Lyrics for Killer Queen as interpreted by Novartza

Killer Queen Lyrics
She keeps Moet et Chandon, in her pretty cabinet
Let them eat cake she says, just like Marie Antoinette
A built in remedy, for Khrushchev and Kennedy
At anytime an invitation, you can't decline

Caviar and cigarettes
Well versed in etiquette
Extraordinarily nice

She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime, ooh
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?

To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation, she spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from China, went down to Geisha Minah
Then again incidentally, if you're that way inclined

Perfume came naturally from Paris
For cars she couldn't care less
Fastidious and precise

She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime

Drop of a hat she's a willing as
Playful as a pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely drive you wild, wild..
She's all out to get you

She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime, ooh
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try

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G_Yarm
12-04-2004

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i like this song espiecially the "dynamite with a laser beam" thing.

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pineapplehead2
12-04-2004

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I think I have heard two meanings and thats.

Nighmare
and also I think i head its about a drug.

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Mr. Badguy0077
12-07-2004

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ok one, dont try so hard to find a "bisexual" double meaning into this song you frikin homophobes
two, this must be talking about a hooker, judging by "Recommended at the price" and how notorious she is as a lovemaker

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sarcasticSmith
12-15-2004

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Yeah, I don't think this is about gay people in the slightest. I think that the Killer Queen is a high class call-girl, like a western equivalent to a geisha (they even mention "geisha" in the song). This makes sense because of the references to high-class people like Khrushchev and Kennedy and invitations you can't decline.

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10west
01-01-2005

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I thought, in high school, Killer Queen, a beautiufl girl with a heartwreckin' reputation, like a groupie extraordinaire or a call girl in the expensive class. Well that still maybe true, in the song, but I think it's about a girl, who is an assassin, by the lyric and reference to the price

She's a Killer Queen
Gunpowder, gelatine (sex and blasting you)
Dynamite with a laser beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind (sexually and literally)
Anytime (for hire)

that's what I think now adays, maybe the kennedy thing made me think. it's a hit-girl!

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tragik
01-02-2005

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I think it's about a female con artist who is very sly and comes off with all the luxyries and life. She seems very well cultured and classy and she uses unsuspecting rich men for their money, etc. and then kills them. That's just what I think

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Weave30
01-09-2005

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Up class prostitute, both Brian May and Roger Taylor have said it themselves...

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EatAtJoes121
01-18-2005

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Yup exactly that. It is quite obvious

Guaranteed to blow your mind
Anytime, ooh
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite
Wanna try?
You wanna try

This is probably my favorite Queen song of all time. The only time I ever felt gay in my life was when I did eight minute abs and push ups while listening to Queen's A Night at the Opera. I quickly lit something on fire to restore my manhood.

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Rex Iudeorum
01-23-2005

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Yeah, dyanamite with a laser beam is just trying to say something very dangerous i.e. two weapons spliced together. The "recommended at the price" line among others makes it pretty obvious that it's about a high class prostitue. Kruschev and Kennedy might just represent problems/occurances int he world, and how the sex with this certain high-class prostitue is a "remedy" for such things.

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Tobb555
02-06-2005

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This song has the greatest guiter solo on earth in it

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G_Yarm
02-11-2005

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I had thought this was a James Bond-esque bad girl...but a closer inspection of the lyrics makes it look like a prostitute. I dunno, maybe Freddie wanted to leave it to interpretation, because I still like my bad girl theory, and the bit with the laser beams is evidence for me.

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patronise
02-14-2005

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well, I just remember what the Freddie Mercury impersonist said at a Queen tribute band concert said - "a song full of creatures of the night and wickedness"

well, it was probably nothing like that, but whatever he said, it was cool!

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mercury_girl86
03-06-2005

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I thought it was about an upper class hooker too but I was watching a documentary about it (not sure how reliable it was...) and apparently Fred wrote it about this guy called Peter Freestone, or "Phoebe" (his nickname)

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ElKarmaScaramouche
03-22-2005

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one verse is on drugs, the other is a prostitute and the double life they live. how one life is glamourous, and the other is the true wicked life. the chorus is about the drugs and the effects it has on the person and how it rubs off on someone else. therefore its about a crackwhore....or a transvestite. makes sense either way

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llewlyn
03-30-2005

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Peter Freestone was one of Freddie's best friends, and took care of Fred most of his life (butler, tea-maker), even to the very last moment. So, um, probably not the Killer Queen. :).

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stoolhardy
12-09-2005

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I always though the following lines:

"Perfume came naturally from Paris
For cars she couldn't care less"

Were actually:

"But she came naturally from Paris"
"For that she couldn't care less"

But I guess the posted lyrics make more sense. There are a lot of big words in this song that are hard to pick out in casual listening. Great imagery though. Yeah, I wanna try.

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Lizardking1971
12-14-2005

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I was reading this book with interviews from all these classic rock bands about what this song means and Freddy said that this song was about a high class hooker. It just goes to show no matter how "classy" or rich someone is they can still be skanks... I agree with rexiudeorum with the whole remedy bit

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DynamicTension
01-14-2006

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I personally believed the song to be about a woman who is a mistress among many of the wealthy and therefore she gets whatever she wants. She isn't a force to go against because she's got such influence among the higher-ups.

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psa09140
01-20-2006

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This is easy! Killer Queen is about Christine Keeler:get it? (Keeler - Killer) Hence the reference to Khruschchev & Kennedy. Check it out & you'll see what Freddie was trying to say. Currently teaching a '60s college course & was planning to use the lyrics as a class assignment. Saw all the comments & had to write. Great song, too!

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TaytorTot
01-26-2006

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I love this song. The way he sings it it so appealing, especially, for some reason (for me at least), "Caviar and Ciggarettes". I think it may be about a hooker, but I'm not so sure, because...uhm, it's QUEEN...if you get my reference. But then again...eh, never mind. Kick ass song. My favorite by Queen.

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samgrindleby
02-05-2006

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Probably a stupid meaning, but anyway... I always thought it was about drugs (which Freddie Mercury knew a lot about, remember) - with lines like 'Wanna try?', 'Little man from China' (a sort of contrived smuggling connection?) and the whole atmosphere of extravagant self-destruction. All the stuff about 'Guaranteed to blow your mind', 'insatiable an appetite' and 'recommended at the price' kind of ties in as well - on the other hand, it ties in just as well with the prostitute theory. Since Freddie Mercury was experienced in both, it could have been deliberately designed to be ambigous.

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Antoinette
02-09-2006

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AWESOME SONG.
definately about a high classed prostitute. a transexual I think "Then again incidentally, if you're that way inclined"
in the 70's "that way inclined" ment gay. Still does except for the uber politically correct.
Have you ever seen the SNL skit with Christopher Walkin and the short brown haired guy dressed as a transexual stripper named "MANGO"
yeah.. this song to me is about a MANGO like person. Someone said it might be about a friend he had for a long time that lived with him and served him tea? all the way till he died? If i was rich and gay and famous i would have someone like MANGO serve me tea.. come to think of it, I might even if I wasn't gay.
incidentally, I just got a cat this weekend.. I think I'll name it Mango...

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akanawha
03-10-2006

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A legendary song that got me hooked on Queen so many years ago. I heard this song and was like this is the most unique music I ever heard. It still sounds great today. Remarkable lyrics that keep you guessing. I will still listen to Queen when I am old and gray. I love them.

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WB4Charmed
03-11-2006

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In a 1974 interview, Freddie said this: "It's about a high class call girl. I'm trying to say that classy people can be whores as well. That's what the song is about, though I'd prefer people to put their interpretation upon it - to read into it what they like." So, if you want to think it's about homosexuality or transvestites, or whatever, go right ahead. (the interview is at: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stadium/5025/NME1.html for anyone who's interested.)

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skibunnie545
03-11-2006

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nothing to do with homosexuals, people.....it's about a high class prostitute.

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