Fear Is The Key Lyrics
This song is about how people used to be able to have sex and not really have to worry about anything, but now that AIDS are around people have to be very carful before having sex because they may end up cathcing AIDS and dying. The quote "Nobody cares until sombody famous dies" is about when Freddie Mercury died from AIDS and everyone got scared. Very good song.
@IronBlackZepp Yes, Freddie or Rock Hudson
@IronBlackZepp Yes, Freddie or Rock Hudson
First of all I think this is a great song. Not one of their best, but still comment worthy. I think it's about how fear is the key in controlling how people live. How people use fear as ways to minipulate others to do what they want.
1st para= we live in fear, and places at night are too violent i.e pubs, streets. 2nd para= people are afraid today and only famous people can afford security. 3rd para= unless you use fear in todays world, you will always be outnumbered unfairly. chorus= there was a time when life was carefree, but now is too violent for that.
i think the song is about a carefree person who wants things to be carefree, but the only way he do this is use fear and become no better than a dictator.
bottom line- your either very powerful or controlled in modern society
The song is about AIDS DAMMIT..........it's obvious
aids? @_@
IronBlackZepp is right. Freddie Mercury died of AIDS the year before this song was released, and was the first (or one of the first) big stars to die of the disease, and really spread awareness of how devastating the disease is. I'm actually having to read a book about something similar for school, "Still Life With Buddy" by Leslie Newman. Read it if you get the chance; it's an excellent book. I cried reading it. Now we have antiretrovirals and stuff like that, but in 1992, there was nothing they could dofor you if you were HIV-positive. It was horrible.
Not forgetting that Steve Harris-like myself-is a big Alastair McLean fan and Fear Is The Key was one of McLeans later novels.