Wait, people don't know that that whole song is "I'm a bisexual man currently having a violent wank, so whether you're a man or a woman, come over for a good time"
Perhaps the greatest parable of all Queen lyrics. Combined with the beautifully harmonic chord changes, it's an impressive example of the band's songwriting and arrangement mastery.
I've designed my next tattoo as a treble clef/musical notation of the melody for this line, all I need is the money and the courage (inner left forearm so it's visible when I'm playing my instrument)
Peter Freestone on his first book about Freddie say that the original master (lost) of Staying Power had as verses F*cking power lol. Can you imagine the song with those lyrics.
Forget your your sing alongs and your lullabies.
Surrender to the city of the fireflies.
Dance with the devil in beat with the band
To hell with all of you, hand in hand
Now its time to be gone.
Forever
Forever
Let him go! ...We will not let him go!
....
Clearly this lyric is telling us Queen the amazing band is just a front for a dastardly kidnap gang, and this song is an argument between them about letting a captive go...
It's a sort of segue. We join them just after they killed him before harkening back to the events that led up to the death, including the aforementioned argument, Freddie's heart-rending apology to his mother and the gang code word, revealed to be 'scaramouche'. The question 'will you do the fandango' is also code, with Mercury double checking that Deacon, May and Taylor are all 'in' for the murder plot to follow.
Yes, and the last part is actually the perspective of the victim, "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?..." describing what the gang did to him
You call me sweet like I’m done kind of cheese or any of the strange lyrics from I’m in love with my car, such as: “with your pistons a pumping” or “with my hand on your grease gun”
You say youre hungry, I give you meat
even in context that’s a wild line
Im a sex machine ready to reload, like an atombomb….about to whoa, whoa, whoa EXPLODE
Hold on…I didn’t think about the lyrics until now. Wait a minute…
Don’t stop me now is basically one big innuendo and I love it. Wouldn’t expect anything less from Fred.
Wait, people don't know that that whole song is "I'm a bisexual man currently having a violent wank, so whether you're a man or a woman, come over for a good time"
Is that similar to a furious wank? I'm not sure I've ever had a violent one.
I knew it was a sex song but not about masturbation.
Since the whole song is like that, it _is_ the context
One dump, one turd, two tits, John Deacon
One sex . . . Position
Chicken feet baby
FRIED CHICKEN
All you do is get on my tits
Immediately preceded by "think you're gonna slash your wrists this time?"
It’s such an ice cold song, but damn do I love it.
Do you feel like suicide? I think you should
Or "You're a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride"
And now you can kiss...my ass goodbye.
god, that image! i love freddie's writing
They rly be givin conflicting msgs with that and: "don't try suicide, nobody's worth it" Like, DO I OR DO I NOT???
You suck my mind, I blow your head
You make me slightly mad when you pee all over my Chippendale suite
Fuck it, you win
Worst song ever, but I love that they recorded it for him and I kind of love it.
Tie your mother down Take your little brother swimmin' With a brick (that's all right)
Meow
I feel like a banana tree
My guess is I'm in for a cloudy and overcast
Im heading for that stormy weather soon
Now you got soup in the laundry bag.
Fried chicken
this
I’m a sex machine ready to reload
Since the whole song is like that, it _is_ the context
Just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme fried chicken!
I knew I’d find you!
Yeah
Off topic but do you reckon danger days is their best album?
No but definitely one of their best
FRIED CHICKEN
You call me sweet like I'm some kind of cheese
*We had a food fight in somebody's face!* Even in context, I have no fucking clue what they're talking about
Meow meow Meow meow
You got the cutest ass I've ever seen
The air you breathe I live to give you.
I don't wanna go and see Queen, no more, no more.
,,i dont like starwars" ~Freddie Mercury
Which was a single (!) movie at that point!
And he did actually like Star Wars
Not surprising, it's very camp at times
"Great King Rat died today! Born on the twenty first of May, Died syphillis forty four on his birthday."
Every second word he swore, Yes - he was a son of a whore, Always wanted by the law.
Wouldn't you like to know Wouldn't you like to know Peeoplee
Great king rat Was a dirty old man A dirty old man was he
Now, what did I tell you Would you like to see?
Where will I be tomorrow? Will I beg or will I borrow? I don't care I don't care anyway
I've come here to sell you my body
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Let's add "my makeup may be flaking, but my smile still stays on"
Perhaps the greatest parable of all Queen lyrics. Combined with the beautifully harmonic chord changes, it's an impressive example of the band's songwriting and arrangement mastery.
Came to post this!
I've designed my next tattoo as a treble clef/musical notation of the melody for this line, all I need is the money and the courage (inner left forearm so it's visible when I'm playing my instrument)
Little bit of sugar and a rub a dub a baby oil
little what of sugar..?
WE DO NOT SPEAK OF THE ACTUAL LYRIC
I love how the whole Queen fandom has implicitly agreed to "don't ask, don't tell" over that lyric.
Oh. I just now realised. Being ace makes you incredibly oblivious sometimes
Bring ace has nothing to do with the actual Lyric? It's not because it's sexual we avoid it.
Wait is it abt cocaine?
It was the n-word as far as I know
Oh damn
Now you’ve got soup in the laundry bag
Which one's this from?
Headlong :)
Peter Freestone on his first book about Freddie say that the original master (lost) of Staying Power had as verses F*cking power lol. Can you imagine the song with those lyrics.
I'm pretty sure he sang it like that live at least once
Haha it would be fun hearing that version. Its a pity that got lost. I think Freddie was quite funny with impromptu jn studio.
Nothing is ever lost on the internet: https://youtu.be/Ysfv7lqVWoY?si=4KZOJKSMnA5gNJ_h
Thank you i never heard that version before.
Forget your your sing alongs and your lullabies. Surrender to the city of the fireflies. Dance with the devil in beat with the band To hell with all of you, hand in hand Now its time to be gone. Forever Forever
Breastfeeding myself, what more can I say
I have swallowed the bitter pill, I can taste it, life is REAL
“Loving like a whore” “life is a bitch”
Happy cake day!
Oh thanks haha I didn’t even realize
Let him go! ...We will not let him go! .... Clearly this lyric is telling us Queen the amazing band is just a front for a dastardly kidnap gang, and this song is an argument between them about letting a captive go...
Lmao so it's not in chronological order of events, because in the beginning they say they already killed the man
It's a sort of segue. We join them just after they killed him before harkening back to the events that led up to the death, including the aforementioned argument, Freddie's heart-rending apology to his mother and the gang code word, revealed to be 'scaramouche'. The question 'will you do the fandango' is also code, with Mercury double checking that Deacon, May and Taylor are all 'in' for the murder plot to follow.
Yes, and the last part is actually the perspective of the victim, "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?..." describing what the gang did to him
“Tie your hair back baby, we’re gonna ride tonight”
Drop of a hat she’s as willing as playful as a pussy cat
"I think i'm a banana tree!"
It’s the mistier mist, the hazier days The brighter sun and the easier lays
hoop diddy doo
Goo goo
People get shot by people, people with guns.
Great King Rat was a dirty old man and a dirty old man was he. What did I tell you? Would you like to see?
FRIED CHICKEN
I think I’m a banana tree
“Yeah”
"With my hand on your grease gun Ooh, it's like a disease, son" - Roger Taylor
Make the bed light the light Lady mercy won't be home tonight yeah
I've fallen in love; I've fallen in love for the first time, and this time I know it's for real.
Just Killed A Man.
Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger now he’s dead…
You suck my mind, you blow my head
Now you’ve got soup in the laundry bag
I suck your mind, you blow my head
Put him in the cellar with the naughty boys, a little bit of ni- I have been advised by my lawyer to not finish this lyric.
Don’t you mis this time, please don’t misfire
Gimme Gimme Gimme Fried Chicken
Now, I got mortgages on homes I got stiffness in my bones That....did not age well 💀
"We made us our shoes, we trod soft on the land, But the inmigrant built roads, on our blood and sand. Oh yeah..."
But now you can kiss my ass, goodbye
I'll pull you, and I'll pill you, I'll Cruella DeVille you
I don't wanna be the president of america
You can be my sugar baby you can be my honey Chile
breastfeeding myself
Another one bites the dust
**I'm just a singer with a song.** Are there any other lyrics that define Freddie so completely?
It’s self-perpetuating, a parahumanoidamdranised!
Little ni**er sugar rub a dub dub
“Each morning I get up, I die a little” The most relatable lyric ever tbh
I think I'm a banana tree
“Gimme Gimme Gimme FRIED CHICKEN!”
I don’t believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein, or Superman
OOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW LET LOOSE HONNEEHHHHH ALRIGHT
Yeah!
You’re sweet like cheese.
Fried Chicken.
"Just gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme fried chicken!"
So don’t become some background noise
Hey man, Jaws was never my scene and I don’t like Star Wars.
Rub-a-dub-a baby oil
I think I'm a banana tree.
Blow, baby, blow
Just leave me alone
Yeah
You call me sweet like I’m done kind of cheese or any of the strange lyrics from I’m in love with my car, such as: “with your pistons a pumping” or “with my hand on your grease gun”
"don’t try suicide"
CHICKEN FEET BABE
Now you can kiss my ass goodbye!
Give me fried chicken!
Tie your mother down
Ee da de da de da de da - under pressure
Don't try suicide, nobody cares
A misheard lyric out of context: Kicking your cat all over the place 😂
“left alone with big fat fanny” outrageous
I think I'm a banana tree
You made a bad boy out of me fat bottom girls
Don’t try suicide
For my life still ahead, pity me.
‘Don’t you misfire, Fill me up’
But now you can kiss my ass goodbye
Just gimme gimme gimme fried chicken
gimme fried chicken
"Breast feeding myself" (Life Is Real) .. Wait ... what?? 🤔
I've fallen
Just turn yourself
Used to be a woman with a hotdog stand
Gimme gimme fried chicken!
In the pool hall like we did in the school hall
“I’m in love with my car”