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The title refers to &#;Bohemian&#;, (Bohemia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) which denotes an unconventional person involved in the arts, and &#;Rhapsody&#;, a fantasy which follows a certain operatic logic, and may be considered as a distortion of Franz Liszt&#;s “Hungarian Rhapsody”.

Its lyrics progress through the central character&#;s understanding of his condition.

Intro

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,
Any way the wind blows doesn&#;t really matter to me, to me.

The intro section to “Bohemian Rhapsody” gives information about central character of the song. He is bewildered and cannot separate reality from fantasy. Truth seems too hard to accept, but he can’t forget it: there can be &#;no escape from reality&#;.
The narrator introduces himself as &#;just a poor boy&#; but states that he &#;needs no sympathy&#; and asserts his cool indifference and lack of concern.

Ballad

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, ooh,
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, ooh (any way the wind blows),
I don&#;t wanna die,
I sometimes wish I&#;d never been born at all.

Then he confesses to his mother that he has &#;just killed a man,&#; with &#;a gun against his head&#; and, realizing this, he thinks his life has come to an end.
He also says that he didn’t want to make her cry, but he isn’t going to return home after this crime.

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Freddie received a thorough and rigorous education from his boarding school in India. In the evenings he and a group of boys would even gather to learn more about the arts from one of the teachers. They listened to opera and plays and read and discussed literature. So I don’t believe that the song was just a bunch of rhyming nonsense as he once told an interviewer who pressed him about its meaning. Freddie came from a very strict religious family whose religion considered being a gay male equally as sinful as devil worship. It actually says this in the Zoroastrian scripture. He constantly worried about upsetting his family. Even when he was very ill his mother said he would always brush his illness aside and worry about them asking if the press was upsetting them.

Many who were close to Freddie believe what the lyrics seems to suggest—that the man who was murdered in the song was the straight man that Freddie was pretending to be up to that point in his life. He came out to his girlfriend of six years who he loved dearly not long after the release of this song thereby ending their relationship and began living as a gay man. Some even believe that the “mama” in the lyrics represents Mary who provided him with unconditional love and remained his closest friend for life. Or maybe it represents both the literal and figurative since his Mom must have been disappointed in his decision to begin living as a gay man rather than settling down with Mary although she continued to love and support him. Sadly, years after his death when asked about his homosexuality she teared up and her son-in-law interrupted the interviewer telling him not to go there. So it is clear what Freddie was up against.

For those who are not aware, Freddie liked to incorporate his love of the arts into his music and videos. For example, “The Fairy Feller&#;s Master-Stroke” is a song he wrote entirely about a painting of the same name and the opening lyric from “

single by Queen

For other uses, see Bohemian Rhapsody (disambiguation).

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, A Night at the Opera (). Written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, the song is a six-minute suite, notable for its lack of a refraining chorus and consisting of several sections: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. It is one of the few progressive rock songs of the s to have proved accessible to a mainstream audience.

Mercury referred to "Bohemian Rhapsody" as a "mock opera" that resulted from the combination of three songs he had written. It was recorded by Queen and co-producer Roy Thomas Baker at five studios between August and September Due to recording logistics of the era, the band had to bounce the tracks across eight generations of track tape, meaning that they required nearly tracks for overdubs. The song parodies elements of opera with bombastic choruses, sarcastic recitative, and distorted Italian operatic phrases. Lyrical references include Scaramouche, the fandango, Galileo Galilei, Figaro, and Beelzebub, with cries of "Bismillah!"

Although critical reaction was initially mixed, retrospective reviews have acclaimed "Bohemian Rhapsody" one of the greatest songs of all time, and it is often regarded as the band's signature song. The promotional video is credited with furthering the development of the music video medium. It has appeared in numerous polls of the greatest songs in popular music, including a ranking at number 17 on Rolling Stone's list of the “ Greatest Songs of All Time”. A Rolling Stone readers' poll ranked Mercury's vocal performance as the greatest in rock history.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks (plus another five week