Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, released in 1975, is a groundbreaking rock song written by Freddie Mercury. The track is a unique blend of multiple musical styles, including opera, rock, and ballad, and is composed of six distinct sections, such as an a cappella introduction, a dramatic ballad, a powerful guitar solo, an operatic passage, a hard rock segment, and a conclusive outro. The song’s innovative structure and remarkable complexity made it one of the most iconic and influential songs in rock music history.

Did You Know

• “Bohemian Rhapsody” is a six-minute rock opera recorded by Queen in 1975.
  
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• The song combines rock, pop, and classical music in a way that was groundbreaking at the time.
  
• The memorable line “Scaramouche, Scaramouche, can you do the Fandango?” was inspired by an Italian clown character and has become one of rock’s most recognizable lyrics.

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Lyrics

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide

No escape from reality

Open your eyes

Look up to the skies and see

I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy

Because I’m easy come, easy go

Little high, little low

Any way the wind blows

Doesn’t really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man

Put a gun against his head

Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead

Mama, life had just begun

But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away

Mama, ooh

Didn’t mean to make you cry

If I’m not back again this time tomorrow

Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come

Sends shivers down my spine

Body’s aching all the time

Goodbye, everybody, I’ve got to go

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

Mama, ooh (Any way the wind blows)

I don’t wanna die

I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?

Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me

(Galileo) Galileo

(Galileo) Galileo

Galileo Figaro

Magnifico-o-o-o-o

I’m just a poor boy, nobody loves me

He’s just a poor boy from a poor family

Spare him his life from this monstrosity

Easy come, easy go, will you 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!)

Will not let you go (Let me go!)

Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)

Oh oh oh oh

No, no, no, no, no, no, no

Oh, mamma mia, mamma mia (Mamma mia, let me go)

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?

So you think you can love me and leave me to die?

Oh, baby, can’t do this to me, baby

Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here

Ooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah

Nothing really matters

Anyone can see

Nothing really matters

Nothing really matters to me

Any way the wind blows