The Freddie Mercury Album (known as "The Great Pretender" in the US)

Thanks to Andy Young for the lyrics

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The Great Pretender



Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Pretending I'm doing well (ooh ooh)

My need is such I pretend too much

I'm lonely but no one can tell



Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)

I play the game but to my real shame

You've left me to dream all alone



Too real is this feeling of make believe

Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal



Ooh Ooh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)

I seem to be what I'm not (you see)

I'm wearing my heart like a crown

Pretending that you're still around



Yeah ooh hoo

Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal



Oh yes I'm the great pretender

Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)

I seem to be what I'm not you see

I'm wearing my heart like a crown

Pretending that you're

Pretending that you're still around





Foolin' Around

Words and music by Freddie Mercury



You're so beautiful you just lay it on me

Foxy lady you really are the greatest show in town

You want to play

You wanna eat your cake and have it your way

You got it easy and you don't give a damn

Foolin' around you just keep foolin' around with me



Walking down the street people watching closely

Such a tease you can turn on any man you want

You masquerade

You're the catch of the season every night and day

You you you don't have any time for me

You just keep foolin' around with me



Fooling around - everywhere I go you're the only only only sexy lady

Fooling around all you do is keep me hanging around

You're really so hard to please

You've gotta really watch that baby!



You just you just fooling around with me

You just you just fooling around with me

You keep fooling you keep fooling

Fooling...

Want to play but you always want it all your own way

You got it easy but you don't give a damn

Fooling around you just keep fooling around with me

Just keep fooling around with me yeah



I'm a fool fool fool fool for you baby keep fooling around

I'm a fool fool fool for you sexy babe keep fooling around

I'm a fool fool fool fool for you baby keep fooling around





Time

Words and music by Dave Clark and John Christie



Time waits for nobody



Time waits for nobody

We all must plan our hopes together

Or we'll have no more future at all

Time waits for nobody



We might as well be deaf and dumb and blind

I know that sounds unkind

But it seems to me we've not listened to

Or spoken about it at all

The fact that time is running out for us all



Time waits for nobody

Time waits for no-one

We've got to build this world together

Or we'll have no more future at all

Because time - it waits for nobody



You don't need me to tell you what's gone wrong (gone wrong gone wrong)

You know what's going on

But it seems to me we've not cared enough

Or confided in each other at all (confided in each other at all)

It seems that we've all got our backs against the wall



(Time) Time waits for nobody

(Time) waits for no-one

We've got to trust in one another

Or there'll be no more future at all

(Time)



Yeah - Time waits for nobody

No no - Time don't wait for no-one

Let's learn to be friends with one another

Or there'll be no more future at all



Time (time) time (time) waits for nobody waits for nobody

Time time time time waits for nobody at all



Time waits for nobody - yeah

Time don't wait - waits for no-one

Let us free this world for ever

And build a brand new future for us all



Time waits for nobody nobody nobody

For no-one





Your Kind Of Lover

Words and music by Freddie Mercury



Now you say you're leaving me

I just can't believe it's true

You're my kind of lover

Wanna little bit of feeling

Add a little bit of meaning to my life

Wanna little bit of feeling

A little bit of sunshine to my life



I wanna be your kind of lover

Give a little bit of feeling

Just a little bit of feeling

Add a little bit of meaning to my life



I wanna boogie down with you brother

Boogie down with the bassman

Win love on the grandslam

I'll be there waiting when you call



Just step right into my heart

Come a little closer

Don't tell me that it's over

Make a brand new start

We can work it out just next to nothing

Work it out work it out just next to nothing

With feeling feeling feeling with feeling



We can work it out

Let me show you what I can do I can be your kind of lover

We can work it out

Let me show you what I can do I can be your kind of lover



I wanna be your kind of mother

Let's talk about loving right

Don't talk about doing wrong

Put a little bit of sense into your mind

We gotta talk it out man to man

Make each other understand

Right now a little happiness would be fine



Just step right into my heart

Come a little closer

Don't tell me that it's over

Make a brand new start

We can work it out just next to nothing

Work it out work it out just next to nothing

With feeling feeling feeling with feeling



We can work it out

Let me show you what I can do I can be your kind of lover

We can work it out

Let me show you what I can do I can be your kind of lover





Exercises In Free Love

(Instrumental)





In My Defence

Words and music by Dave Clark,John Soames and Jeff Daniels



In my defence what is there to say

All the mistakes we made must be faced today

It's not easy now knowing where to start

While the world we love tears itself apart



I'm just a singer with a song

How can I try to right the wrong

For just a singer with a melody

I'm caught in between

With a fading dream



In my defence what is there to say

We destroy the love - it's our way

We never listen enough never face the truth

Then like a passing song

Love is here and then it's gone



I'm just a singer with a song

How can I try to right the wrong

For just a singer with a melody

I'm caught in between

With a fading dream



I'm just a singer with a song

How can I try to right the wrong

I'm just a singer with a melody

I'm caught in between with a fading dream

Caught in between with a fading dream

Caught in between with a fading dream



Oh what on earth

Oh what on earth

How do I try

Do we live or die



Oh help me God

Please help me





Mr Bad Guy

Words and music by Freddie Mercury



Let's go chasing rainbows in the sky

It's my invitation

Let's all take a trip on my ecstasy



I'm Mr Bad Guy

Yes I'm everybody's Mr Bad Guy

Can't you see I'm Mr Mercury

Oh spread your wings and fly away with me



Your big daddy's got no place to stay

Bad communication

I feel like the president of the USA



I'm Mr Bad Guy

Yes I'm everybody's Mr Bad Guy

Can't you see I'm Mr Mercury

Oh spread your wings and fly away with me



I'm Mr Bad Guy

They're all afraid of me

I can ruin peoples lives

Mr Bad Guy they're all afraid of me

It's the only way to be

That's my destiny

Mr Bad Guy Mr Bad Guy bad guy



It's the only way for me

It's my destiny



I'm Mr Bad Guy

Yes I'm everybody's Mr Bad Guy

Can't you see it is my destiny

Oh spread your wings and fly away with me





Let's Turn It On

Words and music by Freddie Mercury



Let's turn it on and get everybody thinking

Thinking thinking

Let's turn it on everybody song and dancing

Dancing dancing

Let's turn it on all the people got to get the right impression

Turn it on turn it on turn it on

Why don't we turn it on and let's stop everybody fighting



Let's get it on let's get everybody jumping

Let's get it on and get everybody stomping

Let's get it on all the people got to get the right impression

Let's get it on turn it on and let's get everybody dancing



Let's turn it on yeah

Nobody is giving it up yeah yeah

Everybody is living it up yeah

Everybody is living it up living it up

Let's turn it on yeah

Nobody is giving it up everybody is living it up yeah

Everybody is living it up let's turn it on turn it on yeah

Dancing dancing dancing dancing



Let's turn it on and get everybody swinging

Let's turn it on get right into that lovely feeling

Let's turn it on come on all you people get together

Turn it on turn it on and let's get everybody dancing



Turn it on and get everybody happy

Let's turn it on let's make everybody happy

Let's turn it on come on all you happy people together

Turn it on yeah turn it on

Let's make everybody crazy





Living On My Own

Words and music by Freddie Mercury



Sometimes I feel I'm gonna break down and cry (so lonely)

Nowhere to go nothing to do with my time

I get lonely so lonely living on my own



Sometimes I feel I'm always walking too fast

And everything is coming down on me down on me

I go crazy oh so crazy living on my own



Dee do de de dee do de de

I don't have no time for no monkey business

Dee do de de dee do de de

I get so lonely lonely lonely lonely yeah

Got to be some good times ahead



Sometimes I feel nobody gives me no warning

Find my head is always up in the clouds in a dreamworld

It's not easy living on my own



Dee do de de dee do de de

I don't have no time for no monkey business

Dee do de de dee do de de

I get so lonely lonely lonely lonely yeah

Got to be some good times ahead



Dee do de de dee do de de

I don't have no time for no monkey business

Dee do de de dee do de de

I get so lonely lonely lonely lonely yeah

Got to be some good times ahead





Love Kills

Words and music by Freddie Mercury and Georgio Moroder



Love don't give no compensation

Love don't pay no bills

Love don't give no indication

Love just won't stand still



Love kills - drills you through your heart

Love kills - scars you from the start

It's just a living pastime

Ruining your heartline

Stays for a lifetime won't let you go

Cause love (love) love (love) love won't leave you alone



Love won't take no reservations

Love is no square deal

Hey love don't give no justification

It strikes like cold steel



Love kills - drills you through your heart

Love kills - scars you from the start

It's just a living pastime

Burning your lifeline

Gives you as hard time won't let you go

Cause love (love) love (love) love won't leave you alone



Hey love can play with your emotions

Open invitation to your heart

Hey love kills

Play with your emotions

Open invitation to your heart to your heart

Love kills love kills

Hey hey



Love kills (love kills)

Love kills (kills kills kills)



Love can play with your emotions

Open invitation



Love kills - hey - drills you through your heart

Love kills - scars you from the start

It's just a living pastime

Ruining your heartline

Won't let you go



Love kills - hey - drills you through your heart

Love kills - tears you right apart

It won't let go it won't let go



Love kills - yeah





Barcelona

Words and music by Freddie Mercury and Mike Moran



Barcelona Barcelona

Barcelona Barcelona

Viva



I had this perfect dream

-Un sueno me envolvio

This dream was me and you

-Tal vez estas aqui

I want all the world to see

-Un instinto me guiaba

A miracle sensation

My guide and inspiration

Now my dream is slowly coming true



The wind is a gentle breeze

-El me hablo de ti

The bells are ringing out

-El canto vuela

They're calling us together

Guiding us forever

Wish my dream would never go away



Barcelona - It was the first time that we met

Barcelona - How can I forget

The moment that you stepped into the room you took my breath away

Barcelona - La musica vibros

Barcelona - Y ella nos unio

And if God willing we will meet again someday



Let the songs begin

-Dejalo nacer

Let the music play

-Ahhhhhhhh...

Make the voices sing

-Nace un gran amor

Start the celebration

-Van a mi

And cry

-Grita

Come alive

-Vive

And shake the foundations from the skies

Ah,Ah,Shaking all our lives



Barcelona - Such a beautiful horizon

Barcelona - Like a jewel in the sun

Por ti sere gaviota de tu bella mar

Barcelona - Suenan las campamas

Barcelona - Abre tus puertas al mundo

If God is willing

-If God is willing

If God is willing

Friends until the end

Viva - Barcelona





The Hollywood release of "The Great Pretender" has "My Love Is Dangerous" instead of "Barcelona"



My Love Is Dangerous

Words and music by Freddie Mercury



My love is dangerous dangerous my love is dangerous

Always makes you bleed always makes you bleed

Always makes you bleed love is dangerous



Don't follow in my footsteps you don't belong to me

You only make a mistake don't try and understand me

Don't try and understand me all I'm trying to say



My love is dangerous dangerous love is dangerous

Make everybody cry everybody cry

Everybody cry love is dangerous



Don't waste your time with loving love don't work for me

Don't try to show your feelings step carefully

Step carefully all I'm trying to say



My love is dangerous because I'm your enemy

Watch your step carefully

Cause I know I know I know I know I know me

Dangerous no can give no guarantee I'm your one day ecstasy

Next day no



Dangerous ooo dangerous love is dangerous

Love is dangerous yeah

All I'm really trying to say to you love is dangerous



No go play fire with me fire dance for me

You no can take a pisstake

Don't go criticize me no go analyze me

All I'm trying to say



My love is dangerous because I'm your enemy

Watch your step carefully

Cause I know I know I know I know I know me

Dangerous no can give no guarantee I'm your one day ecstasy

Next day no



Dangerous dangerous my love is dangerous

Always makes you bleed

Always makes you bleed

Always makes you bleed

Love is dangerous...


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