You Tube Lyrics of 23 Nov 2015: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

If there is a more complexly orchestrated rock anthem than this one I've never heard it. Quadrophenia comes close, but no single cut from the Opera matches Mercury's opus. Freddie was an opera buff himself and it is no coincident the song first appeared on Queen's album A Night at the Opera. The link to the official video follows the lyrics.

Bohemian Rhapsody
performed by Queen
written by Freddie Mercury

Is this the real life?
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
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango*
Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening to me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo Figaro - magnifico

But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go will you let me go
Bismillah! No we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go let me go
Will not let you go let me go (never)
Never let you go let me go
Never let me go ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
For me
For me

So you think you can stop me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters nothing really matters to me

Anyway the wind blows

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*For some interesting interpretations of the lyrics see: <http://genius.com/459845>
While genius contributors have their own interpretation, I see this line as the judge/prosecutor/executioner's gibe at the boy, calling him a clown and referencing hanging (which is often referred to as a dance for one in mid air)

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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video) - YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ>