A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
1.Death On Two Legs
2.Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
3.I'm In Love With My Car
4.You're My Best Friend
5.'39
6.Sweet Lady
7.Seaside Rendezvous
8.The Prophet's Song
9.Love Of My Life
10.Good Company
11.Bohemian Rhapsody
12.God Save The Queen (instrumental)
DEATH ON TWO LEGS (Dedicated to ...
(Mercury)
You suck my blood like a leech
You break the law and you breach
Screw my brain till it hurts
You've taken all my money - you still want more
Misguided old mule
With your pigheaded rules
With your narrow-minded cronies
who are fools of the first division
Death on two legs -
You're tearing me apart,
Death on two legs -
You never had a heart of your own
Kill joy, Bad guy,
Big talking, Small fry
You're just an old barrow-boy
Have you found a new toy to replace me,
Can you face me
But now you can kiss my ass goodbye
Feel good, are you satisfied
Do you feel like suicide
(I think you should)
Is your conscience all right
Does it plague you at night
Do you feel good - Feel good!
Talk like a big business tycoon,
But you're just a hot-air balloon,
So no one gives you a damn
You're just an overgrown school-boy
Let me tan your hide.
A dog with desease,
King of the 'sleaze'
Put your money where your mouth is
Mr. Know All,
Was the fin on your back part of the deal...(shark!)
Death on two legs -
You're tearing me apart,
Death on two legs -
You never had a heart of your own
(You never did, right from the start)
Insane, you should be put inside,
You're a sewer-rat decaying in a cesspool of pride
Should be made unemployed
Then make yourself null-and-void,
Make me feel good
I feel good
LAZING ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON
(Mercury)
I go out to work Monday morning
Tuesday I go off to honeymoon
I'll be back again before
it's time for sonny-down,
I'll be lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
Bicicling on every Wednesday evening
Thursday I go waltzing to the Zoo
I come from London town,
I'm just an ordinary guy,
Fridays I go painting in the Louvre
I'm bound to be proposing
on a Saturday night
(There he goes again)
I'll be lazing on a Sunday
lazing on a Sunday
lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
I'M IN LOVE WITH MY CAR
(Taylor)
(Dedicated to Johnathan Harris, boy racer to the end)
The machine of a dream
Such a clean machine
With the pistons a pumpin'
And the hubcaps all gleam
When I'm holding your wheel,
All I hear is your gear,
When my hand's on your grease gun
Oh it's like a desease son
I'm in love with my car -
Gotta feel for my automobile
Get a grip on my boy racer rollbar
Such a thrill when your radials squeal
Told my girl I just had to forget her,
Rather buy me a new carburettor
So she made tracks
Sayin' this is the end now
Cars don't talk back
They're just four wheeled friends now
When I'm holding your wheel,
All I hear is your gear
When I'm cruisin' in overdrive,
Don't have to listen to no run off the mill talk jive
I'm in love with my car -
Sotta feel for my automobile,
I'm in love with my car -
String back gloves in my automolove!
Vocal - Roger Taylor
YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND
(Deacon)
Ooo, you make me live
Whatever this world can give to me
It's you, you're all I see
Ooo, you make me live now honey
Ooo, you make me live
You're the best friend
That I ever had
I've been with you such a long time
You're my sunshine
And I want you to know
That my feelings are true
I really love you
You're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
I've been wandering round
But I still come back to you
In rain or shine
You've stood by me girl
I'm happy, happy at home
You're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I got you, to help me forgive
Ooo, you make me live now honey
Ooo, you make me live
You're the first one
When things turn out bad
You know I'll never be lonely
You're my only one
And I love
The things that you do
You're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
I'm happy, happy at home
You're my best friend
You're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
You, you're my best friend
'39
(May)
In the year of '39
Assembled here the Volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out
Into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen.
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day
Sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back, never feared,
never cried
Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew
In the year of '39
Came a ship in from the blue
The Volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news
Of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey,
To a new home we'll away
But my love this cannot be
For so many years have gone
Though I'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes in your eyes
Cry to me
Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All the letters in the sand
Cannot heal me like your hand
For my life
Still ahead
Pity Me
Vocal - Brian May
SWEET LADY
(May)
You call me up and treat me like a dog
You call me up and tear me up inside
You've got me on a lead
You bring me down
You shout around
You don't believe that I'm alone.
Sweet Lady
Sweet Lady
Sweet Lady... Stay sweet
You say
"You call me up and feed me all the lines
You call me sweet like I'm some kind of cheese
Waiting on the shelf
You eat me up
You hold me down
I'm just a fool to make you a home"
And you say
"Sweet Lady
Sweet Lady
Sweet Lady... Stay sweet"
My Sweet lady
Though it seems like we wait forever
Stay sweet baby
Believe and we've got everything we need
SEASIDE RENDEZVOUS
(Mercury)
Seaside - whenever you stroll along with me
I'm merely contemplating what you feel inside
Meanwhile I ask you to be my Clementine
You say you'd have to tell your daddy if you can
I love you madly
Let my imagination run away with you gladly
A brand new angle - highly commendable -
Seaside Rendezvous
I feel so romantic - can we do it again
Can we do it again sometime
Fantastic, c'est la vie, mesdames et messiers
And at the peak of the season, the Mediterranean
This time of year, it's so fashionable
I feel like dancing in the rain,
All I need is a volunteer
Dancing - what a damn jolly good idea
It's such a jollification - as a matter of fact,
c'est tres charmant, my dear
Underneath the moonlight
Together we'll sail across the sea
Reminiscing every night
Meantime - I ask you to be my valentine
You say you do if you did but you daren't
I'll be your Valentino
We'll ride upon an omnibus and then the casino
Get a new facial - sensational -
Seaside Rendezvous - so adorable,
Seaside Rendezvous - ooh
Seaside Rendezvous - give me the kiss!
THE PROPHET'S SONG
(May)
Oh Oh people of the earth
Listen to the warning
The seer he said
Beware the storm that gathers here
Listen to the wise man.
I dreamed I saw on a moonlit stair
Spreading his hands on the multitude there
A man who cried for a love gone stale
And ice cold hearts of charity bare.
I watched as fear took the old men's gaze
Hopes of the young in troubled graves
I see no day, I heard him say
So grey is the face of every mortal.
Oh Oh people of the earth
Listen to the warning
The prophet he said
For soon the cold of night with fall
Summoned by your own hand.
Oh Oh children of the land
Quicken to the new life
Take my hand
Fly and find the new green bough
Return like the white dove.
He told of death as a bone white haze
Taking the lost and unloved babe
Late too late all the wretches run
This kings of beasts now counting their days.
From mother's love is the son estranged
Married his own his precious gain
The earth will shake in two will break
And death all around will be your dow'ry
Oh Oh people of the earth
Listen to the warning the seer he said
For those who hear and mark my words
Listen to the good plan.
Oh Oh - and two by two my human zoo
They'll be
running for to come
running for to come
out of the rain
Flee for your life
Who heed me not, let all your treasures make you fear for your life
Deceive you not - the fires of hell will take you
Should death await you
God give you grace to purge this place
And peace all around may be your fortune
Oh Oh children of the land
Love is still the answer, take my hand
The vision fades, a voice I hear
"Listen to the Madman!"
But still I fear and still dare not
Laugh at the Madman
LOVE OF MY LIFE
(Mercury)
Love of my life - you've hurt me,
You've broken my heart,
And now you leave me
Love of my life can't you see
Bring it back, bring it back,
Don't take it away from me
Because you don't know
What it means to me
Love of my life don't leave me,
You've taken my love,
You now desert me
Love of my life can't you see
Bring it back, bring it back,
Don't take it away from me
Because you don't know
What it means to me
You won't remember -
When this is blown over
And everything's all by the way
When I grow older
I will be there
at your side to remind you
how I still love you
I still love you
Back, hurry back,
Please bring it back home to me
Because you don't know
What it means to me
Love of my life
Love of my life...
GOOD COMPANY
(May)
Take good care of what you've got
My father said to me
As he puffed his pipe and Baby B.
He dandled on his knee
Don't fool with fools who'll turn away
Keep all Good Company
Oo Hoo Oo Hoo
Take care of those you call your own
And keep Good Company
Soon I grew and happy too
My very good friends and me
We'd play all day with Sally J.
The girl from number four
Very soon I begged her won't you
Keep me Company
Oo Hoo Oo Hoo
Come marry me for evermore we'll
Be Good Company.
Now marriage is an institution sure
My wife and I our needs and nothing more
All my friends by a year
By and by disappeared
But we're safe enough behind our door.
I flourished in my humble trade
My reputation grew
The work devoured my waking hours
But when my time was through
Reward for all my efforts my own
Limited Company
I hardly noticed Sally as we
Parted Company
All through the years in the end it appears
There was never really anyone but me
Now I'm old I puff my pipe
But no one's there to see
I ponder on the lesson of
My life's insanity
Take care of those you call your own
And Keep Good Company
Vocals - Brian May
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
(Mercury)
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 sea
I'm just a poor boy,
I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway 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, oooh,
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, oooh
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouch, scaramouch, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo
Gallileo figaro - Magnifico
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from his 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 him go
Will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Mama mia, mama mia, mama 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 eyes
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
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me
Anyway the wind blows...
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
(Arranged by May)
/Instrumenatal/
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