Ominous Ride - Bohemian Burden (SHADOW)

from SpinTunes #14 Round 2 by Spintunes

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Prequel to Bohemian Rhapsody, which charted at #2 on May 9th, 1992
www.billboard.com/music/queen/chart-history/hot-100/song/9470

lyrics

This is the hard life
No hint of luxury
Learning to survive
In a fixed society
Turning diamonds into coal

Papa, go back to sleep
Let the covers keep you warm
You don’t need to greet this dawn
Papa, want to prove to you
I may be young, but now the day has come to fill your shoes

Papa, oooo, trying not to be too loud
Just lay back down and stay at home with Mama
be at peace, be at peace
It’s your son’s burden now

Sundown, my work is done
Bloody blisters on my hands
Muscles aching like a man
Earned the coins in my pocket
In my papa’s way
It isn’t much, but it’s enough to eat for another day
Papa, oooo, I just want to make you proud
Sometimes don’t know if I could ever do enough

Kid: Wander through the market, looking for some supper
Merchants: Beware, the lad in rags, he can’t be trusted
Kid: See, I have the means to pay, you need not be afraid of me
Merchants: He’s causing trouble, rousing rabble, he is too young to know his place
Kid: What does the world around me see?
My caste is not a part of me

Where can I turn, I’ll just keep getting burned
And my heart getting hungry, growling at all the faces
That turn me away
Till I break
And find that the key to survival
is to learn how to take
So I’m buying a gun to get by

It’s your son’s burden now

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from SpinTunes #14 Round 2, released April 23, 2018

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