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Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Glee
Album: Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals and Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One
Released: June 08, 2010
By: Queen
Sung by: Vocal Adrenaline
Solos: Jesse
Place: 2010 Midwest Regional Championship and The Hospital
Episode: Journey

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is featured in Journey, the twenty second episode of season one. The song is originally by the group Queen from their album A Night at the Opera. It is sung by Jesse St. James with Vocal Adrenaline at Regionals. Vocal Adrenaline wear pink and black during their performance. The performance is intertwined with the birth of Quinn's baby, Beth, by mixing some lyrics with Quinn's pain (for example "let me go"). It is one of the few songs to be performed for the recording length (aside from the mash-up songs).


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Lyrics

Vocal Adrenaline:
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide no escape from reality
Open your eyes look up to the skies and see

Jesse:
I'm just a poor boy I need no sympathy

Vocal Adrenaline:
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low

Jesse (Vocal Adrenaline):
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter
(To me) To me

Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama (ooooooooh) didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow

Jesse with Vocal Adrenaline:
Carry on, carry on

Jesse:
As if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooooooh

Vocal Adrenaline:
Anyway the wind blows

Jesse:
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man

Vocal Adrenaline:
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?
Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o

Jesse:
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me

Vocal Adrenaline:
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

Jesse:
Easy come, easy go,
Will you let me go

Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go

Vocal Adrenaline Girls:
Let him go

Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Bismillah! We will not let you go

Vocal Adrenaline Girls:
Let him go

Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Bismillah! We will not let you go

Vocal Adrenaline Girls:
Let me go

Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Will not let you go

Vocal Adrenaline Girls (Boys):
Let me go (never)

Vocal Adrenaline Boys:
Never let you go

Vocal Adrenaline Girls:
Let me go

Vocal Adrenaline:
O-o-o-o-o
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

Jesse:
Oh mama mia, mama mia

Vocal Adrenaline:
Mama mia let me go

Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me
for me, for me

Jesse:
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters, to me

Vocal Adrenaline:
Anyway the wind blows

Charts

Chart (2010) Peak
position
Canadian Hot 100 68
UK Singles Chart 67
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 84

Trivia

  • The choreography was very grueling for the dancers (one sprained her ankle, one got a concussion, one broke her finger, one did a head-whip into the steadicam), and Jonathan Groff was injured during rehearsal receiving a five-inch scar on his biceps from his dance partner's stiletto.
  • Because of the extensive choreography, many of the dancers were injured. One male dancer lifting a female dancer onto his shoulders even made it into the final cut and can be seen to the right of the screen of him accidentally dropping her.
  • Jane Lynch dubbed the number her favorite of the series.
  • Remained the only song on Glee to be played full length in an episode until Season three, where It's Not Unusual was played in full.
  • Jonathan Groff does not actually play the piano but he learned how to play the song for this episode only.
  • If you look closely the choreography and lyrics mirrored Quinn going into labor. For instance, when the Vocal Adrenaline girls are jumping and landing on their backs, Quinn is lying down on the hospital bed. Also, when Vocal Adrenaline is singing "Let me go!" Quinn screams "Let me go!" right afterwards. Another example, while showing Quinn's Birth, she screams, "No,no,no,no,no!" at the same time as Vocal Adernaline.
  • This was the longest song that Glee has done.
  • As revealed by Rachel in Nationals, this performance was the gold standard for many show choirs for years.
  • This is the second song Vocal Adrenaline has done that is from Queen, the first being Another One Bites the Dust.
  • In Nationals, Jesse claims that he lost 10 pounds during this performance.

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