I think it's obviously about something, what I don't know. I never knew what Lily of the Valley was about until last year and would never have guessed the subject matter unless Brian revealed it. Upon listening it's medieveal mumbo jumbo about kings and horse and the mythical Seven Seas of Rhye.
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Perhaps Freddie had his first homosexual encounter in boarding school.
"just killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger now he's dead": participated in the unthinkable sexual act, killing the heterosexual he was expected to be. Gun, head, trigger.....all symbols of the bad deed.
"life had just begun": means he was very young dealing with this perplexing experience.
"if I'm not back again this time tomorrow": confused about the fact that he enjoyed gay sex and had doubts he could abstain from it in the future.
"gotta leave you all behind and face the truth": Freddie feared how his family, friends, and fans would react if they found out.
"a little silhoueto of a man, will you do the fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning": an adult with whom he had his first gay relation, frightening and confusing. "Galileo" : under the night sky.
You can fill in the blanks with the rest. Mostly Freddie was coming to terms with the fact that he had chosen to live as a gay man and he wasn't going to let anyone worry about him, judge him, nor try to change him.
"just killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled the trigger now he's dead": participated in the unthinkable sexual act, killing the heterosexual he was expected to be. Gun, head, trigger.....all symbols of the bad deed.
"life had just begun": means he was very young dealing with this perplexing experience.
"if I'm not back again this time tomorrow": confused about the fact that he enjoyed gay sex and had doubts he could abstain from it in the future.
"gotta leave you all behind and face the truth": Freddie feared how his family, friends, and fans would react if they found out.
"a little silhoueto of a man, will you do the fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning": an adult with whom he had his first gay relation, frightening and confusing. "Galileo" : under the night sky.
You can fill in the blanks with the rest. Mostly Freddie was coming to terms with the fact that he had chosen to live as a gay man and he wasn't going to let anyone worry about him, judge him, nor try to change him.
Freddie once told Kenny Everrett what the song was about and Kenny later let on that Freddie told him it was just a bunch of random gobbledegook put together.
I think this sounds the monst plausable explanation, looking at most of Freddies work he didnt exactly add much depth to his songs, and i always laught at people trying to analyse and debate each line of Bohemian Rhapsody.
I think this sounds the monst plausable explanation, looking at most of Freddies work he didnt exactly add much depth to his songs, and i always laught at people trying to analyse and debate each line of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Paulos wrote:
Freddie once told Kenny Everrett what the song was about and Kenny later let on that Freddie told him it was just a bunch of random gobbledegook put together.
I think this sounds the monst plausable explanation, looking at most of Freddies work he didnt exactly add much depth to his songs, and i always laught at people trying to analyse and debate each line of Bohemian Rhapsody.
You "laught" at them? What does that involve?
Anyway, clearly the message of BoRap is "Be Yourself"...
Brian normally says he doesnt know what its about, and would never ask, etc, etc, but once he mentioned very briefly something about knowing at least something of what its about, but never said what it was. I think the meaning is possibly found more in the emotion of the song, rather then in analysing the lyrics alone. Maybe it started out with a meaning and as the song progressed the meaning became more obscured. If you look at Its a Hard Life the music sounds so happy, the video is obscure and dificult to interpret at times, but if you take the whole together it has a deeper emotional meaning. The ornamentation on it lessened the serious heavy and sometimes sad lyrics, and made it an emotional song without being explicitly miserable. Freddie was a private person, he probably wouldn't have wanted everyone knowing his deepest feelings and thoughts, esp if they were difficult. One Vision is another example of a song that had a meaning originally, but got changed almost beyond recognition. Breakthrough also has a serious meaning hidden in a love story.
I've wondered if the person killed in BoRhap could possibly be Mary Austin, or a symbol of everyone he feared upsetting, hurting or losing either by coming out or by following his rock dream which would distance him from general society to a point. The fear that people wouldn't understand, the anger about rejection and anger at himself for letting some family and friends down. But i think it refers to more then simply being gay, it must have been several etremely difficult and painful things in his life that were closing in on him.
Just my opinion, anyway.
I've wondered if the person killed in BoRhap could possibly be Mary Austin, or a symbol of everyone he feared upsetting, hurting or losing either by coming out or by following his rock dream which would distance him from general society to a point. The fear that people wouldn't understand, the anger about rejection and anger at himself for letting some family and friends down. But i think it refers to more then simply being gay, it must have been several etremely difficult and painful things in his life that were closing in on him.
Just my opinion, anyway.