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Queen – '39 Lyrics

22 years ago

quote from Brian May: It’s a science fiction story. It’s the story about someone who goes away and leaves his family and because of the time dilation effect, when you go away, the people on earth have aged a lot more than he has when he comes home. He’s aged a year and they’ve aged 100 years so, instead of coming back to his wife, he comes back to his daughter and he can see his wife in his daughter, a strange story. I think, also, I had in mind a story of Herman Hesse which I think is called ‘The River’. A man leaves his hometown and has lots of travels and then comes back and observes his hometown from the other side of the river. He sees it in a different light having been away and experienced all those different things. He sees it in a very illuminating way, cause I felt a little bit like that about My home at the time as well having been away and seen this vastly different world of Rock music. Totally different from the way I was brought up and I had those feelings about Home.

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Queen – Machines (Or 'Back to Humans') Lyrics	22 years ago
Now I think about it, this song is also possbily about embracing the new machine age, both in music and in life. I would go into more detail, but my sister is bothering me as she needs to use the fone line.

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Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song Lyrics	22 years ago
I agree with you all on the viking thing, but: don't the lyrics also seem to have a sub-text of deflowering a virgin? "How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore".... "Valhalla, I am coming!" Just a thought

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Queen – Machines (Or 'Back to Humans') Lyrics	22 years ago
That, or worries about machines taking over music and baddening it, remember this is not long after they had first started dabbling with the dark art of synths, and there were a couple of songs on this album which were jus so horrible and pop and unqueen. And you know what, they were right, look at music now, yuk....

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Queen – My Fairy King Lyrics	22 years ago
To me this seems to be about man coming along and buggering up the beauty of nature, although it perhaps compares mother nautre to a real woman or person, who has somehow been defiled or similar.

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Queen – Ogre Battle Lyrics

22 years ago

Queen II has to be one of my fave albums, and this is one of my fave songs from my fave side, lol. Ogre Battle seems to be a glam fantasy like a lot on this album, but there may be an underlying symbolism that I have missed. If you have any idea add them here. Did you know that the end and beggining on this song are symetrical, and if you play it backwards then the whole intro sounds just as it does forwards. Try it.

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Queen – '39 Lyrics

22 years ago

To me, "volunteers" immediately meant soldiers of some kind. '39 seemed to mean 1939 ie: WW2, but there are so many lyrics that confuse me. "In the days when lands were few", and other lines seem to suggest that these events took place hundreds or even thousands of years ago. whatever it means, it is a wonderful song which would be the kind of thing you would sing on your way to battle, in amongts the likes of "its a long way to tipperary". Or like a folk song, passing down stories the old fashioned way. Anyhow I love it.

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Queen – Seven Seas Of Rhye Lyrics	22 years ago
It seems to be a complete glam fantasy to me, and i love it. I dont know if it has an underlying meaning, but to me it has always seemed in th same ilk as Led Zep's immigrant song.

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