In leipzig concert Brian explained what '39 is about:
"i think possibly the first general relativity song..ahem...ahaha...cos it's about a man who goes away..." ecc ecc "...and he comes back after what seems like 1 year to him, but to his friends and family he has been away for one hundred years....so this song is called '39. SO IF YOU KNOW PLEASE SING ALONG OKAY?" ....guitar starts. ;)
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The song is for sure about the theory of relativity. Also, '39 is the song number 39 that Queen recorded.
'39 is a pretty sad song to me...
I wouldn't have enough guts to be a volonteer...
I wouldn't have enough guts to be a volonteer...
For those of you who are interested in similar stories, Robert A. Heinlein, a famous science fiction writer, wrote a story very much like this, called "A Time for the Stars" if I recall the title right, I believe around '59. In it, this space travel corporation is looking for twins to volunteer for an experiment to see if any can mindspeak, the whole point being that as they travel further away, radio lag makes it nearly impossible to commmunicate with earth. The brother on the rocket ages "relatively" slower than his brother back on earth because he is traveling faster than light, etc. He marries his grand neice. Very well written.
For an alternate story, there is an Anime show called "Gunbuster" in which the same thing happens to a young girl in a Mechsuit, who comes back to earth long after everyone she knew is dead.
I bet my family something like 10 years ago that the song was about time traveling effects of time dilation, (before I read anything Bri said).
When my Girlfriend and I were at Wembley, right before he went into '39, Bri said something like, "Here's my little song about Einsteinian Time Dilation" or something, very similar to his commment in Antwerp or wherever he said the other one. One of my top 10 fav. songs.
For an alternate story, there is an Anime show called "Gunbuster" in which the same thing happens to a young girl in a Mechsuit, who comes back to earth long after everyone she knew is dead.
I bet my family something like 10 years ago that the song was about time traveling effects of time dilation, (before I read anything Bri said).
When my Girlfriend and I were at Wembley, right before he went into '39, Bri said something like, "Here's my little song about Einsteinian Time Dilation" or something, very similar to his commment in Antwerp or wherever he said the other one. One of my top 10 fav. songs.