Album: Innuendo (1991)

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• If you're searching out for something
  Don't try so hard
  I you're feeling kind of nothing
  Don't try so hard
  When your problems seem like mountains
  Feel the need to find some answers
  You can leave it for another day
  Don't try so hard
  
  But if you fall and take a tumble
  It won't be far
  If you fail you mustn't grumble
  Thank your lucky stars
  Just savor every mouthful
  And treasure every moment
  When the storms are raging round you
  Stay right where you are
  Oh don't try so hard
  Oh don't take it all to heart
  It's only fools they make these rules
  Don't try so hard
  
  One day you'll be a Sergeant Major
  Oh you'll be so proud
  Screaming out your bloody orders
  Hey but not too loud
  Polish all your shiny buttons
  Dressed as lamb instead of mutton
  But you never had to try
  To stand out from the crowd
  
  Oh what a beautiful world
  Is this the life for me
  Oh what a beautiful world
  It's the simple life for me
  
  Oh don't try so hard
  Oh don't take it all to heart
  It's only fools they make these rules
  Don't try so hard
  Don't try so hard
  Don't try so hard Writer/s: BRIAN MAY, FREDDIE MERCURY, JOHN DEACON, ROGER TAYLOR
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Donna Kusch from CanadMy favourite Queen/Freddie Mercury song.
• Bobbie from Somewhere, UsaI’m going through some stuff at the moment and I swear my subconscious is giving me advice through this album. The other day was a dark day for me and the lyrics for the song Innuendo suddenly just started playing in my head as I was wrestling with some things emotionally….”You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.” I sat down and played the song and just really listened to it…cried a little too. It was the turning point for me and I started to feel better. Now today this song popped into my head while still struggling with some of those same issues, which is why I’m here now looking up stuff about the song. This is why music is so great (especially Queen music). When my brain thinks it doesn’t know the answers to my problems, my heart reminds it that it does. And it does that through music. Music is really the language of the heart. I know I heard that somewhere before and it was meant as a metaphor but I think it’s actually pretty literally true.
• Jens from Wageningen, NetherlandsReally like the vocals of the song, just like the entire album something entirely else.
• Lori from Greenville, ScNot one of favorite's songs fom Innuendo. But I like the reason for the song.
• Jfv from Philadelphia, PaAlthough this song obviously addresses the concept of the sense of relief one might feel when they finally stop worrying about seemingly unimportant things, it also seems to be directed at people that spend a great deal of thought, time and energy in trying to be something they are not, in essence "putting on airs". The clever lyric, "dressed as lamb instead of mutton", poetically makes that point via the use of a simile. ~JFV (5/16/08)~
• Wyatt from Anywhere, United StatesI love this song but its so depressing I can't listen to it much. My ex girlfreind used to say it was about me, probably because she thought I always try too hard. The whole album is great but a little hard to take as I kinda grew up with this band
• Alex from Moscow, EuropeVery good lyrics, they always help me when i'm depressed or worried. One more grand song from Queen. One of the best songs from Innuendo.
• Freddie from Orlando, FlThe Lyrics "Just savor every mouthfull, and treasure every moment-when the storms are raging round you, stay right where you are. Oh, dont try so hard! Oh, dont take it all to heart..." Have proved to be really helpful for me personally. I need to let a lot of things go and just savor what I can... but forget what i cant control.

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