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You'd
be forgiven if you think you're dreaming
WE WILL ROCK YOU by Brian May (1977) Buddy
you're a boy make a big noise Wavin' your banner all over the place
Lullaby got loud As sung by the crowd Through a life I sped On my Special Red © 2004 NOW-IM-HERE.COM
'Three ages of man. Two minutes'. Brian May, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio, 15 Sep 02
by Brian May (Scene 1) You say you lovE me AND I hardly know your name AND If i say i love you in the candlelight there's no-one but myself to blame
But there's something inside
and
I'm bleeding deep inside
though I'm crying I can't help but hear you say
It's
late - It's late - It's late But
not too late (Scene 2)
the way you lovE me is
the
sweetest love
around but after all this time the
more i'm
trying
and
it's driving me so mad
yes I know, but don't try and tell me that it's
save
our love you can't
turn out the light
-
I've
been so long (Scene 3)
You
say what game are you playing? What's
this that you're saying? I know that I can't reply
If I take you tonight Is
it making my life a lie? ????????????????? ??????????????? Oh you make me wonder Did I live my life right?
Yes I know, but there's no way it has to be
so let the fire take our bodies this night
let the waters take our guilt in the tide
Save Me, 1980
My
Crown Bijou Hearing
the call many years away From
a royal rooftop I was summoned A
Sweet Sister who had sailed away; Though
for Song ’39 I had volunteered; A
raw recruit professing to the Opera Those
dreams
of youth then They’re
these same dreams now fulfilled.
Play
out my pain on your silken strings Sing
out my story in plain prophesy; The
world stage sees the Phoenix rising I
too,
dry-lipped from a
'bad
place' at last Speaking for our eternal destiny at one.
© 2004 NOW-IM-HERE.COM
‘39, Sail Away Sweet Sister, I Want It All, The White Queen (As It Began),
Breakthru, 1989
I
Can't Live With You Bijou
I'm Going Slightly Mad, 1991
Inside my heart is breaking My make-up may be fading But my smile still stays on...
..I'll top the bill, I'll overkill I have to find the will to carry on On with the show..
Innuendo, 1991 Queen (The Show Must Go On)**
**Lyrics mainly attributed to Brian
Click here to read: WE WILL ROCK YOU, THE MUSICAL, A GREAT SHOW!
*See my story
How I achieved 'fame at last'!!!:
www.brianmay.com/brian/letters/lettersjan05.html#09
www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbjan05.html#15
Pictures almost entirely from www.queenzone.com The above picture: AP
Since early 2005, I have been translating a number of items from German into English for Brian's official website. The above picture was sent to me by e-mail during the Queen and Paul Rodgers European tour later that year, with a note from Brian saying he loved it. In December 2006, I finally got to meet Brian - twice. The first time was at the Zurich premiere of the musical and I believe he had not realised who I was. I made it clear we had never met, yet he proceeded to volunteer a piece of information, full of meaning, looking straight into my eyes as he did so, so intensely that I had the feeling he was intending to land a space probe on the surface of my soul. What he said, and the way he said it, convinced me more than ever of the common ground between us; the untold pain we had both suffered through the early loss of someone whom we loved and was irreplaceable, and the mission to keep that person's spirit alive. In the book 'Bang! The Complete History of the Universe', which Brian co-wrote with two other astronomers, a lot is written about time in the context of the universe. I've been interested in seeing how these universal truths may relate to our everyday experiences, and think that maybe, emotionally, some events, like that meeting, happen outside time because there is no explaining them. Then again, I suppose that an encounter with Brian was never going to yield a chat about the weather! The words he spoke were uncannily relevant, and, after all, this story has been all about words - Freddie's words in 'Bohemian Rhapsody', Brian's in 'Some Day, One Day' and 'The Prophet's Song', to cite just three examples, as well as all of my words - everything I've written as well as the words I have offered in the translations - and here a few more from Brian as well: Write your letters in the sand For the day I take your hand In the land that our grandchildren knew Brian May, ''39' "You get around, don't you?" commented Brian the second time we met - the same week, he was back in London signing copies of the 'Bang!' book, and I went along - this time I managed to talk with him about the Zurich premiere and to tell him that I was his website's translator of all things Teutonic! "Oh that's you!", he replied, and seemed really pleased to meet me and made me feel that it was I who was the star! Afterwards I thought about his words, "get around" - hmm...we were in the City of London - within the Roman one square mile where I had been to school. I don't want to dwell on another geographical connection with the past, but just to mention it in the context of 'Bang!''s study of the universe, where time and distance are interconnected in a way that we don't sense on earth, as the light from the stars we observe has to travel from the past because of the distances involved. So, in that sense, yes, "get around" I had, from 30 years before, to find that the words of the song ''39', which had been so much a part of my teenage world, and which Brian had written with the idea of 'spacetime' relativity in mind, had now become a reality. In the end, it was the non-verbal communication that proves the most poignant. I'm only reading into it what I understand - and that's a friendship that has transcended time - through the Queen songs that, one way or another, have punctuated my life over the years, even when I have not been conscious of it. The other idea behind ''39', therefore, that of an emotional journey - you "get around" and, one day, you land...and, on that afternoon, I was not able to stop smiling! In a different place Way 'cross Time and Space The door is open wide Drawn to a different light Maybe we'll step inside
In Another World We can show we care You can be sure I'm waiting there - In Another World...
You can believe I'll meet you here In Another World
Brian May, 'Another World'
***************
Awaking from a dream, the whole of me Met with the whole of you. In the silence Not one word was left unspoken. We didn't See eye to eye on everything But
in everything we are face to face.
My words, written in 2004 on returning to the music of Queen - more here.
My writing © Bohemia-Place.net 2006
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A Hard Life, 1984
Invisible
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