Queen
Queen II (1974)
1. Procession
2. Father to Son
3. White Queen (As It Began)
4. Some Day One Day
5. The Loser in the End
6. Ogre Battle
7. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
8. Nevermore
9. The March of the Black Queen
10. Funny How Love Is
11. Seven Seas of Rhye
Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Robin Geoffrey Cable and Queen
Engineered by Mike Stone
Cover Concept by Mick Rock and Queen
Freddie Mercury: vocals, piano, harpsichord
Brian May: guitars, piano, vocals, bells
John Deacon: bass guitar, acoustic guitar
Roger Meddows-Taylor: percussion, vocals
Virtuoso castanets by Roy Thomas Baker... and nobody played synthesizer... again
Released: Friday, 8th March 1974
Higest UK Chart Position: 5
Procession
(Brian May)
Instrumental
Father to Son
(Brian May)
A word in you ear, from father to son
Hear the words that I say
I fought with you, fought on your side
Long before you were born
Joyful the sound, the word goes around
From father to son, to son...
And the voice is so clear, time after time it keeps
Calling you, calling you on
Don't destroy what you see, your country to be
Just keep building on the ground that's been won
Kings will be crowned, and the word goes around
From father to son, to son
Won't you hear us sing our family song
Now we hand it on
But I've heard it all before
Take this letter that I give you
Take it sonny, hold it high
You won't understand a word that's in it
But you'll write it all again before you die
A word in your ear, from father to son
Funny you don't hear a single word I say
But my letter to you will stay by your side
Through the years till the loneliness is gone
Sing if you will
But the air you breath I live to give you
Father to son
Father to, father to, father to son
Joyful the sound, the word goes around
From father to son, to son..
Kings will be crowned, the word goes around
From father to son, to son...(repeat twice)
White Queen (As It Began)
(Brian May)
So sad her eyes
Smiling dark eyes
So sad her eyes
As it began
On such a breathless night as this
Upon my brow the lightest kiss
I walked alone
And all around the air did say
My lady soon will stir this way
In sorrow known
The white queen walks and the night grows pale
Stars of lovingness in her hair
Needing - unheard
Pleading - one word
So sad my eyes
She cannot see
How did thee fare, what have thee seen
The mother of the willow green
I call her name
And 'neath her window have I stayed
I loved the footsteps that she made
And when she came
White Queen how my heart did ache
And dry my lips no word would make
So still I wait
My goddess hear my darkest fear
I speak too late
It's for evermore I wait
Dear friend goodbye
No tears in my eyes
So sad it ends
As it began
Some Day One Day
(Brian May)
You never heard my song before
The music was too loud
But now I think you hear me well
For now we both know how
No star can light our way
In this cloud of dark and fear
But some day, one day...
Funny how the pages turn
And hold us in between
A misty castle waits for you
And you shall be a queen
Today the cloud it hangs over us
And all is grey
But some day, one day...
When I was you and you were me
And we were very young
Together took us nearly there
The rest may not be sung
So still the cloud it hangs over us
And we're alone
But some day, one day...
We'll come home
The Loser in the End
(Roger Taylor)
Mama's gotta problem
She don't know what to say
Her little baby boy has just left home today
She's got to be the loser in the end
She's got to be the loser in the end
Misuse her and you'll lose her as a friend
She's ma on whom you can always depend
Ooh ooh
She's washed and fed, and clothed and cared
For nearly twenty years
And all she gets is "Goodbye Ma"
And the nighttime for her tears
She's got to be the loser in the end
She's got to be the loser in the end
Misuse her and you'll lose her as a friend
She's ma on whom you can always depend
Ooh ooh, ooh
So listen mothers everywhere
To just one mother's son
You'll get forgotten in the end
If you don't let them have their fun
Forget regrets, and just remember
It's not so long since you were young
You're bound to be the loser in the end
You're bound to be the loser in the end
They'll choose their new shoes, that's not far to bend
You're ma on whom they can always depend
Ooh ooh, ooh
Ogre Battle
(Freddie Mercury)
Now once upon a time - an old man told me a fable
When the piper is gone
and the soup is cold on your table
And if the black crow flies
To find a new destination
That is the sign
Come tonight
Come to the ogre sight
Come to ogre battle fight
He gives a great big cry
And he can swallow up the ocean
With a mighty tongue he catches flies
The palm of his hand incredible size
One great big eye
Has a focus in your direction
Now the battle is on
Yeah, yeah, yeah come tonight
Come to the ogre sight
Come to ogre battle fight
The ogre men are still inside
The two way mirror mountain
Gotta keep down right out of sight
You can't see in but they can see out
"Keep a look out"
The ogre men are coming out
From the two way mirror mountain
They're running up behind
And they're coming all about
Can't go east 'cos you gotta go south
Ogre men are going home
And the great big fight is over
Bugle blow, let trumpet cry
Ogre battle lives on for evermore
You can come along
You can come along
Come to ogre battle
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
(Freddie Mercury)
He's a fairy feller
The fairy folk have gathered round
the new moon shine
To see the feller crack a nut at nights noon time
To swing his axe he swears
As it climbs he dares to deliver...
The master stroke
Ploughman, Waggoner Will, and types
Politician with senatorial pipe -
He's a dilly dally-o
Pedagouge squinting, wears a frown
And the satyr peers under lady's gown,
Dirty fellow
What a dirty laddio
Tatterdemalion and a junketeer
There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter -
He's my hero
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
Of his lady friend
The nymph is yellow
"Can we see the master stroke"
What a quaere fellow
Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy
Waiting to hear the sound
And the arch-magician presides
He is the leader
Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan
Mab is the queen
and there's a good apothecary man
Come to say hello
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
Of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow
What a quaere fellow
The ostler stares with hands on his knees
Come on Mr Feller
Crack it open if you please
Nevermore
(Freddie Mercury)
There's no living in my life anymore
The seas have gone dry
And the rain stopped falling
Please don't you cry anymore
Can't you see
Listen to the breeze
Whisper to me please
Don't send me to the path of nevermore
Even the valleys below
Where the rays of the sun
Were so warm and tender
Now haven't anything to grow
Can't you see
Why did you have to leave me
Why did you deceive me
You send me to the path of nevermore
When you say you didn't love me anymore
Nevermore
Nevermore
The March of the Black Queen
(Freddie Mercury)
Do you mean it (x 3)
Why don't you mean it
Why do I follow you and where do you go
You've never seen nothing like it no never in your life
Like going up to heaven and then coming back alive
Let me tell you all about it -
And the world will so allow it
Ooh give me a little time to choose
Water babies singing in a lily pool delight
Blue powder monkeys praying in the dead of night
Here comes the black queen, poking in the pile
Fie fo the black queen, marching single file
Take this, take that, bring them down to size
March to the Black Queen
Put them in the cellar with the naughty boys
A little nigger sugar then a rub-a-dub a baby oil
Black on, black on every fingernail and toe
We've only just begun, begun
Make this, make that, keep making all that noise
March to the Black Queen
Now I've got a belly full
You can be my sugar baby, you can be my honey chile, yes
A voice from behind me reminds me
Spread out your wings, you are an angel
Remember to deliver with the speed of light
A little bit of love and joy
Everything you do bears a will and a why and a wherefore
A little bit of love and joy
In each and every soul lies a man
And very soon he'll deceive and discover
But even till the end of his life, he'll bring a little love
I reign with my left hand, I rule with my right
I'm lord of all darkness, I'm queen of the night
I've got the power - now do the march of the black queen
My life is in your hands, I'll fo and I'll fie
I'll be what you make me, I'll do what you like
I'll be a bad boy, I'll be your bad boy
I'll do the march of the black queen
Walking true to style
She's vulgar 'buse and vile
Fie-fo the black queen tattoos all her piles
She boils and she bakes
and she never dots her "i's"
Forget your singalongs and your lullabies
Surrender to the city of the fireflies
Dance with the devil in beat with the band
To hell will all of you hand in hand
But now it's time to be gone - forever
Forever
Funny How Love Is
(Freddie Mercury)
Funny how love is everywhere just look and see
Funny how love is anywhere you're bound to be
Funny how love is every song in every key
Funny how love is coming home in time for tea
Funny, funny, funny, oh
Funny how love is the end of lies when the truth begins
Tomorrow comes, tomorrow brings
Tomorrow brings love in the shape of things
That's what love is, that's what love is
Funny how love can break your heart so suddenly
Funny how love came tumbling down with
Adam and Eve
Funny how love is running wild and feeling free
Funny how love is coming home in time for tea
Funny, funny, funny
From the earth below to the heavens above
That's how far and funny is love
At any time, anywhere
If you gotta make love do it everywhere
That's what love is, that's what love is
Funny how love is everywhere just look and see
Funny how love is anywhere you're bound to be
Funny how love is every song in every key
Funny how love is when you gotta hurry home
cos you're late for tea
Funny, funny, funny, oh
Tomorrow comes, tomorrow brings
Tomorrow brings love in the shape of things
At any time, anywhere
If you got to make love do it everywhere
That's what love is, that's what love is
Seven Seas of Rhye
(Freddie Mercury)
Fear me you lords and lady preachers
I descend upon your earth from the skies
I command your very souls you unbelievers
Bring before me what is mine
The seven seas of rhye
Can you hear me you peers and privvy counselors
I stand before you naked to the eyes
I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust
I swear that you'll be mine
The seven seas of rhye
Sister - I live and die for you
Mister - Do and I'll die
You are mine, I possess you
I belong to you forever
Storm the master marathon I'll fly through
By flash and thunder fire and I'll survive
I'll survive, I'll survive
Then I'll defy the laws of nature
and come out alive
Then I'll get you
Be gone with you, you shod and shady senators
Give out the good, leave out the bad evil cries
I challenge the might titan and his troubadours
And with a smile
I'll take you to the seven seas of rhye...
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside
Oh I do like to be beside the sea
Oh I do like to stroll along the prom prom prom
Where the brass bands play tiddley om pom pom
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside
Oh I do like to be beside the sea
When I'm down beside the sea
I'm beside myself with glee
Beside the seaside Beside the sea