Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody Meaning
Song Released: 1975
Covered By: Panic! At The Disco (2016), Pentatonix (2017)
Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics
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...
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Okay, I've seen a lot of interpretations I believe (minus the AIDS thing because Mercury didn't have AIDS at the time and the outbreak wasn't massively in the public eye) but I believe it's not just the man who murders, not only the coming out of the closet or fighting with God and the devil but just being torn between everything in life. Mercury felt like a man being sentenced to death if he had to come out as a gay man to Mary Austin and is fighting between not coming out and living life a lie or coming out and disappointing Mary and leaving whom he is close to. When they say, "No, we will not let you go/let me go!" the judges and witnesses of the "trial" are telling Freddie (the boy/man in the story) that they won't let him come out and that they are going to kill him-or shame him in the public eye for being gay and destroy his career- and he's screaming let me go but he can't because he has to face his "sentence" of shame, disgust, and death for his "crime"-his career's destruction.
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Could be about someone who committed murder, and feels enough guilt that he/she wants to die. I've got a morbid brain :P.
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What I think is that Freddie came out from the closet in this song.
He starts of question: "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?", he doesn't know if the life he lives is true or not but he knows that there is no escape from reality and so he tells himself to open his eyes look up at the sky and see the true world with no fantasy, the world where he is not and in the fake world he's just a poor boy and now nothing really matter for him, he knows what he is and wants to be proud of it, so he tells his Mama that he had killed a man, but what I think is that he did not physically kill a man, what I think is that he killed himself but not physically, killed the man the straight man who he hated because that man was not him, basically he claims to his mother that he is gay and with his description he tells that he put a gun against his head, pulled his trigger now he is dead, he tells her that he knew something was wrong with his head as someone shot it. Then he tells her that life had just begun and now he is gone and threw it all away, he tells her that his life has just begun as he was born but now he took all the life of lies he he knew he was supposed to live and threw it all away. Then we understand that his Mama cried because of that and he tells her that if he doesn't come back this time tomorrow she should carry on if nothing really matters, he tells her that if the person she thought was her son won't come back to what she thought he truly was then she should carry on with her life if nothing really matters with the reality.
"It's too late my time has come, sand shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time" He tells that it's too late to go back, he already had told his mother about his sexuality and he feels pain because of all that and he says to the old life, his friend goodbye and that he must go to his life that he knew he should had lived as gay because then he'll face the truth, his true life, not wearing any customs of a straight man he'll live as he is and he finds leaving the old world which guided him from the truth was like dying and he tells his mother that he is afraid of that and that he wished he was never born at all so he won't have all of this.
Then he tries to go to the real world and face the truth that he is gay and go out of the closet but he starts to lose it and say weird things in many languages, talks to himself and argue with himself if to let himself go to the new life or not and at the end he does by the song and he sees that nothing really matters now, he came out by the song and fortunately no one really cares if he's gay and so now it doesn't really matter to everyone and to him. -
I think it is safe to say that Bohemian Rhapsody is about Freddie Mercury's coming out on being a homosexual. Even though the lyrics may sound that he is speaking about dying (having contracted AIDS) let's not forget that Mercury had not been diagnosed with AIDS until April 1987, twelve years after he even wrote the song. Any way we want to interpret the lyrics, it will go down in history as one of the most iconic songs that will be loved by generations to come.
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For Freddie Mercury, this is about killing part of himself. The part that was "masculine" from his birth. He decides to assume he was gay, but not for everyone, it was the '70es; he assumed for himself, in fact, and for Mary Austin and some closer friends. The one who was killed was the "masculine Freddie". The rest is lyrics, to fit in the music's metric and in the rhymes. And a lot of nonsense, it was a trademark in Freddie's lyrics. That's all.
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I think its about a young guy that sleeps around a lot and finds out that he has aids. im guessing he had a not so good childhood and was raised by a single mother. so hes telling his mother goodbye because he probably took some pills (or something of the sort) or is about to, and its too late for her to try and save him or change his mind. he then starts to feel the effects and becomes scared of death. he blacks out and starts hallucinating. while someone(s) trying to revive him, he then has the decision of whether he wants to stay alive or die. he decides to die but is revived. he becomes angry that they brought him back just so he can wait to die again and ends up trying to kill himself again and succeeds. that's how I visualized it when I read the lyrics.
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Vanity of vanity all is vanity
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Personally i think this song is about Freddie Mercurys struggles with being gay and how someone in a similiar situation may contemplate suicide.
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