I am refairing to the lyrics:
"Outside the dawn is breaking
but inside in the dark i am aching to be free".
My point is that even if you take the song out of context ( the period it was written) its hard to imagine something else except death coming as something that sets free the "protagonist" of the song.
The specific lyric is literally talking about the begining of a new day ( Outside the dawn is breaking ). However the protagonist is determined not to go along with it . He is aching for something different that is not the continuation of life as it portayed by the new day that is coming.
Instead he remains in the dark ( like inside a house with closed windows) aching for a form of freedom that the new day can't provide. So in my mind this is a metaphor of a death wish as a form of salvation.
Could it be something different?Your thoughts?
people on streets wrote:
My thoughts?
The song is written by Brian May.
Close topic.
Now come on, I know they're your thoughts, but just because your reckoning conflicts with Stelios' doesn't mean that there's nothing to discuss, so therefore:
Open topic.
Lyrics are very much open to interpretation. True, there may be a solid meaning that Mr May wrote these lyrics about, but it doesn't mean it's the only way they should be looked at.
I attended a poetry recital the once, and one of the poets (the name escapes me, poetry isn't really my thing!) and one of the poets spoke about how one of their fans wrote in to the to explain what they interpreted the meaning of a poem to be, and even though it's not what the poem was written about, the poet their self agreed that it could be seen that way and they respected the viewpoint of their fan. This surely applies to song lyrics, which in a sense are a form of poetry.
I have never thought about those lyrics in the way that Stelios talks about, but I can certainly see where he's coming from, as he's looking at a deeper meaning of how a person may be wishing to be freed from their suffering to a blissful death, which breaking out to the dawning day would not cure. Personally, I interpret it to be that Brian is recognising Freddie's suffering, and pointing out that in his feeble state, he wishes he could escape from the illness and be free to live his life normally.
Just because it's talking about pain and suffering, it doesn't mean it has to be pain and suffering that Brian is/was suffering, people do write songs from other view points. I think that compared to some of the bilge that's posted on this forum sometimes, it's nice to see something that's well thought out and which delves into deeper meanings, rather than posting threads about how amazing their painfully awful music (in the broadest possible sense) and posting three million threads about the same thing when news is announced.
But obviously, what I've said is going to be wrong...
A number of Queen and solo songs of the period could be interpreted both ways. Another one is "Too Much Love" which again could be interpreted as either about Freddie or else Brian's romantic troubles. I suspect the "=Brian" interpretation was mentioned to slightly mask the "=Freddie" interpretation. But TSMGO is much harder to rationalise as "=Brian".
Brian himshelf had always defended the view that although he wrote the song out of personal termoil he was also on a consious or subconscious level delving/channeling themes that overlapsed his very own condition.
And that can be said for almost the entity of the Innuendo album regardless of originall writter of song.
Things become very obscure when writters are in a posisition that Queen were at the time. Looking with one eye at the abyss that is.
(sorry for triple thread but something went wrong as i wanted to reply with quote to what "people on streets" wrote)
It's simple:
""Outside the dawn is breaking
but inside in the dark i am aching to be free". "
Where he is, it's dark and he's aching to be free where outside the dawn is breaking.
Probably influenced knowing full well what was going on with the band.
(It was facing it's demise with the band full knowing)
Being that that was probably obvious since 1988 (or earlier despite what's said in interviews: final tour, fm declines etc. )
I think Brian wrote it fully aware of the situation.
Same goes for Freddie and WAS IT ALL WORTH IT. ...
As well as MOTHER LOVE
I think the true reason Freddie didn't sing the last line was as an act of defiance. Brian's quote of Freddie "I'm not up to this" (implied: I'm not up to this (at the time)
can also mean. .. I'm not singing that.
Let me be.
Just a guess. But the ambiguous answer suggests that was the case
Just my opinion
I read somewhere that Brian and Freddie sat down and worked out the lyrics together. I have always thought of those lines as probably coming straight from Freddie even if Brian wrote the other 99% of the words.
Supersonic_Man89 wrote: It's simple:
""Outside the dawn is breaking
but inside in the dark i am aching to be free". "
Where he is, it's dark and he's aching to be free where outside the dawn is breaking.
i disagree. I'm more inclined to the completely metaphorical: ""Outside the dawn is breaking"
could mean that everyone else he knows is living in the light - ie happy thoughts/lives "but inside in the dark i am aching to be free"
means - i can see no f**king end to this misery - i want to die
"As well as MOTHER LOVE
I think the true reason Freddie didn't sing the last line was as an act of defiance. Brian's quote of Freddie "I'm not up to this" (implied: I'm not up to this (at the time)
can also mean. .. I'm not singing that.
Let me be. "
Interesting point. If in one way or another Freedie felt that this may be his last piece (due to the digree of his deterioration ) he may not wanted to finish it as not wanting to put the full-stop.
Anger/regret about his own condition although never documented must have been there and to sing those lines/ finishing Mother Love may felt as intentionally and willingly closing the chapter of his profesional life/artistic persona. Instead leaving dots, at that point, like "...to be continued/ fuck it " seems very Mercuryal to me
matt z wrote:
Probably influenced knowing full well what was going on with the band.
(It was facing it's demise with the band full knowing)
Being that that was probably obvious since 1988 (or earlier despite what's said in interviews: final tour, fm declines etc. )
I think Brian wrote it fully aware of the situation.
Same goes for Freddie and WAS IT ALL WORTH IT. ...
As well as MOTHER LOVE
I think the true reason Freddie didn't sing the last line was as an act of defiance. Brian's quote of Freddie "I'm not up to this" (implied: I'm not up to this (at the time)
can also mean. .. I'm not singing that.
Let me be.
Just a guess. But the ambiguous answer suggests that was the case
Just my opinion