The Rhapsody

Rashak

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Does anyone else see some relation to domestic violence in this song. "I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy" In most cases violent families have financial problems, and a lot of children of these kinds of families are very independent and don't like "hand-outs." " A little High, a little low" the "highs" could be when the abusive parent is gone, like they do in some cases, and the "lows" would be when said parent is living with them. "Mama, just killed a man, put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead" it could sound like "mama" killed the man, but the key words in this verse are "my trigger" if the theme of domestic violence is followed, this would mean that while "mama" was being beaten, something snapped in the narrator's head, and he killed his father. "If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, Carry on, carry on..." after he killed his father, in fear that he would be caught, and probably sentenced to death, he ran from his home. "Too late, my time has come" either he is hallucinating and is imagining what the court hearings of his trials would be before he dies, or he's caught and is on trial. "Sends shivers down my spine-bodys aching all the time" would be supporting the former, or jitters due to his court hearing. "gotta leave you all behind and face the truth," would kinda support him actually being caught, and hint that he has some minor contact with his mother after the killing of his father.
"Scaramouche, scaramouche will you do the fandango-" Scaramouche was a roughish character who was very boastful, the fandango is a dance, in requesting that scaramouche do the fandango, it would seem that the narrator is asking the courtroom to stop dancing around the evidence and get on with it already. during the rest of that verse you can see a sort of back and forth between the litigators.
the following verse seems to be the narrator chewing his attorney out.
the last verse makes it seem like he is calming down, and is accepting his fate, and dieing.

Oh, and please be constructive.
 
It's called Bohemian Rhapsody.

And this belongs in the music section.

Also, wait. Him asking someone to dance translates to him asking the courtroom to stop dancing? Does not compute.
 
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