Shattering Illusions
Mercury also said: “I’m going to shatter some illusions, it was just one of those pieces I wrote for the album: just writing my batch of songs. In its early stages I almost rejected it, but then it grew.” The entire band always had a strong belief in letting their listeners interpret their songs in a personal way to them, rather than impose their own meaning on songs.
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The lack of explanation on the meaning of the song created an air of mystery. The only thing Mercury agreed to say was that the song is “about relationships.” Mercury also claimed that the lyrics were nothing more than “Random rhyming nonsense.” And Roger Taylor said the song is “fairly self-explanatory with just a bit of nonsense in the middle.”