Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody Meaning

Song Released: 1975

Covered By: Panic! At The Disco (2016), Pentatonix (2017)

Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics

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
Any way...

1. CroftD1

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   Mar 14th 2006 !⃝

   It is an opra-hence the name Bohemian Rhapsody. Have you ever heard somebody taking rhyming jibberish and turning it in to some sort of meaning even though there is not a real 'behind the lyrics' meaning it still can have some sort of a story line. Freddy was refering to people trying to line a "He read an article in the news paper and wrote..." or "He must have known a guy who...". So don't be ignorant on what the guy's story line of the OPERA is although he may have gone a little too deep. I actually agree with the guy for the most part and yet I agree that it was just a bunch of neat rhyming lines. I've done the same in my lyrics. Read the F--- name of the song, the name tells you what the song is about. That is why artists Name songs unless you forgot!
2. anonymous

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   Feb 24th 2006 !⃝

   Okay, someone sayed mercury said it was all a bunch of rhyming crap (not in those words) and then when to analyse the song, if there was a meaning behind the song you think he would have said that?
   i don't seee how a legend such as this can be interpretated and given a meaning, you forget all the hidden words, in the queen musical Bo. Rap. doesn't even come up in it, because by a queen legend and someone else I have admittedly forgotten said there is so much in that song that does not link cannot be made into any kind of story, or be given a true meaning to build a story around no matter how fricking often english literature people and us shits try, why not listen to the legends themselves? I know mercury is no longer here in form, but he has himself said it means nothing, and you don't believe him? sorry but I find it just a tad ignorently stupid.
3. anonymous

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   Dec 28th 2005 !⃝

   He commited a murder and is confessing it to his mother through a letter (mamma, just killed a man) then it goes on to his sentence death (to late, my time has come) as he's getting set up he's goes through a stage of madness (all the stuff about fandango and thunder) and then a stage of paranoia(i'm just a poor boy nobody loves me) then he asks to be set free (...will you let me go) as it gets to the execution he gets a pardon (the rock part representing his happiness) and how he feels invincible (so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye) as it gets to the end he I attacked by someone and he is accepting his fate (nothing really matters to me)
4. anonymous

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   Nov 28th 2005 !⃝

   Personally, I think this song relates to a kid growing up in the ghetto, basically doing what he can to survive, and how he realizes what he's really done. But that's just my opinion

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
5. anonymous

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   Nov 7th 2005 !⃝

   I think that this song is all about a little boy who is confessing a murder. It could have been taken from a letter from a real-life occurence. The lines "Momma, just killed a man, put a gun up to his head, pulled my trigger now he's dead" just confirms that he is confessing it to his mother about the murder he has committed.
6. anonymous

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   Oct 28th 2005 !⃝

   This was written years before he found out he had AIDS.
7. anonymous

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   Oct 27th 2005 !⃝

   I think the first part introduces us to an evil man who has no conscience. The next is his confession to murdering a man. Then, reality hits him and he has to start dealing with the consequences of what he has done, realizing that death may be his punishment. I think the next part is about his trial: Is he truly evil and should be punished with death? Or did his sad upbringing contribute to his situation, and we should have mercy on him? He is then found evil and sentenced to death. Finally, the evil shows itself again and he's going to do whatever it takes to get out. And it starts all over again...
8. rockon

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   Sep 27th 2005 !⃝

   I know for a fact that this song is about murder (Freddy Mercury said it himself)
   
   The first style is the thrill of the actual murder (caught in a landslide though escape from reality)
   
   The second is his regret of murdering and his realization of putting his family and self to shame.
   
   The third his fear of getting caught by the police for the murder (this part is obvious)
   
   The fourth awesome guitar Rock part is about his ability to hit rock bottom and get right back up (so you think you can love me and leave me to die oohh baby, can't do this to me baby...)
   
   The final 2 lines are about what he is going to do next
   
   ROCK ON!
9. Modlovecat

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   Jul 14th 2005 !⃝

   Actually that other person is completely wrong.
   
   The song is actually a letter written by an inmate convicted of murder before he was put to death. It's a letter to his mother.
   
   I'm not sure how Freddy Mercury came across it, but the entire beginning slow part is just direct words from the letter.
10. who?pinkfloyd

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    Jul 9th 2005 !⃝

    This song definitely is about Freddie Mercury having AIDS because he said he just killed a man (passed on aids). Also, when he says he's gonna die because of it, it's because he has AIDS... He also says "body aching all the time" (side effect of aids?)
    
    Coincidence? I think not

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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