Album: Queen (1973)

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• Ah-ah
  
  In the land where horses born with eagle wings
  And honey bees have lost their stings
  There's singing forever (ooh, yeah)
  Lion's den with fallow deer
  And rivers made from wine so clear
  Flow on and on forever
  Dragons fly like sparrows through the air
  And baby lambs where Samson dares
  To go on, on, on, on
  (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)
  
  My fairy king (he rules the air and turns the tides)
  He rules the air and can see things that are not there
  For you and me to see (ooh, yeah)
  My fairy king (he guides the winds)
  He can only do right and nothing wrong
  
  (Ah-ah)
  Then came man to savage in the night
  To run like thieves and to kill like knives
  To take away the power from the magic hand
  To bring about the ruin to the promised land
  (Ooh, ooh)
  
  They turn milk into sour, like the blue in the blood of my veins
  (Why can't you see it?)
  Fire burnin' in hell with the cry of the screaming pain
  (Son of Heaven set me free and let me go)
  Sea turns dry, no salt from sand
  And seasons fly no helping hand
  Teeth don't shine like pearls for poor men's eyes (no more)
  
  Someone, someone
  Has drained the color from my wings
  Broken my fairy circle ring
  And shamed the king in all his pride
  Changed the winds and wronged the tides
  Oh, Mother Mercury (Mercury)
  Look what they've done to me (yeah)
  I cannot run, I cannot hide Writer/s: Freddie Mercury
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 13

• Chloe AndersonI can’t believe they were able to fit different sections into a song that’s only 4 mins.
• Jt from Minneapolis, MinnesotaI love this song, and March of the Black Queen. They’re beautiful and haunting, and I think they’re both stories of sexual assault covered in heavy r, (also ‘Liar’ and ‘Great King Rat’). The reference to Browning is two things, one, an allusion to childhood and two, it”s from “The Pied Piper”, who used his music to lead away the children (I.e. ‘seduce’) them. That paired with lines like ‘someone had drained the color from my wings; broken my fairy circle ring” and “Mother Mercury, Look what they’ve done to me.” A beautiful paradise (the innocence of childhood) destroy by men who “ravage in the night” and “rob like thieves and kill like knives”. I could be way off base, but this is what I believe.
• Bill from LodiWhat great lyrics!
• Joe from Grants Pass, OrFreddie -- Great musician all around , can't deny it !!!
  
• Joe from Grants Pass, OrThat was Roger doing the opening vocals, and subsequent high vocals .
• Steve from Hockessin, DeWithout this song & March Of The black Queen, there might not have been a Boheiman Rhapsody. MFK & MOTBQ began the experimentation with large amounts of over-dubs, the piano & guitar working in unison. Various styles & melodies combined to create one song. Simply brillant. This is a stand out on the first Queen album.
  ...Someone has drained the color from my wing, broken my fairy circle ring. Shamed the king & all his pride.
  Changed the winds & wronged the tides. Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me. I can not run, I can not hide...
  One of the best verses Freddie ever wrote. Period!
• Blaze from Hendersonville, TnOh, Stefano, you just nailed it.... Fred's little world... How perfect.
• Nikki from Perth, AustraliaYeah I think Freddie had been going by Mercury for a while before that song, but the line "mother Mercury" was intended to be about/directed to his mother, so just before the album was released Freddie officially changed his name from Farrokh Bulsara to Freddie Mercury.
• AnonymousI was on a Queen pen pals list in the mid 90s and this girl from Rome always called me her fairy king. I got at lot of sh!t from my fellow band mates because of it. Lol......... Hmmm? At least I think it was a girl. Anywhoo Great song. I also like March Of The Black Queen.
• Sneha from Nashville, TnThe beginning lyrics of this song are borrowed from the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
  "And their dogs outran our fallow deer,
  And honey-bees had lost their stings,
  And horses were born with eagles' wings"
• Stefano from Rome, ItalySheer poetry lyrics. Several prog rock songs of the early 70s used to have fantasy subjects, and nearly all of Fraddie's lyrics of the first two Queen albums are into this attribute. You can find lands where horses bear with eagle wings, fairy tales from the kingdom of Rhye where the Seven Seas lead, his enemy Great King Rat swearing every second word and waterbabies singing in a lily pool delight. Really awesome.
• Daniel from Springfield, MaA bit eccentric even by Queen standards, and certainly not for casual takers-in of Queen's catalog, but I have many fond childhood memories of this, and all the songs on this obscure record and now contribute this to my present insanity, and dementedness. Just imagine the effects and my naive, 7-year old mind-"My Fairy King!", "uh, yes nurse, we'll administer the Thorazine shot immediately!"Great Jam though.
  
• Johnny from Los Angeles, CaI guess it wouldn't really make sense for "mercury" to be a last name but I always assumed it was.

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