Cat No: EMC 3061/CDP7 46206 2 (UK) HR 61036 (USA). Release Date: 8
Nov 1974 (UK) 12 Nov 1974 (USA). Produced By: Roy Thomas Baker and Queen.
Engineered By: Mike Stone. Recorded At: Trident, Wessex, Rockfield and
Air. When: July - September 1974. Cover Concept: Queen. Highest Chart Pos:
2 (UK) 12 (USA). Weeks On Chart: 42 (UK) 32 (USA). Award Status: Gold (UK
and USA).
Brighton Rock
(Brian May)
- Happy little day Jimmy went away
- Met his little Jenny on a public holiday
- A happy pair they made so decorously laid
- 'Neath the gay illuminations all along the promenade
- It's so good to know there's still a little magic in the air
- I'll weave my spell
Jenny will you stay tarry with me pray- Nothing 'ere need come between us
- Tell me love what do you say?
- Oh no I must away to my mum in disarray
- If my mother should discover how I spent my holiday
- It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air
- I'll say farewell
Oh rock of ages do not crumble- Love is breathing still
- Oh lady moon shine down
- A little people magic if you will
Jenny pines away writes a letter ev'ry day- We must ever be together
- Nothing can my love erase
- Oh no I'm compromised
- I must apologize if my lady should discover
- How I spent my holidays
Killer Queen
(Freddie Mercury)
- She keeps Moet and Chandon in her pretty cabinet
- 'Let them eat cake' she says
- Just like Marie Antoinette
- A built in remedy for Khrushchev and Kennedy
- And anytime an invitation you can decline
- Caviar and cigarettes well versed in etiquette
- Extr'ordinarily nice
She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine- Dynamite with a lazer beam
- Guaranteed to blow your mind
- Recommended at the price
- Insatiable an appetite wanna try?
To avoid complications- She never kept the same address
- In conversation she spoke just like a baroness
- Met a man from China went down to Geisha Minah
- Then again incidentally if you're that way inclined (she's a killer
queen)
- Perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally)
- For cars she couldn't care less
- Fastidious and precise
She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine- Dynamite with a lazer beam
- Guaranteed to blow your mind
- Recommended at the price
- Insatiable an appetite wanna try?
Drop of a hat she's as willing as a playful as a pussy cat- Then momentarily out of action
- Temporarily out of gas
- To absolutely drive you wild - wild
- She's out to get you
She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine- Dynamite with a lazer beam
- Guaranteed to blow your mind
- Recommended at the price
- Insatiable an appetite wanna try?
Wanna try
Tenement Funster
(Roger Taylor)
- My new purple shoes
- Bin amazin' the people next door
- And my rock'n'roll forty fives
- Bin enragin' the folks on the lower floor
I got a way with the girls on my block- Try my best to be a real individual
- And when we go down to smokies and rock
- They line up like it's some kind of ritual
- Oh give me a good guitar
- And you can say that my hair's a disgrace
- Or just find me an open car
- I'll make the speed of light outa this place
I like the good things in life- But most of the best things ain't free
- It's the same situation just cuts like a knife
- When you're young and you're poor and you're crazy
- Young and you're crazy...
Oh give me a good guitar- And you can say that my hair's a disgrace
- Or just find me an open car
- I'll make the speed of light outa this place
Flick Of The Wrist
(Freddie Mercury)
- Dislocate your spine if you don't sign
- He says I'll have you seeing double
- Mesmerize you when he's tongue tied
- Simply with those eyes ooh
- Synchronize your minds and see
- The beast within him rise
- Don't look back don't look back
- It's a rip off
- Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby
- Blow him a kiss and you're mad
- Flick of the wrist he'll eat your heart out
- A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head
- He's taken an arm and taken a leg
- All this time honey baby you've been had
Intoxicate your brain with what I'm sayin'- If not you'll lie in knee deep trouble
- Prostitute yourself he says
- Castrate your human pride ooh
- Sacrifice your leisure days
- Let me squeeze you 'till you've dried
- Don't look back don't look back
- It's a rip off
Work my fingers to my bones- I scream with pain I still make no impression
- Seduce you with his money make machine
- Cross collateralise big time money money
- Reduce you to a muzak fake machine
- Then the last goodbye
- Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby
- Blow him a kiss and you're mad
- Flick of the wrist he'll eat your heart out
- A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head
- He's taken an arm and taken a leg
- All this time honey baby you've been had
Lily Of The Valley
(Freddie Mercury)
- I am forever searching high and low
- But why does ev'ryone tell me no
- Neptune of the seas an answer for me please
- The lily of the valley doesn't know
I lie in wait with open eyes- I carry on thru' stormy skies
- I follow ev'ry course my kingdom for a horse
- But each time I grow old
- Serpent of the Nile relieve me for a while
- And cast me from your spell and let me go
Messenger from seven seas has flown- To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne
- Wars will never cease
- Is there time enough for peace?
- The lily of the valley doesn't know
Now I'm Here
(Brian May)
- Here I stand (here I stand..)
- Look around around around around
- (Around around around around.)
- But you won't see me (you won't see me.)
- Now I'm here (now I'm here.)
- Now I'm there (now I'm there.)
- I'm just a just a new man
- Yes you made me live again
A baby I was when you took my hand- And the light of the night burned bright
- And the people all stared didn't understand
- But you knew my name on sight
- Whatever came of you and me?
- America's new bride to be
- Don't worry baby I'm safe and sound
- Down in the dungeon just Peaches and me
- Don't I love her so?
- Yes she made me live again Yeah!
A thin moon me in the smoke screen sky- Where the beams of your love light chase
- Don't move don't speak don't feel no pain
- With the rain running down my face
- Your matches still light up the sky
- And many a tear lives on in my eye
- Down in the city just Hoople and me
- Don't I love him so don't I love him so?
Whatever comes of you and me- I love to leave my memories with you
Now I'm here (now I'm here.)- Think I'll stay around around around
- (Around around around around..)
- Down in the city just you and me
- (Down in the city just you and me..)
Don't I love you so?
Go Go Go Little Queenie
In The Lap Of The Gods
(Freddie Mercury)
- Ah ah ah ah ah
- Ah ah ah
- Leave it in the lap of the gods
- Ah ah ah
I live my life for you- Think all my thoughts with you and only you
- Anything you ask I do for you
- I touch your lips with mine
- But in the end I leave it to the lords
- Leave it in the lap of the gods
- What more can I do?
- Leave it in the lap of the gods
- I leave it to you
- Leave it in the lap of the gods
- Leave it in the lap of the gods
- I want you to
- Leave it in the lap of the gods
- Leave it in the lap of the gods
- Leave it in the lap of the gods
- Lap of the gods
- Lap of the gods
- Lap of the gods
- Lap of the gods
- Lap of the gods
- Lap of the gods
Stone Cold Crazy
(Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon)
- Sleeping very soundly on a Saturday morning
- I was dreaming I was Al Capone
- There's a rumour going round
- Gotta clear outa town
- I'm smelling like a dry fish bone
- Here come the law gonna break down the door
- Gonna carry me away once more
- Never never I never want it anymore
- Gotta get away from this stone cold floor
- Crazy stone cold crazy you know
Rainy afternoon I gotta blow a typhoon- And I'm playing on my slide trombone
- Anymore anymore cannot take it anymore
- Gotta get away from this stone cold floor
- Crazy stone cold crazy you know
Walking down the street- Shooting people that I meet
- With my rubber Tommy water gun
- Here come the deputy
- He's gonna come and get me
- I gotta get me up and run
- They got the sirens loose
- I ran right outa juice
- They're gonna put me in a cell
- If I can't go to heaven
- Will they let me go to hell?
- Crazy stone cold crazy you know
Dear Friends
(Brian May)
- So dear friends
- Your love has gone
- Only tears to dwell upon
- I dare not say
- As the wind must blow
- So a love is lost
- A love is won
- Go to sleep and dream again
- Soon your hopes will rise
- And then from all this gloom
- Life can start anew
- And there'll be no crying soon
Misfire
(John Deacon)
- Don't you misfire fill me up
- With the desire to carry on
- Don't you know honey that love's a game
- It's always a hit or miss
- So take your aim
- Got to hold on tight
- Shoot me out of sight
Don't you misfire fill me up- With the desire to carry on
- Don't you misfire fill me up
- With the desire to carry on
- Your gun is loaded
- And pointing my way
- There's only one bullet
- So don't delay
- Got to time it right
- Fire me through the night
- Come on take a shot
- Fire me higher
- Don't you miss this time
- Please don't misfire
- Misfire
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
(Freddie Mercury)
- Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
- Bring back bring back gotta ring that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy Yeah Yeah!- Daddy cool with a ninety dollar smile (ooh Yeah)
- Took my money out of gratitude
- And he git right out of town
- Well I gotta getty up steady up shoot him down
- Gotta hit that latitude babe
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!- Bring back bring back gotta ring that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Big bad Leroy Brown he got no common sense- No no he got no brains but he sure gotta lotta style
- Can't stand no more in this here jail
- I gotta rid myself of this sentence
- Gotta get out of the heat step into the shade
- Gotta get me there dead or alive babe
Wooh wooh big bad Leroy- Wooh wooh wooh wooh
- Big bad Leroy Brown
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!- Bring back bring back gotta bring back Leroy Brown Yeah!
Big mama Lulu Belle she had a nervous breakdown- She had a nervous breakdown
- Leroy's taken her honey chile away
- But she met him down at the station Oohoo
- Put a shotgun to his head and unless I be mistaken
- This is what she said
Big bad big boy big bad Leroy Brown- I'm gonna get that cutie pie
- Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
- Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation Yeah Yeah!
- Gone and got himself elected President
- We want Leroy for President
Next time you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather- This time like a shimmy shammy leather
- He's a big boy bad boy Leroy
- I don't care where you get him from
- Bring that big bad Leroy back
- Want him back
She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes)
(Brian May)
- I love she makes me
- She is my heart
- She is my love
- She is my love
I know you're jealous of her- She makes me need
- She is my love
- She is my love
Who knows who she'll make me- As I lie in her cocoon
- But the world will surely heal my ills
- I'm warm and terrified
- She makes me so
I know the day I leave her- I'd love her still
- She is my love
- She is my love
Who knows where my dreams will end- I'll follow as they grow
- But the world will know
- How long I'll take
- And if I'm very slow
- She makes me so
- She is my love
- She is my love
In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
(Freddie Mercury)
- It's so easy but I can't do it
- So risky but I gotta chance it
- It's so funny there's nothing to laugh about
- My money that's all you want to talk about
- I can see what you want me to be
- But I'm no fool
It's in the lap of the gods- Wo wo la la la
- I can see what you want me to be
- But I'm no fool
No beginning there's no ending- There's no meaning in my pretending
- Believe me life goes on and on and on
- Forgive me when I ask you where do I belong
- You say I (you can do it) can't (you can do it
- You can go and) set you free from me
- But that's not true
It's in the lap of the gods- Wo wo la la la
- I can see what you want me to be
- But I'm no fool
- It's in the lap of the gods
- Wo wo la la la wo
- Wo wo la la wo wo wooh
- But that's not true
- It's in the lap of the gods
- Wo wo la la la wo
- Wo wo la la wo wo wooh
- But I'm no fool
- It's in the lap of the gods
- Wo wo la la la wo
- Wo wo la la wo wo wooh
- It's in the lap of the gods
- Wo wo la la la wo
- Wo wo la la wo wo wooh
- But I'm no fool
- It's in the lap of the gods
- Wo wo la la la wo
- Wo wo la la wo wo wooh.
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