I think Queen and Bowie touch on something rather profound in this song, which the video helps convey. I love the line “It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about watching some good friends scream ‘Get me out!'”
They are in touch with the inescapable destruction of human nature in this song, and it seems to bring them to their knees. “Pray tomorrow – gets me higher.”
The pinnacle is when Freddie Mercury screams out in desperation. He is brought to his end and then comes to the ultimate question “Why can’t we give love that one more chance?”
The only answer to Freddie’s cry is love, but it is not anything that we can do ourselves … it has to come from outside of us. Every time love breaks in it is a totally foreign, supernatural event, and I think the movement of this song captures that extremely well, and the video is pretty cool:)
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“Love’s such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves”
I thought I would add the end lyrics too because I just don’t think it gets much better. “love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night”! I mean that’s amazing! It is the fruit of love that always comes from outside of us; it is the love from the cross.
This song has captivated me for years and i ponder so much in the line of “Love is such an old fashioned word.” Almost as much as the fact that I do understand it but I am not able to grasp the entirety of what Freddie wanted to convey. It is really an old fashioned word in the world we live in, it has become so vague and almost forgotten.
This song would forever be my cry out