Is this the real life?

[Briar Rose 7457]

Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No esacpe from reality?
Open your eyes
look up to the skies and see...

 

[Stepharoonie!]

 

[Wish Upon A Star]

I'm Just a Poor Boy
I Need No Sympathy

 

[airhead]

...easy come,easy go

 

[Timmer]

Little high, little low

 

[fantasymagic]

Let him go

 

[Banzai]

Way too freaky! We are listening to this right now in class!

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me...

 

[JoNo]

TOOOOOOOOOOOO MMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..................

 

[airhead]

mama,just killed a man
put a gun up to his head
pulled the trigger,now he's dead

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

mama, life had just begun,
and now I've gone and thrown it all away...

 

[bananiem]

Mama, OOO-oo-OO
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

 

[two4ruff]

Too late
My time has come

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

sent shivers down my spine,
body's aching all the time...

 

[airhead]

goodbye everybody,
I've got to go-
gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

 

[missypie]

High School graduation, 1976. Boyfriend and I sat in the car and listened to the end of the song before getting out to go to the after graduation party.

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

Mama, ooh
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

 

[monalsw]

i get goosebumps every time i hear this song and think of freddie mercury. don't know if he had a hand in the writing of it, but kind of prophetic...

 

[bananiem]

Ok, I've had this ear worm all day. Enough of the slow part...on to the next section!

Scaramoosh, scaramoosh
Can you do the fandango?
Thunderbolts and lightning
Very, very frightening
ME

( I have no idea how to spell the first words of the stanza. Nor do I know what it means. )

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango.
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me.
(Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo, Galileo figaro
Magnifico. I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go.
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go.
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go.
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go.
(Let me go.) Will not let you go.
(Let me go.) Will not let you go. (Let me go.) Ah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
(Oh mama mia, mama mia.) Mama mia, let me go.
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.


The song makes reference to the novel and play Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini .

How through the crowded days of the French Revolution, Andre Moreau, fugitive, strolling player, master of the sword, gained fame and happiness because he fought equally well with tongue and rapier. Never will the reader forget the sardonic Scaramouche who was "born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
published by The Riverside Press Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921

courtesy http://www.rafaelsabatini.com/scara.html