So you think you can love me and leave me to die So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening meīut I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves meīismillah! No we will not let you go – let him goīismillah! We will not let you go – let him goīismillah! We will not let you go let me go Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

It means ‘in the name of Allah’.Īnyway the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to me, to meĬarry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters It was a buffoon who always managed to work his way out of any tricky situation at the expense of someone else.īismillah also isn’t gibberish – it’s the phrase used by Muslims in the way Christians might say ‘Grace’. Scaramouche has a meaning – it’s a character in a 17th century comedy show called Commedia dell’arte. While some can’t find any meaning to the song and believe Freddie made every single word up, they’re not quite right. Roger added: ‘What does it mean? I get asked that all the time and I have no answer.’ ‘He had something in his mind and he loved to spin these little pieces of magic,’ he continued. ‘A little bit of reality and little bit of fantasy.’īrian also suggested that it’s pointless for anyone to try to ‘unravel’ the meaning behind the lyrics: ‘They’ll never manage it because they’ll never know what went into those lyrics.’ ‘What’s it about? None of us know. Freddie never talked about it to my knowledge and didn’t want to and that’s the way it should be,’ Brian told the BBC.

But Brian and Roger Taylor have revealed that no-one knows and will ever know what he song was truly about.

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