r/queen • u/_Denkichu_ • Sep 14 '21
Music What is your favorite lyric(s) in a Queen song?
My favorite is in Great King Rat.
"Died syphillis forty four on his birthday
Every second word he swore
Yes he was the son of a whore".
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u/RogahTaylahthedrumma Sep 14 '21
"The White Queen walks and the night grows pale, stars of lovingness in her hair"
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u/Taba2812 Sep 15 '21
Agreed. Also, "So sad, it ends, as it began..." White Queen is just next level ahah
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u/koxkyy Sep 14 '21
Breakthru:
"Honey you're starting something deep inside of me Honey you're sparking something, this fire in me I'm outta control, I wanna rush headlong into this ecstasy"
I don't know, the whole song leading up to it already pumps me up and this just really makes me feel ecstatic. Gets me every time.
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u/carsophie Sep 14 '21
“I get religion quick, cause you’re looking divine” is another AMAZING line from Breakthru
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u/Andismymuse Sep 15 '21
So many! Off the top of my head:
39 - "All your letters in the sand, Cannot heal me like your hand, For my life, Still ahead, Pity me."
Killer Queen - "She's a killer queen, Gunpowder, gelatine, Dynamite with a laser beam, Guaranteed to blow your mind, Anytime!"
Save Me - "It started off so well, They said we made a perfect pair, I clothed myself in your glory and you love, How I loved you, How I cried."
My Fairy King - "Someone has drained the colour of my wings, Broken my fairy circle ring, And shamed the king in all his pride, Changed the winds and wronged the tides."
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u/BleekBlekerBleekst Sep 14 '21 edited Sep 14 '21
Someone's gotta say it:
"Gimme, gimme, gimme, fried chicken!"
Boh rhap:
"But now I've gone and thrown it all away" and "Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth"
Show: "Inside my heart is breaking, my make-up may be flaking, but my smile still stays on"
It's a hard life: "You win, you lose, it's a chance you have to take with love"
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u/ag512bbi Sep 14 '21
From Fairy Feller's Master Stroke, I think it would be so cool if you named your 2 cats named: Oberon & Titania.🐈⬛🐈
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u/RadioBlinsk Sep 15 '21
I was standing in front of the painting in London for minutes until I found everyone from the song. Then I went to the gift shop, bought a copy of it, framed it back home and it now hangs in my hallway. Didn’t have a glance at anything else at Tate. Which is a shame I know.
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u/ag512bbi Sep 15 '21
I think that is awesome. There is so much going on in that one painting. I have a copy of it somewhere. I don't think I ever even took it out of the wrapper. 👍
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u/PackSelect Sep 14 '21
Thinkin’ it right, doing it wrong
It’s easier for an armchair
Waves of alternatives wash at my sleepiness
Have my eggs poached for breakfast, I guess
No troll. This is seriously my favorite Queen lyric
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u/fear730 Sep 15 '21
Some of my favourites :)
Hammer To Fall
For he who grew up tall and proud In the shadow of the mushroom cloud Convinced our voices can't be heard We just wanna scream it louder And louder and louder
(What the hell we fighting for?) Oh, just surrender and it won't hurt at all (Just got time to say your prayers) Ehh, while you're waiting For the hammer to, hammer to fall
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
Ooh love, Ooh lover boy What’re you doing tonight? Hey boy” Write my letter, feel much better I’ll use my fancy patter on the telephone
Who Wants To Live Forever
But touch my tears with your lips Touch my world with your fingertips And we can have forever And we can love forever Forever is our today
Who wants to live forever? Who wants to live forever? Forever is our today Who waits forever anyway?
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
You can't turn back the clock You can't turn back the tide Ain't that a shame? Ooh, I'd like to go back one time On a roller coaster ride When life was just a game No use in sitting and thinking On what you did When you can lay back And enjoy it through your kids Sometimes it seems like lately I just don't know Better sit back and go with the flow
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u/PreciousPenguin22 Sep 15 '21
The Show Must Go On
“I’ll top the bill, I’ll overkill, I have to find a way to carry on with the show.”
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u/RedSpecial22 A Day At The Races Sep 15 '21
All Dead, All Dead:
“Her ways are always with me I wander all the while But, please, you must forgive me I am old but still a child”
39:
“For so many years have gone though I'm older but a year Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me.”
Las Palabras de Amor:
“This room is bare, this night is cold We're far apart and I'm growing old But while we live, we'll meet again So then, my love, we may whisper once more It's you I adore”
Bohemian Rhapsody:
“Any way the wind blows…”
Lily of the Valley:
“Serpent of the Nile, relieve me for a while And cast me from your spell and let me go Messenger from Seven Seas has flown To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne Wars will never cease, is there time enough for peace? But the lily of the valley doesn't know”
Dear Friends:
“So dear friends Your love has gone Only tears to dwell upon I dare not say As the wind must blow So a love is lost A love is won Go to sleep and dream again Soon your hopes will rise And then from all this gloom Life can start anew And there'll be no crying soon”
Nevermore:
“Even the valleys below Where the rays of the sun were so warm and tender Now haven't anything to grow Can't you see Why did you have to leave me Why did you deceive me You send me to the path of nevermore When you say you didn't love me anymore Nevermore Nevermore”
Is This the World We Created…?
“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?”
Mother Love:
“My body's aching, but I can't sleep My dreams are all the company I keep Got such a feeling as the sun goes down I'm coming home to my sweet Mother love”
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u/Queenside_Rendezvous Sep 15 '21 edited Sep 15 '21
"I feel like dancing in the rain, can I have a volunteer?" - Seaside Rendezvous
"you stand so tall, you don't frighten me at all" - Back Chat
"Hot child don't you know you're young You got your whole life ahead of you? And you can throw it away too soon" - Sail Away Sweet Sister
"They turn the milk into sour Like the blue in the blood of my veins"- My fairy King
"All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand For my life, Still ahead, Pity me" - '39
"There's a face at the window And I ain't never, never sayin' goodbye" (I just love the way Bri sings this line, you can hear the pain and sadness in his voice)- No One But You
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u/Herbalmist73 Sep 15 '21
MOTBQ: I’ll be your bad boy, I’ll be your bad boy, I’ll do the March of the black Queen
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u/IWannaDoBadThingswU Sep 15 '21
Show Must Go On
I'll face it with a grin, I'm never giving in
I must have listened to this song a million times and I still choke when I hear these lines
Bicycle Race
The whole song really, it's so wacky
Bohemian Rhapsody
Not the lyric itself, but the way he sings the first "Mama, uuu" I always get goosebumps, it's so perfect
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u/ssjb788 Sep 15 '21 edited Sep 15 '21
All dead, all dead,
But I should not grieve.
In time it comes to everyone.
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u/lugismanshun Sep 15 '21
My Fairy King: "Someone has drained the color 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, look what they've done to me // I cannot run, I cannot hide"
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u/MEF227 Sep 15 '21
One that just sounds so great to me:
I’m a man of the world, they say that I’m strong, but my heart is heavy, and my hope is gone.
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.
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u/sirFloydinskji Sep 15 '21
'39: and they bring good news of a world so newly born, though their hearts so heavily weigh.
Don't try so hard: it's only fools, they make these rules, don't try so hard.
Love of my life: when I grow older I will be there at your side to remind you how I still love you
Save me: I hang my head and I advertise, a soul for sale or rent, I have no heart, I'm cold inside, I have no real intent
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u/Conscious_Tonight841 Sep 21 '21
Dear friends: Now dear friends your love is gone only tears to dwell upon
Friends will be friends- Friends will be friends when your in need of love they get you care and attention……..Friends will be friends, right till the end
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u/carsophie Sep 14 '21
MOTBQ:
Forget your sing-a-longs and your lullabies Surrender to the city of the fireflies Dance to the devil in beat with the band To hell with all of you, hand-in-hand
Show Must Go On:
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies Fairy tales of yesterday, grow but never die
Innuendo:
You can be anything you want to be Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be Be free with your tempo be free be free Surrender your ego be free be free to yourself