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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Sent 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

  • (anyway the wind blows)

  • I don't wanna die

  • I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

  • I see a little silhouetto of a man

  • Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?

  • Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me

  • (Galileo) Galileo

  • (Galileo) Galileo

  • Galileo Figaro

  • Magnifico

  • I'm just a poor boy, 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!)

  • Never let you go (Let me go!)

  • Never, never, never, never let me go

  • 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 stone 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

  • Nothing really matters

  • Anyone can see

  • Nothing really matters

  • Nothing really matters to me

  • Anyway the wind blows

  • Hi rock fans, how are you?

  • I'm Paul Emerencio, creator of "Rock com Legendas"

  • And I usually give my opinion about the lyrics in the end of the videos

  • So, here we go:

  • I think this song is about the turbulent youth that Freddie Mercury had

  • As everyone knows, he wrote the lyrics

  • And he chose not to clarify the meaning

  • He said for each draw their own conclusions

  • But Brian May has said in an interview

  • That Freddie Mercury put a lot of himself into that song

  • According to the biography of Freddie

  • He moved frequently during childhood and adolescence

  • Not only houses, but also countries

  • This explains the "easy come, easy go", in my opinion

  • Freddie was always a bit effeminate

  • And you know that children in school don't forgive

  • At 8 years old, he was sent alone in a ship to study in India

  • Now imagine how it should be you arrive in a new country

  • In a new school

  • Being bullied every day, and without your family around

  • Later, in adolescence

  • He and his family have fled from a civil war in Zanzibar

  • And they settled in London

  • In short

  • The youth of Freddie Mercury was insane

  • And it's possible, or probable

  • That at some point he thought about giving up everything

  • Give up on life

  • Some words in the lyrics appear in the Qu'ran

  • As "Bismillah", which means "In the name of Allah"

  • These words are from Freddie's parents religion

  • And when he says in the lyrics:

  • will you let me go?”

  • And the answer is: “Bismillah! No, we will not let you go

  • For me this part shows the support that Freddie received from his family

  • If in fact he went through a period of instability

  • Many people think this song is about homosexuality

  • Or bisexuality of Freddie Mercury

  • I think it could be truth

  • But unlike most

  • I don't believe this to be the central theme of song

  • For me, the point is all difficulties he faced in childhood

  • And that includes, of course

  • The prejudice due to his sexual orientation.

Is this the real life?

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