![]() Simultaneously terrifying and celebratory, it’s like nothing else. I was always looking for an apocalyptic reading within. The enormous monstrous robot, the crowds fleeing, the sadness and incomprehension, the dead bad members. I guess it’s partly the cover of the record. A lovely country walk through mass graves, somehow managing to stay alive and sprightly as everything else fails. I always picturerd the narrator walking through an almost naive countryside apocalypse, surrounded by dead after some monstrous cataclysm, and managing to be surprisingly upbeat about the whole thing. I’ll often assess something just from choruses, title and mood.Īnd weirdly, this track always struck me with a very specific image, that has little to do with the song itself. I don’t often pay attention to lyrics when I first hear songs, which makes a lot of what I’ve written in this blog somewhat disingenous. It’s only the repetitions that are accompanied, warmed with bass, drum and extra harmonies, creating this sense of motion and evolution. ![]() It’s a bouncily melancholy piano track, with additional instrumentation used simply to punctuate and emphasise. It’s one of those strange entries into the back catalogue that sound like nothing else Queen have done, but could also only have been made by them. When his guitar does sweep in, it’s something totally incredible, a strange uplifting swirl of a solo that simply acts as a form of ascension narrative, just a chorus of upward motion (and a slight drop). Brian sings throughout, mostly accompanied by piano, with bass and drum only dropping in for half of each chorus. The piece starts with a set of piano flourishes that sound like they belong in the credit sequence of a Hayao Miyazaki film. Which is a pretty reasonable way to learn about death, and this is a pretty good lesson to take from it. He admitted at one point that this lovely song about death, nostalgia and loss is basically about when his cat died when he was little. This is his first piano ballad, and basically serves as a remarkably upset about losing a loved one. ![]() Brian May once again proves he’s at his loveliest when he’s at his weirdest (and saddest).
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