Not lazy lyrics - but a nice example of a transferred epithet: "Thunder bolts and lightning..." There is no such thing as a thunderbolt, a lightening bolt however is a natural electrical phenomenon!
You can get lightening, and bolts of lightening, and even lightening bolts. You can even get lightening without the thunder.
Likewise the thunder is the rain which sometimes accompanies the lightening.
You can even get thunder on it's own without the lightening.
But thunderbolts - no![/QUOTE]
What are you on about John? Of course there's such a thing as a thunderbolt; it's the bolt of light that accompanies thunder. Otherwise known as lightning.
And, you can't get thunder without lightning, nor lightning without thunder, unless I'm sadly mistaken. The two are inextricably linked, being the visual and audible parts of the same thing: electrostatic discharge. Thunder is the sound of the lightning. It's certainly not 'the rain that sometime accompanies' it.
Have you gone a wee bit mad?
John S Stuart · Member since
^^
No; both lightning and thunder can exist independently and without each other.
(Google it!).
Therefore - you cannot get a Thunderbolt!
Honest!
[b]Lightening without thunder
[/b]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_lightning
Heat lightning is the name used for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not have accompanying sounds of thunder. This happens because the lightning occurs very far away and the sound dissipates before it reaches the observer.[1] Heat lightning was named because it often occurs on hot summer nights and to distinguish it from lightning accompanied by audible thunder and cooling rainfall at the point of observation.[citation needed] Lightning results from the discharge of negative ions created from the friction of ice and water particles bumping into each other at the bottom of a cloud. Heat lightning can be an early warning sign that thunderstorms are approaching. In Florida, heat lightning is often seen out over the water at night, the remnants of storms that formed during the day along a sea breeze front coming in from the opposite coast.
[b]To witness Lightening without thunder[/b]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iKTMi-rYIc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iKTMi-rYIc[/url] (This is lightening without the rain)
[b]Thunder without lightning[/b]
[url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7375/full/480008a.html]http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7375/full/480008a.html[/url]
Long radiation bursts generated by thunderstorms don't always culminate in lightning, although the reasons why are not fully understood. Tatsuo Torii at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tokyo and his group tracked one such burst under a thunder cloud at the tip of Japan's Tsuruga Peninsula.
mooghead · Member since
'And if one time you told me that you loved me heaven knows, I would feel that I could ski right off the bridge of your pretty nose' <------ we have a winner!!!!!
Stelios · Member since
I think for a band that had at least three very articulate members( Fred, Bri,Roger) , the equation lyricwise dosen't exactly sum up.
I think they where going for
1) how words/phrases sounded when in the music context. Let's name it audiobility of lyrics
2) directness and clarity that would match up with the very extrovert/suggestive body language of Freddie's
3) A "middle of the road" originality that would consist of combining universal/cliched themes but with a twist in language n' style.
I am going slightly Mad, has some very imaginative lyrics.
My Life Has Been Saved, on the other hand is pretty damn lazy...
IanR · Member since
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a thunderbolt as: 'noun: a flash of lightning with a simultaneous crash of thunder'. So, if nothing else, Fred's lyrics are a tautology.
Mr.QueenFan · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Bohardy wrote:[/b]
what the fuck was Roger thinking of when he added "Don't drink and drive my car, don't get breathalised"?
Ugh.[/QUOTE]
Some people believe this to be a private joke to John Deacon who aparently had some problems with the breathalizer around that time. I don´t know if this is true.
Bohardy · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]John S Stuart wrote:[/b]
^^
No; both lightning and thunder can exist independently and without each other. (Google it!).
Therefore - you cannot get a Thunderbolt!
Honest!
[b]Lightening without thunder [/b]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_lightning
Heat lightning is the name used for the faint flashes of lightning on the horizon or other clouds from distant thunderstorms that do not have accompanying sounds of thunder. This happens because the lightning occurs very far away and the sound dissipates before it reaches the observer.[1] Heat lightning was named because it often occurs on hot summer nights and to distinguish it from lightning accompanied by audible thunder and cooling rainfall at the point of observation.[citation needed] Lightning results from the discharge of negative ions created from the friction of ice and water particles bumping into each other at the bottom of a cloud. Heat lightning can be an early warning sign that thunderstorms are approaching. In Florida, heat lightning is often seen out over the water at night, the remnants of storms that formed during the day along a sea breeze front coming in from the opposite coast.
[b]To witness Lightening without thunder[/b] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iKTMi-rYIc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iKTMi-rYIc[/url] (This is lightening without the rain)
[b]Thunder without lightning[/b] [url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7375/full/480008a.html]http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7375/full/480008a.html[/url]
Long radiation bursts generated by thunderstorms don't always culminate in lightning, although the reasons why are not fully understood. Tatsuo Torii at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Tokyo and his group tracked one such burst under a thunder cloud at the tip of Japan's Tsuruga Peninsula. [/QUOTE]
???
Neither of those links refute or even address the main point: thunder is the sound of lightning. And a thunderbolt is just another word for lightning.
The first example just describes a type of lightning where the observer cannot hear its sound (the thunder). Just because the[i] observer is too far away to hear the sound, it doesn't mean there is no sound[/i].
The second example relates to thunder/storm clouds that do not create lightning. Storm clouds are not the same thing as thunder, which is [i]the sound of lightning[/i]. So in this example there is not 'thunder without lightning', there are storm clouds without lightning.
As thunderbolt is so obviously a common synonym for lightning (check any dictionary) Fred's orignal lyric, as IanR rightly says, is a tautology.
Bohardy · Member since
[QUOTE]
[b]mooghead wrote: [/b] 'And if one time you told me that you loved me heaven knows, I would feel that I could ski right off the bridge of your pretty nose' <------ we have a winner!!!!![/QUOTE]
You may well be right!
FlorianS · Member since
Roger Taylor, Touch the Sky
The way you fix your hair
Even - when you boil your eggs
You got a certain something honey
Goes straight to my legs
-> THE WAY YOU BOIL YOUR EGGS???
Wiley · Member since
For some reason I'm a bit fond on the "ski right off the bridge of your pretty nose" bit in Final Destination. Lovely track. Oddly, I prefer The Cross' version to Roger's re-take with Yoshiki.
Also, I like "Still Burnin'", similar in music and (sparse) lyrical content to "Tear it up".
The ones that get on my nerves...
"Your smile speaks books to me" - Breakthru (Roger)
"You call me sweet like I'm some kind of cheese" - Sweet Lady (Brian)
"Don't drink and drive my car, don't get breathalised" - Don't lose your head (Roger)
"We were bad, we was pissed, just having a total eclipse" & "Wanted to arrest me, I said huh huh babe" - Khashoggi's Ship (Freddie)
ALL OF Don't Try Suicide (Freddie) - ironic because listening to this song make me want to kill myself (good one, Fred!)
tcc · Member since
The lyrics of One Vision were heavily borrowed from the demo track of A Kind Of Magic (called A Kind Of Vision).
Whenever I hear A Kind Of Vision in the bonus CD, my mind will promptly go blank when I think of One Vision. I have to listen to the One Vision track again to remember it.
brENsKi · Member since
that ^^^ kinda makes sense - aren't they both Roger's songs? and both conceived around the same time - one for a film the other ended up in a film
Stelios · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]
that ^^^ kinda makes sense - aren't they both Roger's songs? and both conceived around the same time - one for a film the other ended up in a film[/QUOTE]
From what i gathered they were not even two separate songs, initially. It was one concept that was formed into two differnet tracks due to "too many" creative ideas that worked better separately .
madprofessorus · Member since
I am not British so I don't get 100% the lyrics, but I do know some English and I can say that except some Rogers songs and quite few from queen, they never meant to write any deep sense lyrics, which is not bad of course,99% of rock bands write very lightly and some time foolish lyrics. Even pink Floyd before 1973 were totally psychedelic on their lyrics. But to stick with the subject,i can't live with you has some crap lyrics like rat race? No meaning at all
madprofessorus · Member since
I am not British so I don't get 100% the lyrics, but I do know some English and I can say that except some Rogers songs and quite few from queen, they never meant to write any deep sense lyrics, which is not bad of course,99% of rock bands write very lightly and some time foolish lyrics. Even pink Floyd before 1973 were totally psychedelic on their lyrics. But to stick with the subject,i can't live with you has some crap lyrics like rat race? No meaning at all
