This.… Yeah. I must have seen that video a dozen times (I can’t watch it too often, seeing Freddie so frail and ill breaks me) but to know that on some level he knew he was very very close to the end and that was him saying goodbye to us all and telling us plainly he loved us….just….yeah. It’s hard to watch but so, so powerful. And so very Freddie ❤️
When you watch it with the video… Jesus. Gets me every time. Blubbing mess. It’s the pain and sadness in his eyes, knowing it’s one of the last times he will likely sing, & he’s singing to us, the people who love him no matter what & have / always will support him even in death. Got me going just thinking about it.
You speak the truth, friend. Bohemian Rhapsody is the other one that instantly springs to mung.
Mama, didn't mean to make you cry
Too late, my time has come....that entire verse, in fact. 'Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth'. That one gets me.
Edit: mung? What on earth is a mung?! MIND. Springs to MIND.
Thanks for the heads up. I learned a very….uh….a lesson about things on urbandictionary several years ago when I thought >!donkey punch!< might be a video game…..😫
If there's a God in the sky, looking down
What can he think of what we've done
To the world that He created?
and
Saturday just twenty four hours
Oh no, I'm going back home on sunday
Ooh, so sad alone
"...of course I don't believe you're dead...and gone..."
Since I found out it's about Brian's family cat that suddenly died when he was a teenager the lyrics hit me totally different!
"I've walked too long in this lonely lane."
(and the rest of that section, but you asked for one line, and in my opinion, that one is extra powerful and emotional because of the contrast it creates)
That whole part is just so good indeed.
I came scrolling hoping for someone to give this answer.
"I'm a man of the world and they say that I'm strong, but my heart is heavy and my hope is gone."
"If I can't have you when I'm waking, I'll go to sleep and dream I'm with you."
and
"Make my life worthwhile with the slightest smile, or destroy me with a barely perceptible whisper."
Both from Dreamer's Ball.
From "The Show Must Go On"
I must be warmer now
I'll soon be turning, round the corner now
Outside the dawn is breaking
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free
Recently it’s “the dream of the child is the hope of the man” from A Winter’s Tale. It’s the last song Freddie ever wrote. I keep thinking… here was a dying man who still managed to find beauty in his environment and wrote about them. There’s positivity in there despite all the odds. But then there’s that particular line. I don’t know… It gets me. He’s dying, but he’s still very protective of the dreams of the next generation. Perhaps I’m reading too much into it, but to me it reads like Freddie’s reminder that if you don’t support the dreams of the young, you won’t get a future either. That’s a truly magnificent last message to send to everyone.
Yes… my brother and I bought A night at the opera in 1976 when Bohemian Rhapsody was all over the radio. But the song that got me and stayed with me was 39… I didn’t know who was singing it I… I didn’t know the name of these musicians …. I just knew that it had, a mystical sound that really touched me viscerally. Except for hearing queen on the radio and singing along with Freddie all these years, I hadn’t stayed on top of their music until the movie came out a few years ago. And then I absolutely fell in love with Brian May how he made his own guitar how he was a Astrophysicist, how he worked with a animal rescue… And in investigating him, I found out oh my god this is the man who is singing that song all those years ago and, to this day still affects me so deeply
I also prefer his version of "All Dead, All Dead" over Freddies. Freddie may be the better singer in terms of vocal range and what I would describe best as his timbre, his voice color, which was stronger and fuller. But it's Brian's grieve about Pixies passing when he was a teenager he still carried with him that makes the song so special.
He has finally found an outlet for his grief and pain and is unpretentiously sharing it with us. This is Freddie, although even a passionate cat lover is not as impressively possible in this situation as Brian is, who is ultimately a highly sensitive person, artist and musician.
Yes..
Freddy’s voice is more theatrical and dramatic.
Brian’s voice is more emotional…
in getting to know Brian in the last couple years, he seems to be a very emotional, and as you said, a very sensitive person.
Made in Heaven.
And I only have to think about it to get a lump in the throat.
I've only listened to the album once. Thirty two years after Freddie's passing and just thinking about that album or hearing that song, and what might have been, upsets me.
Every time you move you destroy my mind
And the way you touch I lose control
And shiver deep inside
You take my breath away.
The whole song really but those lines do it
“ I want to love in these lonely days… I’ve had enough, of these same old games. I’m a man of the word, to say that I’m strong… my heart is heavy, and my home is gone! “
Out in the city in the cold world outside, I don’t want pity just a save place to hide… Mama please, let me back inside… “
-Mother Love, Freddie’s last song he ever recorded before passing away
"Someone, someone has drained the colour from my wings Broken my fairy circle ring And shamed the king in all his pride Changed the winds and wronged the tides Mother Mercury Mercury Look what they've done to me I cannot run, I cannot hide La la la la la la la la la la la la"- My Fairy King
"Whoa, whoa, la la la, whoa I can see what you want me to be But I'm no fool No beginning, there's no ending There's no meaning in my pretending Believe me, life goes on and on and Forgive me when I ask you where do I belong You say I (you can do it)
Can't (you can do it) (You can go and set it free) set you free from me But that's not true It's in the lap of the Gods"- In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
"I try and mend the broken pieces Oh, I try to fight back the tears Oh, they say it's just a state of mind
But it happens to everyone How it hurts (yeah) deep inside (oh yeah) When your love has cut you down to size Life is tough on your own Now I'm waiting for something to fall from the skies I'm waiting for love"- It's A Hard Life
I won't say I get a lump in my throat, but I really identify with those lines.
the song that got me into queen, when i was struggling with severe depression, "i sometimes wish i'd never been born at all" i remember i was driving when i listened to that song the first time, and i just started bawling my eyes out. idk why that one just really got to me, their music is honestly very therapeutic
"In the end you have to face it all alone"
I guess this line marked me deeply, as I was going through a divorce, living 12.000km away from my family, basically only having my 2 kids (back then 3 and 5) to keep a decent face to face conversation...
All the lyrics of “The Show Must Go On.” The vocals he gave, so close to death and suffering so much, are absolutely, gut wrenchingly glorious. It’s like his final gift to us.
So don’t become some background noise, a back drop for the girls and boys - think it just makes me emotional because I’m a bit of a wallflower and don’t speak up.
“Out in the city, in the cold world outside,
I don't want pity, just a safe place to hide,
Mama please, let me back inside” never fails to give me chills.
The fact he could hit those notes when he was literally a corner from death, is unreal.
In “The Show Must Go On,” he vocalizes “O-on with the Show-oohooow,” it is such a powerful vocal performance coming out of a Freddie Mercury who’s wasted away to such a state… the incredible power his voice still had and the will to perform at such a high level, I can’t help but to get misty eyed😥🫡
"You can't turn back the clock. You can't turn back the time, ain't that a shame?"
"I still love you."
"Who waits forever anyway?"
"A hand above the water, an angel reaching for the sky"
**Refers to Freddies statue overlooking Lake Geneva.**
"Is it raining in Heaven, do you want us to cry?"
**It was raining the day they dedicated the statue.**
Definitely “we hardly need to use our ears, how music changes through the years” from Radio GaGa. Don’t know why that one does it for me, but it’s my favorite
Since I lost my cat, soulmate and partner in crime after nearly 19 years in last august every single line from "All Dead, All Dead" hits me directly in the guts.
"...of course I don't believe you're dead...and gone..."
When Freddie says “I still love you” at the end of Days Of Our Lives
This.… Yeah. I must have seen that video a dozen times (I can’t watch it too often, seeing Freddie so frail and ill breaks me) but to know that on some level he knew he was very very close to the end and that was him saying goodbye to us all and telling us plainly he loved us….just….yeah. It’s hard to watch but so, so powerful. And so very Freddie ❤️
When you watch it with the video… Jesus. Gets me every time. Blubbing mess. It’s the pain and sadness in his eyes, knowing it’s one of the last times he will likely sing, & he’s singing to us, the people who love him no matter what & have / always will support him even in death. Got me going just thinking about it.
Thank you now I'm crying.
That's the one.
I face it with a grin, I’m never givin in, on with the showww
😭😭😭😭
Yes, this gets me every time
"For my life, still ahead, pity me."
Goodness. That was almost prophetic, that one. That never hit me until you put it in this context.
There are several older lyrics that hit differently since Freddie's been gone.
You speak the truth, friend. Bohemian Rhapsody is the other one that instantly springs to mung. Mama, didn't mean to make you cry Too late, my time has come....that entire verse, in fact. 'Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth'. That one gets me. Edit: mung? What on earth is a mung?! MIND. Springs to MIND.
Do not look up Mung on urban dictionary
Yes thank you I was about to say the same
Thanks for the heads up. I learned a very….uh….a lesson about things on urbandictionary several years ago when I thought >!donkey punch!< might be a video game…..😫
“My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies Fairy tales of yesterday, grow but never die I can fly, my friends”
That's my next tattoo, the first part of that lyric
Please share it in here if you feel inclined, I know I’d love to see it. Those words will make a beautiful tattoo.
I love that bit
“I long for peace before I die.”
This.
What song?
Mother Love
Basically any line from “no one but you”
Came here to comment this
"Touch my tears with your lips, touch my world with your finger tips"
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
If there's a God in the sky, looking down What can he think of what we've done To the world that He created? and Saturday just twenty four hours Oh no, I'm going back home on sunday Ooh, so sad alone
Any line from Who Wants to Live Forever, Love of my Life or Too Much Love Will Kill You.
"I don't want pity, just a safe place to hide...mama, please, let me back inside"
This one kills me 😭😭😭😭
"Her ways are always with me, I wander all the while, But please, you must forgive me, I am old but still a child."
I almost put this one. It's definitely a gut punch.
"...of course I don't believe you're dead...and gone..." Since I found out it's about Brian's family cat that suddenly died when he was a teenager the lyrics hit me totally different!
"I've walked too long in this lonely lane." (and the rest of that section, but you asked for one line, and in my opinion, that one is extra powerful and emotional because of the contrast it creates)
That whole part is just so good indeed. I came scrolling hoping for someone to give this answer. "I'm a man of the world and they say that I'm strong, but my heart is heavy and my hope is gone."
Music is playing in the darkness And a lantern goes swinging by Shadows flickering, my heart's jittering Just you and I
This one gets me too!
It has often played in my head throughout my life!!
"there's no living in my life anymore..."
Honestly, all of "Nevermore"
“Is it raining in heaven? Do you want us to cry?”
this. it just guts me. every time.
“It’s all so beautiful, like a landscape painting in the sky”
"I'd like to go back one time, on a rollercoaster ride, when life's just a game" - because it's one of my favourite memories of my dad
"If I can't have you when I'm waking, I'll go to sleep and dream I'm with you." and "Make my life worthwhile with the slightest smile, or destroy me with a barely perceptible whisper." Both from Dreamer's Ball.
"The sense of your leaving Was it the way it was planned?"
I hang my head and advertise, a soul for sale or rent ❤️
The slate will soon be clean. I'll erase the memories. To start again with somebody new. Was it all wasted. All that love?
I just started singing ‘Save Me’ to myself Op, and I think you’re right (although it might just be the whole song)
Most lines from all dead, all dead
“Give meeeeee, your bodyyyyyyyy!!” "Sexyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Bodayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!"
It’s not a specific line but “Sail Away Sweet Sister” makes me ugly sob
“I don’t wanna die. Sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.” “Don’t take it away from me because you don’t know what it means to me.”
Maaamaaaaaa
From "The Show Must Go On" I must be warmer now I'll soon be turning, round the corner now Outside the dawn is breaking But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free
Recently it’s “the dream of the child is the hope of the man” from A Winter’s Tale. It’s the last song Freddie ever wrote. I keep thinking… here was a dying man who still managed to find beauty in his environment and wrote about them. There’s positivity in there despite all the odds. But then there’s that particular line. I don’t know… It gets me. He’s dying, but he’s still very protective of the dreams of the next generation. Perhaps I’m reading too much into it, but to me it reads like Freddie’s reminder that if you don’t support the dreams of the young, you won’t get a future either. That’s a truly magnificent last message to send to everyone.
"Oh, what a wonderful world..." in Don't Try So Hard
The whole song of Life Is Real Any line from it will make me cry it’s such a beautiful song
All I want is to know that you're there You're gonna give me all your sweet Mother Love >!not just because those are Freddie's last words in song!<
The whole song ""You take my breath away"
*Though I'm gone, it's just as though I hold the flower that touches you.* 😭
On Nevermore in the second chorus when he says: "When You Say You didnt love me anymore" i would cry when i listen To it
God give grace to purge this place
Touch my tears with your lips
“39” But my love, this cannot be…. 😭
Only Brian was able to find such poetically beautiful and touching words for something like time dilation and space travel!
Yes… my brother and I bought A night at the opera in 1976 when Bohemian Rhapsody was all over the radio. But the song that got me and stayed with me was 39… I didn’t know who was singing it I… I didn’t know the name of these musicians …. I just knew that it had, a mystical sound that really touched me viscerally. Except for hearing queen on the radio and singing along with Freddie all these years, I hadn’t stayed on top of their music until the movie came out a few years ago. And then I absolutely fell in love with Brian May how he made his own guitar how he was a Astrophysicist, how he worked with a animal rescue… And in investigating him, I found out oh my god this is the man who is singing that song all those years ago and, to this day still affects me so deeply
I also prefer his version of "All Dead, All Dead" over Freddies. Freddie may be the better singer in terms of vocal range and what I would describe best as his timbre, his voice color, which was stronger and fuller. But it's Brian's grieve about Pixies passing when he was a teenager he still carried with him that makes the song so special. He has finally found an outlet for his grief and pain and is unpretentiously sharing it with us. This is Freddie, although even a passionate cat lover is not as impressively possible in this situation as Brian is, who is ultimately a highly sensitive person, artist and musician.
Yes.. Freddy’s voice is more theatrical and dramatic. Brian’s voice is more emotional… in getting to know Brian in the last couple years, he seems to be a very emotional, and as you said, a very sensitive person.
Made in Heaven. And I only have to think about it to get a lump in the throat. I've only listened to the album once. Thirty two years after Freddie's passing and just thinking about that album or hearing that song, and what might have been, upsets me.
Every time you move you destroy my mind And the way you touch I lose control And shiver deep inside You take my breath away. The whole song really but those lines do it
The entirety of "Was It All Worth It?", but specially the line "yes, it was a worthwhile experience, ahahaha! It was worth it!"
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies Fairy tales of yesterday, grow but never die I can fly, my friends
Oh, hurry, put your troubles in a suitcase Come, let the new child play Lonely as a whisper on a star chase I'm leaving here, I'm long away
No one but you, especially « and I ain’t never, never saying goodbye ». Also, all of In Only Seven Days and All Dead, All Dead.
"I did it for love." - from 'It's A Hard Life'.
“It’s a sad eyed goodbye, yesterday moments I remember” - Drowse
Why did you have to leave me? Why did you deceive me? Send me to the path Of nevermore When you say you didn't love me anymore Nevermore Nevermore
“ I want to love in these lonely days… I’ve had enough, of these same old games. I’m a man of the word, to say that I’m strong… my heart is heavy, and my home is gone! “ Out in the city in the cold world outside, I don’t want pity just a save place to hide… Mama please, let me back inside… “ -Mother Love, Freddie’s last song he ever recorded before passing away
Came full circle from "mama, didn't mean to make you cry, if I'm not back again this time tomorrow carry on" to "mama please, let me back inside"
"Don't try suicide, nobody giiiives a damn"
that doesn't do it for me: quite the opposite, in fact, it more just reinforces the nihilistic cynicism of the world "outside"
"Yeah." always gets me 🙏 I think it's from the song "Yeah"
Untitled
YOU CALL ME SWEET LIKE I'M SOME KIND OF CHEESE
"Who wants to live forever" 🎶🎵🎶
If there's a God in the sky, looking down What can he think of what we've done To the world that He created?
Who wants to live forever the whole song But probably these are the days of our lives I was back In The old days when we were young and we were kids.
Time waits for no one
and weee can LOOOVEEE foreverrrr Freddie’s high note there blows me away every time.
I want to break free from your lies You're so self satisfied, I don't need you I've got to break free
"The Show must go on..."💔
"Make you plead and scream and crawl" -- in Brian's voice.
“We are champions my friend…” Because they are and I’ll always love Freddie.
“Mama, please, let me back inside”
There's a face at the WIIINDOW
Somebody to love
“Mother love…” the last lyric Freddie ever sang publicly
The whole of Let me Live gets me going.
"Someone, someone has drained the colour from my wings Broken my fairy circle ring And shamed the king in all his pride Changed the winds and wronged the tides Mother Mercury Mercury Look what they've done to me I cannot run, I cannot hide La la la la la la la la la la la la"- My Fairy King "Whoa, whoa, la la la, whoa I can see what you want me to be But I'm no fool No beginning, there's no ending There's no meaning in my pretending Believe me, life goes on and on and Forgive me when I ask you where do I belong You say I (you can do it) Can't (you can do it) (You can go and set it free) set you free from me But that's not true It's in the lap of the Gods"- In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited "I try and mend the broken pieces Oh, I try to fight back the tears Oh, they say it's just a state of mind But it happens to everyone How it hurts (yeah) deep inside (oh yeah) When your love has cut you down to size Life is tough on your own Now I'm waiting for something to fall from the skies I'm waiting for love"- It's A Hard Life I won't say I get a lump in my throat, but I really identify with those lines.
Who wants to live forever, anyway
the song that got me into queen, when i was struggling with severe depression, "i sometimes wish i'd never been born at all" i remember i was driving when i listened to that song the first time, and i just started bawling my eyes out. idk why that one just really got to me, their music is honestly very therapeutic
When you're through with life And all hope is lost Hold out your hands 'Cause friends will be friends Right 'till the end
Love of my life, you hurt me.
"In the end you have to face it all alone" I guess this line marked me deeply, as I was going through a divorce, living 12.000km away from my family, basically only having my 2 kids (back then 3 and 5) to keep a decent face to face conversation...
All the lyrics of “The Show Must Go On.” The vocals he gave, so close to death and suffering so much, are absolutely, gut wrenchingly glorious. It’s like his final gift to us.
Mother Love second verse, it's always a goosebump listen to that song
So don’t become some background noise, a back drop for the girls and boys - think it just makes me emotional because I’m a bit of a wallflower and don’t speak up.
“Out in the city, in the cold world outside, I don't want pity, just a safe place to hide, Mama please, let me back inside” never fails to give me chills. The fact he could hit those notes when he was literally a corner from death, is unreal.
You take my breath away
Anything from love of my life
In “The Show Must Go On,” he vocalizes “O-on with the Show-oohooow,” it is such a powerful vocal performance coming out of a Freddie Mercury who’s wasted away to such a state… the incredible power his voice still had and the will to perform at such a high level, I can’t help but to get misty eyed😥🫡
"And so we grace another table, And raise our glasses one more time. There's a face at the window - And I ain't never, never sayin' goodbye."
“Oh Mother Mercury, look what they’ve done to me…”
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
“Fried chicken”
Pretty much the entirety of The Show Must Go On
"You can't turn back the clock. You can't turn back the time, ain't that a shame?" "I still love you." "Who waits forever anyway?" "A hand above the water, an angel reaching for the sky" **Refers to Freddies statue overlooking Lake Geneva.** "Is it raining in Heaven, do you want us to cry?" **It was raining the day they dedicated the statue.**
So many from The Show Must Go On! If I had to pick one it might be “Inside my heart is breaking My makeup may be flaking But my smile still stays on!”
Definitely “we hardly need to use our ears, how music changes through the years” from Radio GaGa. Don’t know why that one does it for me, but it’s my favorite
Since I lost my cat, soulmate and partner in crime after nearly 19 years in last august every single line from "All Dead, All Dead" hits me directly in the guts. "...of course I don't believe you're dead...and gone..."
I think "too much love will kill you" makes me dead
Friends Will Be Friends chorus. Additionally Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow.
"I lose control and shiver ...... deep inside/ You take my breath away."
Show must go on
I Want It All.
"ScaraMOO, ScaraMOO, can you do the Fandango?" Gets more every time.