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Today's take is going to be a re write of my first take ever, I honesty think the topic was great but the writing wasn't good, due to me never reading and not writing out side my education requirements .
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I hope you enjoy this , and I hope it is not too long as it is some how entertaining to read this.
The link to my first take ever with all those typos , no pics or GIFS:
"Is this the real life?" "Is this just fantasy?"Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
"Is this the real life?" "Is this just fantasy?"Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
One of my favorite songs, it is a great song has a lot meanings and some interesting facts:
- A Guinness holding record for the best single of all time !!
-No one knows what is it about , aside from the writer (Freddie Mercury R.I.P) and band member-guitarist Brain May, i will try to see how much i could interpret of it !
So let us begin:
"Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?"
- Freddie over here is beginning to doubt everything , his existence and his beliefs
"Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality"
- Caught in this life (As if it is a trap) , and he faces the reality with hardship
"Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see"
- Now he is just freeing him self from all his beliefs and religious view
"I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy"
- He is now stating the he is lost (poor boy) , i need no guidance
"Because I'm easy come, easy go"
- This might have two meaning ( he is saying that humans are easily reproduced and easily die)
Or that he changes his views easily , because he is unstable
"A little high, little low"
- Again , he is talking about how his views might be affected by drugs or mood swings
"Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me"
- Now he has made up his mind, and left all beliefs and cares in life
"Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead"
- He is talking about how things changed after leaving his beliefs,now the man he is talking about might be :
- his old self , when he had beliefs
- Or he is saying that he really killed a man because he left his beliefs ,and there is no moral sense in his life
"Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away"
- He is saying that he is still young, and he just went and thrown all what he believed in
"Mama, ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry"
- He is apologizing to his mother , for she wanted him to have faith and beliefs as she raised him
"If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters"
- This might indicate for a timely thing ,more palpably prayer time
And he is telling his mother to carry on , as he did , without beliefs
"Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine"
- Now he is about to die , and he is doubting what he did of leaving all his beliefs , cuz he sense death and now he is sure that there is beliefs and religion !
"Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody I've got to go"
- He is in agony , all the time from being uncertain of beliefs and faith , so now he is leaving the world
"Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo (anyway the wind blows)"
- He came to realize there is nothing to be done , so he try to accept his death
"I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all"
- Now he is regretting what he have done , and wishes to have never been born
SOLO TIME
Now the song has built up , and this part is what makes it one of the best songs ever made (Thank you Freddie )
"I see a little silhouetto of a man"
- now this might means that he sees something out of this world (An angel or a demon)
in the next parts , comes the epic fight of his faith and beliefs
"Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango"
- Now the first view : is having no beliefs , and just living like a clown (Scaramouch) acting like there is nothing else other than dancing and entertainment in life
"Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo,"
- Now comes science , which is main rival for religion , he remembers Gallileo
"Gallileo Figaro - magnifico"
- Now came in with science and arts
"But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family"
- Now , he is saying that he can't chose science as belief , because no one can teach him and he cannot afford it
"Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go will you let me go"
- Now as angels are watching his suffer , they ask to spare his life from this uncertainty
And he is saying , i am ready to change my beliefs , just 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"
- Now comes in religion
Bismillah: is an Arabic word means by the name of Allah (God)
Now , as he sees religion and tries to use it as an escape , angels are replying that it won't work now and we can't let you 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"
-In Islam, you are now allowed to change religion (After you have testified and believed it 100%)
"Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go"
- my mother : mama mia, he is now turn to his mother to guide , which he can't find anymore
"Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
For me
For me"
-Now in the end he couldn't choose , and all that is left is the devil himself , and he is doubting that , was this all the devil's work??
"So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die"
- Now he is talking about his mother that her heart has gone hard like a stone , and how he was born and she didn't help him to choose the right path
"Oh baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here"
-Oh my mother, can't do this to me, in the end he chose to run away from everything
"Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters nothing really matters to me
Anyway the wind blows"
- Now he is at the stage, where he is just lost and doesn't care about anything anymore ...
That is all folks, hope you enjoyed this, and if you have anything to add it would be great, i know it is a long take , but it is fun to read and enjoy .
Art is not simple but it is relate-able to everyone , and this is how I relate to this amazing song.
Peace be upon you all <3
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