Nothing Really Matters
Anyway the wind blows
Nothing really matters to me but
I just gotta get right outta here
You think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby
You think you can stop me and spit in my eye
Can't do this to me baby
Galileo, Galileo! Spare
him his life from this monstrosity
Just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family!
Galileo! Figaro!
Let him go!
Thunderbolt and lightning
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Very very frightening me
Beelzebub has a devil put aside
For me
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Put a gun against his head
Mama, life had just begun
Mama, I just killed a man
Now I've gone and thrown it all away
Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
Goodbye, I've got to go
But I don't want to die, Mama
Body's aching all the time
Sends shivers down my spine, Mama
Too late, my time has come
Mama!
Carry on, as if nothing really matters
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Didn't mean to make you cry, Mama
Anyway the wind blows,
A little high, little low
Easy come, easy go
Just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Look up to the skies and see
Open your eyes
No escape from reality
Caught in a landslide
Is this just fantasy
Is this the real life
Doesn't really matter to me
*A rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Hi! The musical quality of this poem is really incredible! I like how you retained the musicality of the song even though you changed things, and it made me view the song in a different way, just by placing the lyrics in the context of a poem. That being said, I think this poem would be more effective as a poem (instead of as a song) if you took away some of the lines that seem too song-like. For example, the lines that say "oh baby' and "can't do this to me baby," and where "for me" repeats. Overall, cool idea and great poem with lots of potential!
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ReplyDeleteThough I do not know the original version of this song, I appreciated the difference between this poem and the usual poem that people in our class post. This poem seems to have more freedom with using ideas that not all readers are familiar with (which is okay)! This poem also utilizes very short lines at times, including the times "Mama" is referenced. I am still not sure what most of this poem means, but this poem showed me a new poetic structure. Perhaps this is part of the musical structure of this poem, but I thought some of the rhymes were forceful (or counter-intuitively too "easy"). For example, "leave me to die" and "spit in my eye." One of the stronger rhymes in your poem were not end rhymes, which is maybe why I liked them better: "Look up to the skies and see/ Open your eyes/ No escape from reality." Skies and eyes rhyme, but by placing skies in the middle of the line, the forcefulness of the rhyme was not felt. Instead, see and reality rhymed with each other, and conceptually those were flowed very smoothly as end rhymes.
Great job!
It was really interesting to read "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the format of a poem. I couldn't help but sing it in my head. The choices you made in switching up the order of the lyrics were definitely refreshing as a reader that is very familiar with the song. Since I feel like some lines are too short, I would suggest adding your own lines at certain points to make it slightly more poetic. For example, I feel like something could definitely be added to "a little high, little low" and "easy come, easy go." Such an original idea though!
ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with the song that you used for this poem but I think that it just shows what an excellent job you did because I the first time I read it I still got the musical feel from it even though I don't know the song that was used. I did have to go look it up eventually :) Now I can say you did a super job. It was quite clever how you rearranged the lines. It shows that you really know how to arrange lines and words to give them a strong poetic feel, and since you do have that talent I'd be interested to see how it would look if you mixed in some of your own language into the lines. I wonder if someone who never saw the lyrics would be able to tell? Great job Nahal!
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