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ffart2022uwu · 8 months

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-Queen albums as dresses-

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freddie-mercury-rising · 1 year

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Day 25: Lily of the Valley from Sheer Heart Attack

This song concludes the 3 part medley that began with Tenement Funster. As I said, the transition from Flick of the Wrist is epic and beautiful.

Then, Freddie’s piano takes over in the most lovely way.

“I am forever searching high and low” – okay, if anyone ever doubts Freddie Mercury’s voice, they are dead to me. Because this man’s voice! No words.

“But why does everybody tell me no” – hot damn those notes he hits! His voice has such a range and this song shows it off.

“Neptune of the seas…an answer for me please / The lily of the valley doesn’t grow.” These lyrics feel very autobiographical in a kind of a sad way. I also love how Freddie is doing his own vocal backing/harmonizing. I love nothing more than Freddie Mercury with a side of Freddie Mercury.

“But each time I grow old…”–This is where the song breaks through and gains this powerful momentum. You can feel the emotion in every single bit of this line. It starts soft and lilting and then it cranks through these different notes and (non-musician here trying to explain musical terms) just sounds effortless, even though that seems like a pretty bad-ass thing to do with one’s voice.

“Serpent of the Nile, relieve me for a while.” I sense his desperation in this, and it makes me want to weep.

Brian May says of this song: “Lily of the Valley was utterly heartfelt. It's about looking at his girlfriend and realising that his body needed to be somewhere else. It's a great piece of art, but it's the last song that would ever be a hit.”

In this line about asking the serpent to cast him from his spell, I feel Freddie’s inner turmoil about his sexuality. To me, he is alluding to the so-called sin of lust and desire, a spell he claims he is under that he wishes to shake off. While a lily is a symbol of purity and goodness, the spell Freddie says he is under (his desire for men) feels separate from that. It makes me want to give Freddie a huge hug! . “Messenger from Seven Seas has flown/ To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne” - Here we have a throwback to the mythical land of Rhye again. Very interesting symbology there too, if you ask me. What I love about Freddie is that he can be so poignant with so much of this, but then he’d probably just wave it off and say “Oh, darling, it was about fairies and ogres!”

“Wars will never cease, is there time enough for peace? / But the lily of the valley doesn't know” - The end of this seems so full of calm regret.

Brian’s guitar sounds almost like a violin at times in this. It’s beautiful. In lieu of a guitar solo, he does this kind of prophetic send off.

Overall, what a gorgeous song that speaks of love and loss and regret and melancholy. It’s one of my favorites.

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ecoamerica · 24 days

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plumspider · 4 months

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favourite queen album?

Idk, I pick one or two songs from each album to obsess over so I don’t rlly have one. I also never know about albums with music artists, the one with good old fashioned lover boy or bohemian rhapsody.

Based off my playlist I’d say jazz or a day at the races.

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my-introverted-self · 7 months

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