
In the beginning of the video clip, Queen appears in the same prayer pose as on Queen II cover. Then the text begins.
Is this the real life - or is it just fantasy
Caught in a landslide - no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the sky and see...
”Is this the real life or is it just fantasy” – is a question concerning the ideologies of Christianity (the monotheistic “Western” religion), from one side, and of Buddhism, Hinduism and Daoism (the pantheistic, “Eastern” religions), from another. In the “Eastern” religion, the world is just a fantasy, an illusion, somebody’s dream - and nobody is responsible for their actions: it’s all a fantasy! What’s the matter, if nothing really matters?
The roots of escapism are in this ideology - escape from the reality, enter the illusory world.“No escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to the sky and see” – that’s how Queen and Freddie answer this question. Life is real, and no matter what illusions do you invent for yourself, you can’t escape from it. Everything that’s happening isn’t a fantasy – it’s real, whether do you like it or not. Freddie tells us to “open our eyes” – to admit the reality of this world. Looking at the world with open eyes is one of the most significant differences between Christian and Buddhist/Hindus philosophies – the latter tells to close yourself from the world and get into nirvana. While in Christian art, the saints are pictured with wide open eyes, in Buddhist art the saint’s eyes are always closed, and their faces look estranged.
To awaken yourself to the fact that life is real, you have to “look up to the skies” – in other words, believe in God. That’s why there is said, “and see” – because faith has an answer for every question.
Then, the character of the song appears. We don’t know who he is, where he is from, his name:
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...This guy is a typical modern escapist, the embodied indifference and non-responsibility. He doesn’t care what’s going on around. He’s like a piece of sand in the world.
Then, we learn that he killed a man:
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 everybody – I’ve got to go,
Gonna leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh (anyway the wind blows)
I don’t wanna die, I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all...The boy just killed a man – just for something to do or under a dose. He wasn’t fully aware that if you’d shot a man, he dies from it, for him, it was just a fun. He even doesn’t understand himself how it happened – he pulled the trigger, as he’s seen in movies many times, and the man is dead, really dead. The veil fell from his eyes, and now he’s facing his crime in the real world. The boy is horrified by what’s happened, all is gone for him. Now he’s going to commit suicide – that’s why he says goodbye to everybody. He’s very scared; he doesn’t want to die and in the same time he regrets that he was born. He’s got shivers down his spine, and body is aching (it’s a very accurate description of fear of death), but he’s not able to stay alive after all that’s happened and hold response for his action. Having already committed one crime, now he’s going to commit one more senseless sin – suicide.
And then, the most complicated and strange culmination part follows, featuring a choir of many voices:
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, 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, 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!
We’ll not let you go, never, never, never – 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...This so-called “nonsense” is a great battle for the soul of this poor guy, in which the heavenly hosts and the Hell’s demons participate. That’s why one choir demands to let him go, while other choir says – we will not let him go. He isn’t let go by the ones who made the boy escape from the reality, kill a man, and now they’re making him to commit suicide to get his soul forever. It’s demons, one of which has been sent by Beelzebub to overwhelm the soul of a poor boy. The boy is in a terrible trap – he wants to get out of this nightmare, but he can’t. And, like a last hope, the choir calls: “Galileo figaro magnifico”. It’s the key phrase, which reveals the entire meaning of the song, and usually it isn’t translated by the researchers. And, if they DO translate it, they translate it from Italian, getting “Galileo is a great barber”.
What Galileo? What has barber to do with that?
Yes, it’s a nonsense. But don’t make Freddie an idiot. Actually, it’s a slightly corrupted Latin phrase, “Galileo figuro Magnifico” – translated as “Magnify the Galilean's image”. “Galileo”, repeated five times, translated from Latin as “Jesus Christ” – that was His name in the ancient Rome. In other words, the only way to get out of the demonic nightmare is to magnify Jesus Christ and ask Him for help. But the boy can’t believe that God is concerned about him, and refuses the salvation (“nobody loves me”). Along the Catholic and Muslim prayers, the heavenly hosts are trying to save the boy, but they lose - because he didn't want to help himself, and, as we know, nobody can be saved by force.
In his despair the guy appeal to God:
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
According to Eastern custom, the sinners were beaten with stones and the crowd spitted to their faces. Such custom is described also in the Bible. So, it is as if the guy says – and you dare condemn me – which has something in common with the well-known words of Christ: “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” The second line is a polemic with the Christian doctrine of the salvation of soul and, in the same time, a dispute with God: how dare you say that you love me, and then let me die, without helping me? Here we have an association with the last words of Christ: “Lord, why did You leave me?” He doesn’t understand that the help was already offered to him – but he refused it. And he accuses God of having left him, of not helping him, of having condemned him…
Completely hopeless of everything, the boy finally decides to commit suicide – “Just gotta get right outta here”. The sad music sounds, lamenting the boy’s destiny, and the words: “Nothing really matters to me... anyway the wind blows”.
And finally, the gong beat sounds, imitating the shot. Everything is ended. The boy shot himself. The mysterious Bohemian Rhapsody is just a story of a bohemian boy who was taken away with the Eastern occultism, which drove him firstly to killing, and then to suicide. Since from the “human values” point of view this song is a monstrous heresy, it had to be declared “nonsense”.
Mercury wasn’t angry at all the parodies of Rhapsody for nothing.
The case isn’t in his ambitions – as we know, he had a perfect sense of humour and liked to laugh at himself. He was irritated by the fact that the mass culture vulgarized his song and never understood anything. And he wasn’t into casting pearls before the swine…
Is this the real life - or is it just fantasy
Caught in a landslide - no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the sky and see...
”Is this the real life or is it just fantasy” – is a question concerning the ideologies of Christianity (the monotheistic “Western” religion), from one side, and of Buddhism, Hinduism and Daoism (the pantheistic, “Eastern” religions), from another. In the “Eastern” religion, the world is just a fantasy, an illusion, somebody’s dream - and nobody is responsible for their actions: it’s all a fantasy! What’s the matter, if nothing really matters?
The roots of escapism are in this ideology - escape from the reality, enter the illusory world.“No escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to the sky and see” – that’s how Queen and Freddie answer this question. Life is real, and no matter what illusions do you invent for yourself, you can’t escape from it. Everything that’s happening isn’t a fantasy – it’s real, whether do you like it or not. Freddie tells us to “open our eyes” – to admit the reality of this world. Looking at the world with open eyes is one of the most significant differences between Christian and Buddhist/Hindus philosophies – the latter tells to close yourself from the world and get into nirvana. While in Christian art, the saints are pictured with wide open eyes, in Buddhist art the saint’s eyes are always closed, and their faces look estranged.
To awaken yourself to the fact that life is real, you have to “look up to the skies” – in other words, believe in God. That’s why there is said, “and see” – because faith has an answer for every question.
Then, the character of the song appears. We don’t know who he is, where he is from, his name:
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...This guy is a typical modern escapist, the embodied indifference and non-responsibility. He doesn’t care what’s going on around. He’s like a piece of sand in the world.
Then, we learn that he killed a man:
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 everybody – I’ve got to go,
Gonna leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooh (anyway the wind blows)
I don’t wanna die, I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all...The boy just killed a man – just for something to do or under a dose. He wasn’t fully aware that if you’d shot a man, he dies from it, for him, it was just a fun. He even doesn’t understand himself how it happened – he pulled the trigger, as he’s seen in movies many times, and the man is dead, really dead. The veil fell from his eyes, and now he’s facing his crime in the real world. The boy is horrified by what’s happened, all is gone for him. Now he’s going to commit suicide – that’s why he says goodbye to everybody. He’s very scared; he doesn’t want to die and in the same time he regrets that he was born. He’s got shivers down his spine, and body is aching (it’s a very accurate description of fear of death), but he’s not able to stay alive after all that’s happened and hold response for his action. Having already committed one crime, now he’s going to commit one more senseless sin – suicide.
And then, the most complicated and strange culmination part follows, featuring a choir of many voices:
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, 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, 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!
We’ll not let you go, never, never, never – 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...This so-called “nonsense” is a great battle for the soul of this poor guy, in which the heavenly hosts and the Hell’s demons participate. That’s why one choir demands to let him go, while other choir says – we will not let him go. He isn’t let go by the ones who made the boy escape from the reality, kill a man, and now they’re making him to commit suicide to get his soul forever. It’s demons, one of which has been sent by Beelzebub to overwhelm the soul of a poor boy. The boy is in a terrible trap – he wants to get out of this nightmare, but he can’t. And, like a last hope, the choir calls: “Galileo figaro magnifico”. It’s the key phrase, which reveals the entire meaning of the song, and usually it isn’t translated by the researchers. And, if they DO translate it, they translate it from Italian, getting “Galileo is a great barber”.
What Galileo? What has barber to do with that?
Yes, it’s a nonsense. But don’t make Freddie an idiot. Actually, it’s a slightly corrupted Latin phrase, “Galileo figuro Magnifico” – translated as “Magnify the Galilean's image”. “Galileo”, repeated five times, translated from Latin as “Jesus Christ” – that was His name in the ancient Rome. In other words, the only way to get out of the demonic nightmare is to magnify Jesus Christ and ask Him for help. But the boy can’t believe that God is concerned about him, and refuses the salvation (“nobody loves me”). Along the Catholic and Muslim prayers, the heavenly hosts are trying to save the boy, but they lose - because he didn't want to help himself, and, as we know, nobody can be saved by force.
In his despair the guy appeal to God:
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
According to Eastern custom, the sinners were beaten with stones and the crowd spitted to their faces. Such custom is described also in the Bible. So, it is as if the guy says – and you dare condemn me – which has something in common with the well-known words of Christ: “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” The second line is a polemic with the Christian doctrine of the salvation of soul and, in the same time, a dispute with God: how dare you say that you love me, and then let me die, without helping me? Here we have an association with the last words of Christ: “Lord, why did You leave me?” He doesn’t understand that the help was already offered to him – but he refused it. And he accuses God of having left him, of not helping him, of having condemned him…
Completely hopeless of everything, the boy finally decides to commit suicide – “Just gotta get right outta here”. The sad music sounds, lamenting the boy’s destiny, and the words: “Nothing really matters to me... anyway the wind blows”.
And finally, the gong beat sounds, imitating the shot. Everything is ended. The boy shot himself. The mysterious Bohemian Rhapsody is just a story of a bohemian boy who was taken away with the Eastern occultism, which drove him firstly to killing, and then to suicide. Since from the “human values” point of view this song is a monstrous heresy, it had to be declared “nonsense”.
Mercury wasn’t angry at all the parodies of Rhapsody for nothing.
The case isn’t in his ambitions – as we know, he had a perfect sense of humour and liked to laugh at himself. He was irritated by the fact that the mass culture vulgarized his song and never understood anything. And he wasn’t into casting pearls before the swine…
Finally with the facts given above allegations against this song, I do not care about the number of people who see the Queen on what is done by Freddie, I admit that Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the songs is very great, I agree if this song is a rock song best of all time.
