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Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen

Album: A Night at the Opera (1975) Written by: Freddie Mercury

[Intro]
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landside,
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.


[Verse 1]
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.


[Opera Section]
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-o-o-o-o.

About this Song

A masterpiece of progressive rock, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is known for its unusual structure, lacking a chorus and consisting of several sections: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part, and a reflective coda.