[scottinalaska]

Now Queen definitely had it goin' on with this tune.
I revisited it a couple years ago as an object lesson on the futility of existentialism with some Christian kids(I hate boring church lessons).

Is this the real life-(now there's a good question!)
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide- (of misdirecting information. Here, read this IRS manual and then go back to sleep)
No escape from reality-
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see-
I’m just a poor boy,I need no sympathy- (It's important to make people FEEL like they are sovereign)
Because I’m easy come,easy go,
A little high,little low, (Oh yeah, we're all cool, man)
Anyway the wind blows,doesn’t really matter to me,
To me (THAT is what we are led to think in the Public Fool system. After all, reality is what you make it. No absolutes. Just cruise, man.)

Mama,just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger,now he’s dead, (Only now do I understand that that kind of "killer" action was just a natural outgrowth to acting out what "nothing really matters". Hey, let's see what would happen! And we wonder about violence in our schools!)
Mama,life had just begun,
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away- (yup, go home to mama, or your new jail mate that will really make you cry "mama!")
Mama ooo,
Didn’t mean to make you cry-
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow-
Carry on,carry on,as if nothing really matters- (though we know it ALL really matters, but maybe my Public Defender will help me shortly.)

Too late,my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine-
Body’s aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody-I’ve got to go-
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth- (Why does the truth often become revealed too late?)
Mama ooo- (any way the wind blows)
I don’t want to die,
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all- (Don't most slaves come to this conclusion eventually...especially when they were taught that they were free or sovereign? Some of us kill ourselves, some of us are doing something about it(SJ members), and others drift back to sleep so not to make waves.)

I see a little silhouetto of a man, (Ah, all CAPITAL letters kind of guy, eh?)
Scaramouche,scaramouche will you do the fandango- (Paperwork is the only thing that gives this "man" a life)
Thunderbolt and lightning-very very frightening me- (Who is the real me?)
Galileo,galileo,
Galileo galileo (Sure, look to the heavens, maybe someone will take pity.)
Galileo figaro-magnifico-
But I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me-
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family-
Spare him his life from this monstrosity- (Ah, let the public relations scheme give the impression of "Due Process")
Easy come easy go-,will you let me go-
Bismillah! no-,we will not let you go-let him go- (Bismillah means, "In the name of Allah" thus, a higher authority determines the fate, not a jury of peers)
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let him go
Bismillah! we will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me- (In the end, Satan's goal is to collect as many souls as possible)

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye-
So you think you can love me and leave me to die-
Oh baby-can’t do this to me baby-
Just gotta get out-just gotta get right outta here- (There you go! Fight and argue so your fate can be sealed. Too bad your first presumption was wrong but as the closing lines indicate, some folks will not release faulty theories and reasoning, right down to their inevitable demise.)

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters-,nothing really matters to me,

Any way the wind blows....

There is your music lesson, kids. NOW, go turn it up and sing at the top of your lungs because you KNOW this is a fun one whatever the message!
scottinalaska