Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening meīut I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves meīismillah! No, we will not let you go – let him goīismillah! We will not let you go – let him goīismillah! We will not let you go – let me go Scaramouch, scaramouch, will you do the fandango Tim Rice, co-creator of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, as well as a collaborator of Mercury’s, once said, “It’s fairly obvious to me that was Freddie’s coming-out song.” (From Into.) I’m not the only one thinking along these lines. It’s possible that Mercury’s songs Somebody to Love and Under Pressure are also about his inner demons. Isn’t it strange that so…well…FUN a song is so wrapped up in death and killing? Perhaps in a weird way, Mercury is singing about himself and his own life through this narrative metaphor. I think he used macabre themes from old plays and operas to cast an image that was delightfully off-kilter and evocative. You can look at it now and understand a little better what Mercury was going for. It is called “Bohemian Rhapsody” because it depicts the life of a ‘ bohemian‘, whose original meaning is ‘artist’ while ‘ Rhapsody‘ is a fantasy (literally, it could play in his head) or a vision within this song Freddie Mercury foresees his life in a symbolic way.īelow are the lyrics for the operatic section of the song - the part that trips everyone up.
Let’s back up a little bit and see the entire picture Mercury was trying to evoke.
“It’s a key phrase, which reveals the entire meaning of the song, and usually it isn’t translated by the researchers. “I’ve read somewhere that the line ‘Gallileo figaro magnifico’ in the middle of the ‘operatic’ section of the song, actually, is a slightly corrupted Latin phrase, ‘Galileo figuro magnifico’, translated as ‘Magnify the Galilean’s image’. The best explanation I’ve seen is in this music forum, by a poster called, fittingly, Galileo: Next, what’s with Galileo? Does this refer the the early astronomer? Or is a Galileo Figaro Magnifico something else entirely?.In the song, it’s probably referring to “the hemp fandango,” a delightfully ghastly euphemism for being hanged. The meaning here is that Fandango is a fast Spanish dance.
#MEANING OF STORY OF MY LIFE SONG MOVIE#
The Fandango is not just an online movie ticket outlet.The Wikipedia goes on to say a bit more: Scaramouche (from Italian scaramuccia, literally “little skirmisher”), also known as scaramouch, is a stock clown character of the commedia dell’arte (comic theatrical arts of Italian literature). SongFacts says the word “Scaramouch” means “A stock character that appears as a boastful coward.” How about Scaramouch? (Scaramouch, scaramouch, will you do the fandango?).Old English Belzebub, Philistine god worshipped at Ekron (2 Kings i:2), from Latin, used in Vulgate for New Testament Greek beelzeboub, from Hebrew ba’al-z’bub “lord of the flies,” from ba’al “lord” + z’bhubh “fly.”Īpparently Freddy Mercury is using this name to signify Lucifer himself, or his demonic equivalent. Who exactly is Beelzebub? It’s something to do with the devil, sure, but what’s the exact story? (Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me…for me…FOR MEEEEEE!!!) He’s telling his mother goodbye, and feeling like the devil is waiting for him.
Let’s start with the obvious aspects: a young man killed someone, and he’s apparently about to pay for it with death.
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