| Queen – I Want To Break Free Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The mood changes as the song goes on - it's quite clever really. The first two verses ("I want to break free", "I've fallen in love") are very strong, positive and defiant in the desire to get out of whatever it is (a relationship, I think) that's gone wrong. There's nothing he wants more than to break free ("I've got to break free"). The "It's strange, but it's true" bit always threw me, but I think it's sung to the person he's fallen in love. The doubts are setting in now: "But I have to be sure, when I walk out that door" - does he really want to break free? Does he love this person enough to leave whoever he's with at the moment? Can he break free? By the last verse, he's done it - he's left her/it/whatever. And now he's done it, he realises how much he needed her/it - "I can't get used to living without you/I don't want to live alone". The person he's left has such a hold on him that, although he knows he's got to complete the break, he can barely bring himself to do it. And the last line, "So baby can't you see, I've got break free", re-enforces that: he hasn't broken free yet, not really. She's still got that hold on him so that he's truly not free. Like I say, it's a bit more ambiguous than the title might suggest and it's a cracker of a song. |
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| Queen – These Are The Days Of Our Lives Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Most "sources" I've seen say Roger wrote it - it just doesn't "sound" like a Freddie song. Plus Roger had kids, when Freddie didn't. Anyway, it's a great song. If it is Roger, it sounds like he knows Queen's time's up (at least with Freddie) and he's reflecting on the good times they had, taking a positive view of things and trying to think of all the good times they had. Sounds sickly sweet, I know, but Roger often took a positive view on things. It's vaguely reminiscent of Drowse off "A Day at the Races", looking back on life, except this is more serious. I wonder if much of Innuendo is the same, the band trying to make sense of what they know's coming, either through rage (Innuendo), defiance (The Show must go on) or nostalgia (Days of our lives)? The video is awesome. When are they going to bring out Greatest Video Hits III on DVD?!?!? |
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| Queen – Made In Heaven Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Actually, Freddie wrote this for his solo album "Mr Bad Guy" and it was re-done (to the original vocal) after Freddie died, by the other members of Queen. So it was probably recorded 1983/4 (perhaps earlier), long before Mercury developed AIDS. I wonder if it's him taking stock - Queen were taking a break after 11-12 years together, so it must have been a weird time for all of them? I wonder if he's trying to work out what it's all been about so far, where he's at etc. "Made in Heaven" may refer to how great his life with Queen's been so far, about their rise to fame and the position they find themselves in now, global superstars etc. I think it's a song of contentment with life - whatever life throws at him, he feels OK with it ("When stormy weather..."), but he prefers it when it goes well ("When sunny skies...") |
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| Queen – Under Pressure Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'd never thought of it in the way ChildofMusic and prilla1206 say, but that makes sense, thinking about the lyrics and the differences between Mercury and Bowie's parts. I'd heard somewhere that the song was originally to be called "People on the Streets", and that line features heavily in the song. So, I wonder if this is about our attitudes to the "undesirables" in society - the people on streets etc., that our world throws out. The conflict between Bowie and Mercury then becomes about how we treat this people: Freddie sings "can't we give love one more chance", we need to love these people? But Bowie's words point out what that means: love as a word is easy to say, but it has vast implications, i.e. "love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night and... change our way of caring about ourselves". There's almost a challenge in these words: are we up to it? Agree that this is a great song and Vanilla Ice's rip-off is horrendous. |
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