I think alot of you are not looking in the right place for the meaning of the song. I think the key to this song lies in the line: "Through the Sorrow; All through the Splender; Don't take offence at my; Innuendo". I believe that this line is the key for a few reasons. The rest of the song is loud, powerfull and optemistic. This seems to be the songs one low note. It is like the song is showing a person's outside appearence, their large and monumentous actions, and this line shows the one simple thing, that one thought guiding them. The song is also titled innuendo, as is the album. If you look at this song, it is talking about the future, about possibilities, about goals. However, at this point, Freddie Mercury new that he was going to die, and probably soon, although he kept this fact hidden. I think that this song is about the facade that he is putting up and that this one line is the one line where he admits his fate. I think this line is in a way a farewell mesage saying I'm sorry I could not succeed in the goals layed in the rest of the song. I think in this case, the innuendo refers to the empty intentions, how he wanted to change the world, but now he is affraid that the goals that he set were nothing but innuendo: a suggenstion at something without the results to back it up.
By reading your comment I'm very fascinated by this. You must be a big and enormous fan of Queen. It's very refreshing to see somebody is truthfully conscious of the world we live in. You have a higher understanding because choose not to remain ignorant . Very well said!!! Cheers...
By reading your comment I'm very fascinated by this. You must be a big and enormous fan of Queen. It's very refreshing to see somebody is truthfully conscious of the world we live in. You have a higher understanding because choose not to remain ignorant . Very well said!!! Cheers...
@malec2b This fascinated me and made me look at back the entire album (no pain, it's my third fav album) and noticed a pattern throughout the songs, i will start where you left off. This truly made me think what the line "If there's a God or any kind of
justice under the sky If there's a point, if there's a reason to live or die Ha, if there's an answer to the questions we feel bound to ask Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask" meant. I think it means he was questioning his and everyone's existence,...
@malec2b This fascinated me and made me look at back the entire album (no pain, it's my third fav album) and noticed a pattern throughout the songs, i will start where you left off. This truly made me think what the line "If there's a God or any kind of
justice under the sky If there's a point, if there's a reason to live or die Ha, if there's an answer to the questions we feel bound to ask Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask" meant. I think it means he was questioning his and everyone's existence, something everyone i know and i would do when we are dying, he may have been saying how we believe in a god but it never showed itself, the fact that we can't comprehend the scheme of things, the question that is there a point to live or die? He was asking to the higher creature why it wasn't answering our questions, why it wasn't destroying our fears, why it didn't take off it's mask. This matches perfectly with the line "False Religion" as it is saying that everything we ever believed in, science, religion, everything could be a lie, that we could never learn the truth, the secret may never unmask itself. Also the video matches perfectly with your comment, the fact it kept showing a Theatre with Queen performing on the screen, the fact that they won't be able to change the world with music, which is why they aren't there, merely fragments of the past lingering in where they began. Also the part with the masks falling inside a mask represents the fact that those masks were his dreams, his dreams to change the world, falling apart inside the one other mask, the gold mask which represents himself.
I'm Going Slightly Mad is the example of his madness, the fact that the later stages of AIDS will cause loss of memory and worse, the song is about how he is losing his sanity to the later stages of AIDS, i don't need to go through the lyrics, the whole song is about it.
I can't find any meaning in Headlong that goes with this theory, i think it was just a entertainment song...
I can't live without you gives the most info in this verse "Yeah I'm having a hard time I'm walking a fine line between hope and despair You may think that I don't care But I traveled a long road to get hold of my sorrow I tried to catch a dream But nothing's what it seems Love is saying baby it's all right When deep inside you're really petrified Lover turns to hater On this escalator" It seems this is saying that he is going through sorrow and misery, his love is turning to hate, he's petrified of death, his love of the world is telling him it's okay when he truly believes it isn't, like he is trying to deceive himself into not being terrified. The line "Through the madness through the tears We've still got each other For a million years, yeah" is saying throughout his misery and madness (I'm Going Slightly Mad) he has his friends helping him get through it, they've still got each other for as long as he lasts. The fact that this was written by May shows how much he is there for Freddie.
Don't Try So Hard is where he is stopping himself from pushing himself to hard along with the other bandmates trying so hard to please him in his final hours. He knows he is weak and he doesn't want to destroy himself even more but still live a happy ending. His friends are trying to give him happiness but he just wants them to relax and live happily as well.
I couldn't find a meaning linking to this in Ride The Wild Wind. I think that it is about a motorcycle of some kind, considering it was written by Tyler and since he wrote about a song about another auto mobile (I'm In Love With My Car) i assume this meets it too.
All God's People is about him feeling that he is starting to connect to God during his death, i am a atheist (don't judge me please, i respect all beliefs, it is about who you are, not what you believe in) and i believe he truly was feeling better because of his beliefs, the placebo effect really made him happy during writing this song, i know Freddie believed in Christianity (Bohemian Rhapsody and Seven Seas Of Rhye) but he was never crazy into religion, that was what made him amazing, he accepted all beliefs.
These Are The Days Of Our Lives is how all the bandmates wished they were young again, the line "The rest of my life's been - just a show" is how they have been treated as if their entire lives are just shows for other people.
Delilah is pretty easy to explain so i will copy and paste the wikipedia sentence explaining. "Delilah" is a song Mercury penned for his favourite female tortoiseshell cat, which was called Delilah.
I'm not to sure at The Hitman on the meaning, whether or not it was about his death or not, i never understood it, maybe you can help me.
Bijou is a love song i think, i'm not to sure on this one either.
The Show Must Go On (My favorite song) is about how the band must go on, how everyone must go on, after Freddie, after any bad thing. Freddie sang this when he was in his worst point in AIDS and couldn't walk, but his voice was the most powerful it had ever been as he had the emotion of a man with Death at his door and the great voice of Freddie Mercury, no man can copy the emotion of a dying man. This song was done in 1 take, 1 perfect take by Freddie, this song was recorded and published 6 weeks before Freddie's death, Do not think the band forced Freddie to do this, they were trying to stop him, he did it even though he was in some of the worst pain he had ever been in.
If you disagree with anything please tell me, i would love to make this better
I think alot of you are not looking in the right place for the meaning of the song. I think the key to this song lies in the line: "Through the Sorrow; All through the Splender; Don't take offence at my; Innuendo". I believe that this line is the key for a few reasons. The rest of the song is loud, powerfull and optemistic. This seems to be the songs one low note. It is like the song is showing a person's outside appearence, their large and monumentous actions, and this line shows the one simple thing, that one thought guiding them. The song is also titled innuendo, as is the album. If you look at this song, it is talking about the future, about possibilities, about goals. However, at this point, Freddie Mercury new that he was going to die, and probably soon, although he kept this fact hidden. I think that this song is about the facade that he is putting up and that this one line is the one line where he admits his fate. I think this line is in a way a farewell mesage saying I'm sorry I could not succeed in the goals layed in the rest of the song. I think in this case, the innuendo refers to the empty intentions, how he wanted to change the world, but now he is affraid that the goals that he set were nothing but innuendo: a suggenstion at something without the results to back it up.
This is my interpretation of the song
By reading your comment I'm very fascinated by this. You must be a big and enormous fan of Queen. It's very refreshing to see somebody is truthfully conscious of the world we live in. You have a higher understanding because choose not to remain ignorant . Very well said!!! Cheers...
By reading your comment I'm very fascinated by this. You must be a big and enormous fan of Queen. It's very refreshing to see somebody is truthfully conscious of the world we live in. You have a higher understanding because choose not to remain ignorant . Very well said!!! Cheers...
@malec2b This fascinated me and made me look at back the entire album (no pain, it's my third fav album) and noticed a pattern throughout the songs, i will start where you left off. This truly made me think what the line "If there's a God or any kind of justice under the sky If there's a point, if there's a reason to live or die Ha, if there's an answer to the questions we feel bound to ask Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask" meant. I think it means he was questioning his and everyone's existence,...
@malec2b This fascinated me and made me look at back the entire album (no pain, it's my third fav album) and noticed a pattern throughout the songs, i will start where you left off. This truly made me think what the line "If there's a God or any kind of justice under the sky If there's a point, if there's a reason to live or die Ha, if there's an answer to the questions we feel bound to ask Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask" meant. I think it means he was questioning his and everyone's existence, something everyone i know and i would do when we are dying, he may have been saying how we believe in a god but it never showed itself, the fact that we can't comprehend the scheme of things, the question that is there a point to live or die? He was asking to the higher creature why it wasn't answering our questions, why it wasn't destroying our fears, why it didn't take off it's mask. This matches perfectly with the line "False Religion" as it is saying that everything we ever believed in, science, religion, everything could be a lie, that we could never learn the truth, the secret may never unmask itself. Also the video matches perfectly with your comment, the fact it kept showing a Theatre with Queen performing on the screen, the fact that they won't be able to change the world with music, which is why they aren't there, merely fragments of the past lingering in where they began. Also the part with the masks falling inside a mask represents the fact that those masks were his dreams, his dreams to change the world, falling apart inside the one other mask, the gold mask which represents himself.
I'm Going Slightly Mad is the example of his madness, the fact that the later stages of AIDS will cause loss of memory and worse, the song is about how he is losing his sanity to the later stages of AIDS, i don't need to go through the lyrics, the whole song is about it.
I can't find any meaning in Headlong that goes with this theory, i think it was just a entertainment song...
I can't live without you gives the most info in this verse "Yeah I'm having a hard time I'm walking a fine line between hope and despair You may think that I don't care But I traveled a long road to get hold of my sorrow I tried to catch a dream But nothing's what it seems Love is saying baby it's all right When deep inside you're really petrified Lover turns to hater On this escalator" It seems this is saying that he is going through sorrow and misery, his love is turning to hate, he's petrified of death, his love of the world is telling him it's okay when he truly believes it isn't, like he is trying to deceive himself into not being terrified. The line "Through the madness through the tears We've still got each other For a million years, yeah" is saying throughout his misery and madness (I'm Going Slightly Mad) he has his friends helping him get through it, they've still got each other for as long as he lasts. The fact that this was written by May shows how much he is there for Freddie.
Don't Try So Hard is where he is stopping himself from pushing himself to hard along with the other bandmates trying so hard to please him in his final hours. He knows he is weak and he doesn't want to destroy himself even more but still live a happy ending. His friends are trying to give him happiness but he just wants them to relax and live happily as well.
I couldn't find a meaning linking to this in Ride The Wild Wind. I think that it is about a motorcycle of some kind, considering it was written by Tyler and since he wrote about a song about another auto mobile (I'm In Love With My Car) i assume this meets it too.
All God's People is about him feeling that he is starting to connect to God during his death, i am a atheist (don't judge me please, i respect all beliefs, it is about who you are, not what you believe in) and i believe he truly was feeling better because of his beliefs, the placebo effect really made him happy during writing this song, i know Freddie believed in Christianity (Bohemian Rhapsody and Seven Seas Of Rhye) but he was never crazy into religion, that was what made him amazing, he accepted all beliefs.
These Are The Days Of Our Lives is how all the bandmates wished they were young again, the line "The rest of my life's been - just a show" is how they have been treated as if their entire lives are just shows for other people.
Delilah is pretty easy to explain so i will copy and paste the wikipedia sentence explaining. "Delilah" is a song Mercury penned for his favourite female tortoiseshell cat, which was called Delilah.
I'm not to sure at The Hitman on the meaning, whether or not it was about his death or not, i never understood it, maybe you can help me.
Bijou is a love song i think, i'm not to sure on this one either.
The Show Must Go On (My favorite song) is about how the band must go on, how everyone must go on, after Freddie, after any bad thing. Freddie sang this when he was in his worst point in AIDS and couldn't walk, but his voice was the most powerful it had ever been as he had the emotion of a man with Death at his door and the great voice of Freddie Mercury, no man can copy the emotion of a dying man. This song was done in 1 take, 1 perfect take by Freddie, this song was recorded and published 6 weeks before Freddie's death, Do not think the band forced Freddie to do this, they were trying to stop him, he did it even though he was in some of the worst pain he had ever been in.
If you disagree with anything please tell me, i would love to make this better