classic rock fans: pick one of these songs with unusual verses?

Question

please, and tell me what you think the song is REALLY all about.

I Am the Walrus (Beatles)
King of Pain (the Police)
Blinded by the Light (Manfred Mann)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
if you wish, you may interpret more than one, but i won't put you to the extra trouble. thanks very much to all participants.

yes, i knew bruce wrote it, but am usure, and won't debate who first recorded it. i attribute it to manfred b/c he made it a huge HIT. one could make the same case for "Bobbie MacGee"

!!!WWWOOOWWW!!! thanks for all the really insightful answers. this is one case i'd gladly donate points FROM my account TO yours for 5 or 6 of you. i'm grateful for the REALLY superlative efforts.

Answer 1

I am the Walrus
The song was written after the Beatles were going through fan mail, and they picked one out at random, which turned out to be from a school John had attended when he was young. And, the letter said that they were analyzing the lyrics of his songs in class. So, John wrote the nonsensical I Am The Walrus, largely based on The Walrus & The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll. It has been said that some of the lines were written by John under the influence of LSD, but Paul had nothing to do with it. It was John scribbling on scrap paper (I believe some of the handwritten lyrics to this song were auctioned off a couple years back). Semolina Pilchard, by the way, was a combination of two names of nasty foods John remembers eating as a child. Reportedly, after recording the song, Lennon smiled to producer George Martin and said, "There, let those buggers figure that one out." *laughing*

King of Pain
Sting wrote this following his separation from Frances. At the time, he was also not getting along with Stewart and Andy.
Sting wrote this in Jamaica at the house where Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond books.
Sting: "I conjured up symbols of pain and related them to my soul. A black spot on the sun struck me as being a very painful image." This was a tough song to record. Sting didn't accept most of the suggestions from Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland. The Police recorded this on the Caribbean Island of Monserrat. There was a great deal of tension in the band, and this was their last album.

Blinded by the Light
Manfred Mann stated in an interview that the song is about a night out at a bar. the "blinded by the the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night..." is about a tranny that walked into the bar.

Bohemian Rhapsody
There are litterally thousands of interpretations for this famous song. So I cant find a conclusive answer. The band admitted that the song had a very personal connection with Freddie, despite Freddie never mentioning so himself (because he preferred people to find their own meaning to Queen songs), so it can't simply be "rhyming nonsese" to go along with the song, and if it is a strange concept story in itself, it has to have a personal story for Freddie to go along with it. Freddy Mercury stated that he didn't like people asking him all the time what the song meant, and people should just enjoy it.

Answer 2

Forgive me,please, for not putting this in my own words....♫I'M SO TIRED♫, but not TOO tired to spot a Beatles question.
"The genesis of the lyrics is found in three different song ideas that Lennon was working on, the first of which was inspired by hearing a police siren while at his home in Weybridge; Lennon wrote the lines "Mis-ter cit-y police-man" to the rhythm of the siren. The second idea was a short rhyme about Lennon sitting in his Weybridge garden, while the third idea was a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake. Unable to finish the ideas as three different songs, he instead chose to combine them into one.

Sometime later, Lennon received a letter from a pupil attending Quarry Bank Grammar School, which he had attended as a child. The writer mentioned that the English master was making his class analyse Beatles song lyrics. (John wrote an answer to the letter, dated September 1, 1967, which was auctioned by Christie's of London in 1992.)

Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding Beatles lyrics, decided to write the most confusing, unusual lyric he could. Lennon's childhood friend and former fellow member of the Quarrymen Peter Shotton was visiting, and he asked Shotton about a silly playground nursery rhyme that they used to sing when they were kids.

Shotton remembered the words:

"Yellow matter custard, green slop pie,
All mixed together with a dead dog's eye,
Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick,
Then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus
(P.S. You have the kindest way about you...it's very refreshing.)

Answer 3

"Blinded by the Light" is my least favorite of the batch, but it does have that weird little passage that sounds like, "gave my anus curly-wurly"...that's always stuck with me. I think it's about a bad Saturday night complete with bender and sordid sexual encounters.

My fave of the batch? Mmmm....Bohemian Rhapsody, because I think it's a play on opera, and the very melodramatic staccato storyline and lyrics drive much of the piece. Quite Freddie Mercury from start to finish -- very unapologetic if it gets silly. I've always admired classic Queen for that.

Now "Macarthur Park" --- THAT'S a tune that defies clear interpretation in my opinion!

Answer 4

Bohemian Rhapsody IS By Queen one of the best artist maybe even beter then Arrow Smith

Answer 5

King Of Pain by The Police is one of Sting's most depressing songs if you really listen to the lyrics. He basicly is describing himself as a man that see's negativity everywhere. "There's alittle black spot on the sun today...It's the same old thing as yesterday." He thinks someone, (perhaps a love interest) can save him from this but he is stuck with his horrible fate to be The King Of Pain

Answer 6

Bohemian Rhapsody, I LOVE this song so much. I believe it is about him killing someone else and he is getting punished for it I guess that is what he is trying to say. It is really a great song with awesome lyrics.

Answer 7

Bohemian Rhapsody is a suicidal murder haunted by his crime and battling with himself to spare his life it also draws allegorical references to the war in Vietnam and the divisions arising in the US at that time

Answer 8

Blinded By the Light (Manfred Man)
I think he is about to die.

Answer 9

King of Pain (the Police) there's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread...!!!

Answer 10

Blinded by the light, about seeing a girl so hot that it blinds you. No idea..