The meaning behind the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody.

It's just a narrative about a man who has killed someone. 
Why do people seem to think someone can not create something without it being related to their life.
The only section to me that is hard to interpret is the operatic part but I believe it is him either on trial for killing or himself trying to deal with the terrible crime he has just committed.
"I'm just a poor boy, from a poor family, he's just a poor boy...etc' has always conjured up images of the man in a court room with his defence council arguing against his incarceration.
'We will not let you go!' meaning he is going to prison.
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me' meaning he feels he will also be going to hell for his crimes.

Either way..I feel Freddie was just making up a story!

Roger stated it was fairly self explanatory with a little nonsense thrown in the middle, and Brian supports suggestions that the song contained veiled references to Mercury's personal traumas...

rhyeking wrote: True, Tim Rice wrote the lyrics, though Freddie and Mike Moran were creating a Wagnerian (or Rachmaninovian, if you will :-) composition before his involvement. The instrumental on the box set doesn't lose much power without the vocals. The album as a whole is easily the spiritual successor to Freddie's work in the first half of the '70s.

My favorite work of his since A Day At The Races......

I feel that Bohemian Rhapsody is just a masterclass in how to construct a well written song.It tells a great story.

However i feel that Freddie's greatest song may have come an album later in The Millionaire's Waltz.

Only my opinion.

Genius.

Can you explain why they headbang to the rock section in Waynes World?

How about why Brian wears clogs?  That's one that hasn't come up for a while.

What about why the water spins 'round the plughole as it goes down?  My little boy has been struggling with that one for ages.

You should be able to work those things out for yourself. Don't let your little boy fall down the plug hole now :-)

I think it means whatever you want it to mean. After all, that what most songs are like.

hey chek this out!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnTZmurpawQ

Well, Roger has claimed that it is about something Freddie was dealing with at the time, and that he knows what it is about, but will never tell.
And I can remember speculating with friends about what the song was about long ago, when it was playing on the radio, when Freddie was very much alive and kicking!  None of us really had an answer, though there were plenty of flawed theories floating around, none of which involved him being gay. We were, afterall, twelve.

... I agree it was something Freddie was dealing with at the time.

He was dealing with all these great tunes in his head that he wanted to get out and though...

Fk it... Ill put them all one song...

  End of story

......But for fans out there who like to break it down...   its each to there own, and I dont see why they should be shot down for wanting to come to a place like this and have a chat about it..

I reckon Freddie went to a futune teller who told him whats going to happen 
And with the lyrics Aids kill for one and he didnt wanna die from it!!! 
I know that may seem stupid and all but everyone can have their own say and thats mine

i_wuv_my_freddie_fruit wrote: I reckon Freddie went to a futune teller who told him whats going to happen 
And with the lyrics Aids kill for one and he didnt wanna die from it!!! 
I know that may seem stupid and all but everyone can have their own say and thats mine

.................a futune teller????

Oops it was meant to be Fortune :/ 
Typo BIG TIME.....

I agree, there is probably an element of the personal in Bo Rhap...but more than anything else I  feel Bo Rhap was less about the lyrics and more about an experiment to see how he could manage to get three diverse musical styles to flow seamlessly together. The words came a close second as such, and were developed along the  way. Not to say that his personal life had NO bearing at all  in it,  but I guess it wasn't as much that as a terrific idea he decided to develop.

I believe "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody To Love" and "We Are The Champions" are a trilogy about Freddie's battle with his sexuality. Bohemian Rhapsody is the starting point where admits to being being gay. Somebody To Love is about coming to terms with being gay and the problems that come with it at a time when homosexuality was frowned upon. We Are The Champions being the ultimate victory after homosexuality was widely accepted.