Queen: Another One Bites The Dust Meaning

Song Released: 1980

Another One Bites The Dust Lyrics

Steve walks warily down the street,
With the brim pulled way down low
Ain’t no sound but the sound of his feet,
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready, are you ready for this
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat
Out of the doorway the...

1. anonymous

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   Oct 23rd 2014 !⃝

   When a homossexual became heterossexual.

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2. stevieb

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   Jul 16th 2014 !⃝

   Steve was a friend of mercury who was framed for murder of two NYCpolice officers in 1969 and won all charges dropped. If the song were released today the words another pigs bites the dust another pig is gone.

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3. anonymous

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   Sep 16th 2012 !⃝

   If you play the chorus " another one bites the dust " etc. And play it backwords, it clearly says " its fun to smoke marijuana "
4. melissa.brown.391420

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   Aug 13th 2012 !⃝

   The interpretation is so obvious it's easily missed. I think he was writing and singing about his personal war with AIDS. He knew he would be "biting the dust" very soon, and he knew there would be many more to follow.
   
   As someone who lived through the 80s, I can say Freddy Mercury was right on. I saw so many of my friends bite the dust from AIDS.
   
   I don't think he's singing about being "kicked out" of anywhere. He's singing about his ongoing battle with his own T-cells. His own immunity.
   
   Consider this:
   
   "How do you think I’m going to get along,
   Without you, when you’re gone
   You took me for everything that I had,
   And kicked me out on my own"
   
   I'd wager to say that's a rhyme about T-cells and immunity if ever there was one.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 9th 2012 !⃝

   It is about the Mob, simple as that. The 1930s all the way through the '70s the mob was openly active, and machine guns were their trade mark, specifically the Thompson "Tommy" Gun.

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6. anonymous

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   Apr 16th 2012 !⃝

   He wrote it about some of his friends that were dying from aids. It's when they didn't know what aids were.

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7. anonymous

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   Feb 17th 2012 !⃝

   Steve was betrayed by someone he trusted, someone whose help he needed. This was the last straw- possibly because of other trouble in the past- and now he's snapped, and getting revenge. The other people he kills might be innocent bystanders that got in the way, or others who hurt him so much that, in his head, they deserve to die. (A girlfriend being involved is NOT mentioned in the song, it's possible but not definite.)
8. anonymous

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   Dec 17th 2011 !⃝

   The first part steve got shot by a machinegun has nothing to do with the entire song. I'ts just about freddie watching some action movie and he's ready to see anything happens on the scene.

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9. anonymous

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   Jun 8th 2011 !⃝

   It is about homosexual (male on male) jealousy. Freddie Mercury was bisexual, and he knew the GBLT community all too well and how the jealousies could get really nasty there. Steve is not [necessarily] a soldier, but he has been cheated heavily and he is about to avenge to his ex.
   
   On marijuana: Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor were known as party animals, but Brian May and John Deacon never did any other stimulants than beer. No Queen songs are about drugs - Brian, who was the brain of the band, wouldn't have tolerated it.

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10. anonymous

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    Apr 17th 2011 !⃝

    I was told the song was about how the record company screws over bands and leaves them poor and nearly homeless. "Death On 2 Legs" is the same thing.
11. anonymous

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    Feb 25th 2011 !⃝

    It's about the when aids began to spread. It was taking people out like machine gun fire. Some of those spreading the disease had no regard for others.
12. anonymous

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    Aug 27th 2010 !⃝

    It's about attitude.

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13. Markus

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    Mar 9th 2010 !⃝

    Another one bites the dust means another one sexually used and dropped like a hot potato. In a direct perspective it is about war, in an indirect perspective it is about people who change partners regardless what they feel. I think it is like bohemian rhapsody, in the end it is an allegory for the end of relationships. I think that's the meaning of
    
    There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
    And bring him to the ground
    You can beat him
    You can cheat him
    You can treat him bad and leave him
    
    at the end of the song.
14. anonymous

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    Dec 3rd 2009 !⃝

    It has to do with the vietnam war; Steve was forced into service (the draft), and sent to vietnam. He fights all the while watching both his comrades and his enemies fall before him.
15. fastfordfocus

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    Mar 24th 2009 !⃝

    This song chronicles the great oral tradition of the Nuntuket foot soldiers, following the story of the great early period soldier, Phenti, as he battled his way through the treacherous hills of the west, without water, without breath, without time, never to lay by his sword, never to moan the ancient heart of agony, never to reckon the east more than the shell with which it loosely cradled life as the sun would set and the wind would clobber the body and pierce the spirit with the raw needles of many wise spirits of great indifference.

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