Kuku 12.01.2004 23:22 |
I was going through various Queen lyrics today and I was so clueless about the lyric of My Fairy King. Here is the lyric: In the land where horses born with eagle wings And honey bees have lost their stings There's singing forever Lion's den with fellow deer And rivers made from wine so clear Flow on and on forever Dragons fly like sparrows thru' the air And baby lambs where Samson dares To go on on on on on on My fairy king can see things He rules the air and turns the tides That are not there for you and me Oh yeah he guides the winds My fairy king can do right and nothing wrong Then came man to savage in the night To run like thieves and to kill like knives To take away the power from the magic hand To bring about the ruin to the promised land They turn the milk into sour Like the blue in the blood of my veins Why can't you see it Fire burnin' in hell with the cry of screaming pain Son of heaven set me free and let me go Sea turn dry no salt from sand Teeth don't shine like pearls for the poor man's eyes Someone someone has drained the colour from my wings Broken my fairy circle ring And shamed the king in all his pride Changed the winds and wronged the tides Mother mercury (mercury) Look what they've done to me I cannot run I cannot hide I do have some of my opinions... but just want to know what everyone thinks about the lyric... -_- I'm so puzzled... (even a speculation will help) |
RainMustFall 13.01.2004 13:18 |
Okay. I'm not one to agree with sharing song interpretation, but perhaps a few comments will help you understand this gem. "In the land where horses born with eagle wings And honey bees have lost their stings There's singing forever Lion's den with fellow deer And rivers made from wine so clear Flow on and on forever Dragons fly like sparrows thru' the air And baby lambs where Samson dares To go on on on on on on" (Sounds like a paradise, where even natural enemies live among each other) "My fairy king can see things He rules the air and turns the tides That are not there for you and me Oh yeah he guides the winds " (Who the Fairy King is...) "My fairy king can do right and nothing wrong Then came man to savage in the night To run like thieves and to kill like knives To take away the power from the magic hand To bring about the ruin to the promised land" (Man comes, and what happens?) They turn the milk into sour Like the blue in the blood of my veins Why can't you see it Fire burnin' in hell with the cry of screaming pain Son of heaven set me free and let me go Sea turn dry no salt from sand Teeth don't shine like pearls for the poor man's eyes (Uh-ohs happening in the Fairy world.) Someone someone has drained the colour from my wings Broken my fairy circle ring And shamed the king in all his pride Changed the winds and wronged the tides Mother mercury (mercury) Look what they've done to me I cannot run I cannot hide" (And the main character's power is gone) Yes... I hope that helps you understand this song more clearly. Pay close attention to the lyrics and whatnot. |
Banquo 13.01.2004 13:24 |
Some of the lyrics are lifted wholesale from the Pied Piper. For a really interesting opinion read this link Puberty! LMFAO! Some people have too much time on their hands. Er just thought if its anyone on here then I'm sorry. |
RainMustFall 13.01.2004 13:37 |
Interesting interpretation of Delilah... |
Banquo 13.01.2004 13:46 |
HA Ha Ha. Fuck I could read this site all day. I don't want to spoil your enjoyment of it. So just a few snippets below. "To me, Another One Bites The Dust seems to be about a man - Steve - who has been kicked out of the house" You know what I mean there's a lot of space between your ears This sounds like we’re listening to a parent, teacher, or someone else from the adolescent’s direct environment. It might even be the songwriter who is giving an example of how the adolescent’s environment is talking about him. But anyhow, this sentence is open to two kinds of explanation. First, you can read it as if it says "you know what I mean: there's a lot of space between your ears" (notice the colon ":"). In that case, the speaker is accusing the adolescent of having no brains, being stupid, or simply not listening: a disobedient teenager. A second interpretation is to read, "you know what I mean ALTHOUGH there's a lot of space between your ears". In that case, the speaker says that he knows that the kid does understand him, even though the kid must understand that at his young age he doesn’t know anything about the real world yet, and that he still has a lot to learn. In other words: the speaker is an older person, who knows that he is wiser and more mature, but who is nevertheless able to put himself in the kid’s situation. Personally, I prefer this last interpretation ----------------------------------------------------- Is it raining in heaven Do you want us to cry A question from the remaining three, on behalf of all of us, to Freddie: are you OK up there, and does the fact that we are mourning make you cry? (the rain in heaven) This of course also brings up memories of Eric Clapton's song Tears In Heaven, which he wrote for his three years old son who died in a terrible accident. As we know, Brian admires Eric Clapton a lot (he dedicated the track Bluesbreaker from his Star Fleet Project to the man!), so this (indirectly) might have had some influence on him. -------------------------------------------------------- |
The Man On The Prowl 13.01.2004 15:34 |
In my opinion My Fairy King was inspired by Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake. You know, the child, the lamb... childhood is innocence, adultness is experience... And then of course the same theme was resumed by all the Romantic poets, as well as Robert Browning. Anyway I doubt the line of No One But You was inspired by Tears In Heaven. I like to think it's just a fruit of Brian's mind: Freddie is in heaven, so when Brian asks if it's raining in heaven he means to ask if Freddie is crying. Then he asks if he wants them to cry too, but that's a rhetorical question since the understood answer is no (it is also shown in the video when Freddie says no with his finger). |
Banquo 13.01.2004 16:08 |
That was Do'ro being poignant again. That bit where Freddie shakes his finger after "do you want us to cry" is the worst thing Do'ro have ever, ever done it makes me feel sick and makes my blood curdle. Horrible, horrible. It totally destroys the song. Better to hear the song without Do'ro awful touch. Still thanks to Simon Lupton it seems that Queen/Do'ro are finished. Good riddance. |
Lester Burnham 13.01.2004 16:20 |
Damn, I was hoping to get a video montage of Queen's entire back catalogue using pre-existing and previously released footage. |
The Man On The Prowl 13.01.2004 17:32 |
Well, but it's however evident that Brian's understood answer is no. |
FriedChicken 14.01.2004 08:55 |
Hahaha lol @ that stupid website. They could add my vision of TMOTBQ. It is about a fat black woman, who is baking a cake, Come on, it's obvious isn't it! -Black Queen -little nigger sugar -oil -she boils and she bakes -sugar baby -honey chile -now i've got a belly full -tattoos all her pies |
Togg 14.01.2004 09:09 |
All I know is the part where he sings 'Mother Mercury' is the moment (according to Brian) when he decided to change his name to Mercury. The Mother in the song is his own, again according to Brian. |
Ms.Lurex 15.01.2004 07:48 |
"Someone someone has drained the colour from my wings Broken my fairy circle ring" I found out a few years ago what a fairy ring was...so for any of you that don't know here ya go....."Fairies often dance in circles in the grass which are called fairie rings and this spells danger for the human passerby. The wild enchantment of the fairie music can lead him inexorably towards the ring which, like a fairie kiss or fairie food and drink, can lead to captivity for ever in the world of fairie. if a human steps into the ring he is compelled to join the fairies in their wild prancing. The dance might seem to last only minutes, or an hour or two, or even at most a whole night but in fact the normal duration would be seven years by our time and sometimes longer. The unfortunate captive can be rescued by a friend who, with others holding his coat-tails, follows the fairie music, reaches into the ring (keeping one foot firmly outside) and pulls the dancer out." from the book "Fairies" by brian fround and alan lee |
Ms.Lurex 15.01.2004 17:50 |
i agree with you man on the prowl...besides being influenced by that genre of literature, i can relate "white queen" a bit to john keats' "la belle dame sans merci" white queen is such a poetic gorgeous song...it could easily fall into that style of poetry |
Banquo 16.01.2004 11:43 |
Wen I did Keats for A-level English I also thought of White Queen when I read La Belle....etc. I wonder if it was an influence for Brian? |
Ms.Lurex 16.01.2004 11:55 |
i think possibly so! after all it's an enchanting poem as well as a gorgeous painting depicted by john william waterhouse...fantasy and folklore was predominant that era of art...i am still amazed every time i listen to Fairy Feller...to think freddie was inspired just by looking at the richard dadd painting...i wonder if any other pieces of art or literature influenced songs such as ogre battle or motbq...or the ideas just came out of thin air for freddie... |