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Dislocate your spine if you don't sign he says
I'll have you seeing double (double)
Mesmerize you when he's tongue-tied
Simply with those eyes, ooh ooh 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, ooh ooh ooh ooh
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 saying
If not you'll lie in knee-deep trouble
Prostitute yourself he says
Castrate your human pride, ooh ooh 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, aah, aah, aah
Work my fingers to my bones
I scream with pain
I still make no impression
Seduce you with his money-make machine
Cross-collateralize, (big-time money money)
Reduce you to a muzak-fake machine
Then the last goodbye
It's a rip-off
Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad, ooh ooh ooh ooh
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
I'll have you seeing double (double)
Mesmerize you when he's tongue-tied
Simply with those eyes, ooh ooh 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, ooh ooh ooh ooh
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 saying
If not you'll lie in knee-deep trouble
Prostitute yourself he says
Castrate your human pride, ooh ooh 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, aah, aah, aah
Work my fingers to my bones
I scream with pain
I still make no impression
Seduce you with his money-make machine
Cross-collateralize, (big-time money money)
Reduce you to a muzak-fake machine
Then the last goodbye
It's a rip-off
Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad, ooh ooh ooh ooh
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
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Of course the manager interpret makes sense, since Freddie wrote songs about them before, but work is what I always think about.
THIS IS A GREAT SONG.
Of course the manager interpret makes sense, since Freddie wrote songs about them before, but work is what I always think about.
THIS IS A GREAT SONG.
For instance, say you have record "A". It cost $100k to make, but only makes $50.k
Then you record "B", which costs $100k and makes $200k.
If you don't cross-collateralize, the record company eats the $50k it lost on the first album and the band gets the $100k profit on the second album.
If you do, the company pays off A's $50k debt with the profits of B, but the band only earns $50k. When you consider that less than half the albums released end up turning a profit, you see why this kind of system is necessary.
As others have mentioned, the album is about the band taking it up the ass from the music industry, though it could be true for any young band--they're wowed by the "money-make machine" when they're courted by a label, but once they're in it, they're screwed over and "reduced to a muzak-fake machine" and forced to sell out or bend to the whims of the label because of the contract.
It's impressive how many songs there are about musicians who hate the machinations of the music biz after they get into it (cf. Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine"/"Have a Cigar", the Kinks' "Lola vs. Powerman and the Money-go-round" album).
I agree with the consensus that this is a precursor to Death on Two Legs.
this song is about druggs!!!
How dosent anybodey else see it??
It is as mutch a heroin song as it can be!!
well the thing about being unappreciated, is true. some wankers don´t listen queen because freddie was gay.
That´s a shame,