Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics
🎤 Lyrics: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
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 me go
Will not let you go – let me go (never)
Never let you go – let me go
Never let me go – ooo
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
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters – nothing really matters to me
Anyway the wind blows…
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest songs of all time, “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the first single released from Queen’s fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera. It became an international hit, reaching #1 in seven countries and peaking at #9 in the United States. Seventeen years after its initial release, “Bohemian Rhapsody” re-entered the pop charts in the United States, peaking at #2 after appearing in the hit 1992 film Wayne’s World. In 2002, the song was listed at #1 in a Guinness World Records poll as Britain’s favorite single of all time, ranking higher than four Beatles songs and John Lennon’s “Imagine”.
The word “bohemian” seems to refer to a group of 19th-century artists and musicians, known for defying convention and living disregarding norms; unlike the Bohemian region in the Czech Republic. Meanwhile, the term “rhapsody” (derived from the Greek: ῥαψῳδός or rapsōidos for a reciter of epic poetry, or a rhapsodist) is a piece of classical music with distinct sections that are played as a single movement. Rhapsodies often feature dense themes or narratives.
Complex and operatic both musically and lyrically, “Bohemian Rhapsody” (like Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” and The Eagles’ “Hotel California”) has attracted endless fan theories and commentary. Surviving members of the band have claimed that the narrative is based on the legend of Faust;
critics have found possible sources in the opera and in Freddie Mercury’s personal biography; But like any good work of art, it is open to interpretation.
As of December 2018, “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the most streamed song of the 20th century.