妈妈啊,我刚刚杀了个人。
Is this the real life,
这一切是真的吗?
Is this just fantasy,
亦或仅仅是幻觉?
Caught in a landslide,
被困于山崩地裂,
No escape from reality,
无法逃脱现实的牢笼,
Open your eyes,
睁开你的双眼,
Look up to the skies and see,
抬头望望天空,
I'm just a poor boy' I need no sympathy,
我只是一个穷小孩,我不值得同情,
Because I'm easy come' easy go,
因为我总是说来就来,说走就走,
A little high' little low',
时而高亢,时而低沉,
Anyway the wind blows' doesn't really matter to me' to me,
风往何处吹,对我来说已无关紧要。
Mama' just killed a man',
妈妈啊,我刚刚杀了个人,
Put a gun against his head',
我拿枪指着他的头,
Pulled my trigger' now he's dead',
扣下了扳机,现在他死了,
Mama' life had just begun',
妈妈啊,生活才刚刚开始啊,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away,
然而如今我却远走并抛之脑后,
Mama' ooo',
妈妈,喔……,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
我并不想让你流泪,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
要是我在明天这个时候未能归来,
Carry on' carry on' as if nothing really matters,
让生活继续吧,如同什么都没发生,
Too late' my time has come',
太晚了,我的归宿要来了,
Sends shivers down my spine',
我的脊梁开始发颤,
Body's aching all the time',
浑身上下疼痛难忍,
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go,
再见吧,各位,我要离开了,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth,
我将离你们而去,去接受现实的审判,
Mama' ooo,
妈妈,喔……,
I don't want to die',
我也不想死去,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
甚至我有时希望自己从未降生。
歌词讲述一个男孩杀人后的恐慌、追悔莫及与自责。一开始他认为这只是个梦,想要逃离,当他意识到这一切之后认为自己确实罪该万死,而且已经无路可逃。他只是个穷孩子,身无分文,只好无奈的面对命运的审判。
旋律上这段用钢琴来抒情,间歇性的riff塑造了命运沉重感,而且你可以听到Queen精心打磨多次的痕迹(铃鼓声,至少有3个钢琴轨配合吉他,不同轨的伴唱等)而后梅校长那段经典的solo也将情绪推向了一个高潮。
我相信歌词的写成就像电影里描写的那样,Freddie积累多年的才华和想法,在某个瞬间突然爆发出来,也就造就了这段经典。情绪的抒发是那么的自然,多种复杂的感情被天才般地集合到了这3分钟的乐段之内。听众也被一遍遍的反复渲染情绪,代入了男孩的角色中。