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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
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
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
Sent 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
(anyway the wind blows)
I don't wanna 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
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!)
Never let you go (Let me go!)
Never, never, never, never let me go
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
Anyway the wind blows
Hi rock fans, how are you?
I'm Paul Emerencio, creator of "Rock com Legendas"
And I usually give my opinion about the lyrics in the end of the videos
So, here we go:
I think this song is about the turbulent youth that Freddie Mercury had
As everyone knows, he wrote the lyrics
And he chose not to clarify the meaning
He said for each draw their own conclusions
But Brian May has said in an interview
That Freddie Mercury put a lot of himself into that song
According to the biography of Freddie
He moved frequently during childhood and adolescence
Not only houses, but also countries
This explains the "easy come, easy go", in my opinion
Freddie was always a bit effeminate
And you know that children in school don't forgive
At 8 years old, he was sent alone in a ship to study in India
Now imagine how it should be you arrive in a new country
In a new school
Being bullied every day, and without your family around
Later, in adolescence
He and his family have fled from a civil war in Zanzibar
And they settled in London
In short
The youth of Freddie Mercury was insane
And it's possible, or probable
That at some point he thought about giving up everything
Give up on life
Some words in the lyrics appear in the Qu'ran
As "Bismillah", which means "In the name of Allah"
These words are from Freddie's parents religion
And when he says in the lyrics:
“will you let me go?”
And the answer is: “Bismillah! No, we will not let you go”
For me this part shows the support that Freddie received from his family
If in fact he went through a period of instability
Many people think this song is about homosexuality
Or bisexuality of Freddie Mercury
I think it could be truth
But unlike most
I don't believe this to be the central theme of song
For me, the point is all difficulties he faced in childhood
And that includes, of course
The prejudice due to his sexual orientation.