Instrumental Version Lyrics

Instrumental Version Lyrics
This page includes the lyrics of all tracks released as 'instrumental versions', released by Queen or Freddie. Any tracks not listed here are complete instrumentals, not even including backing vocals.

A number of other Queen instrumentals are available in 'The Eye'

One other song, 'The Immortals' 'No Turning Back', is included on it's own page

A Kind Of Magic
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:14
Lyrics:
It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic
A kind of magic

It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic

Ahhh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooooh
Is this a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic

It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic

Done
This is a kind of magic

Done

Magic
It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic
Magic, magic, magic, magic
Magic
Ha, ha, ha, ha, it's magic

Ha, ha
Yeah, yeah
Wow

Another One Bites The Dust
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:31
Lyrics:
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust, yeah
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

Shoot up

A Winter's Tale
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:48
Lyrics:
(Dreaming)
(Dreaming)
(Dreaming)
(Dreaming)
(Dreaming)
(With the dreams of the world)
(In the palm of your hand)

(Dreaming)
(Dreaming)
(Dreaming)
(Dreaming)
(Dreaming)
(And the dream of the child)
(Is the hope of the, hope of the man)

Ahhh

Bicycle Race
Click here for details of the original version. Length 2:59
Lyrics:
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle

You say black
You say bark
You say shark

You say Rolls
You say God
You say Lord
All I wanna do is

Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
Bicycle

Bicycle races are coming your way
Fat bottomed girls they'll be riding today
On your marks
Get set
Go!

Bicycle race, bicycle race, bicycle race
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
Bicycle, bicycle
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle, (I want a) bicycle race

You say coke
You say John
Hot dog

You say smile
Cartier
Income tax

Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle

Bohemian Rhapsody
Click here for details of the original version. Length 5:52
Lyrics:
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

Ooooh, poor boy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Ooooh, the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me

Anyway the wind blows
Oooohhh, oooh-ooh, oooh-ooh, oooh-ooh, oooh-ooh

Scaramouche, Scaramouche will you do the fandango
Thunderbolts and lightning - very, very frightening me
Gallileo, gallileo
Gallileo, gallileo
Gallileo, figaro - magnifico-o-o-o-oh
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

Bismillah! No - we will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go, let me go
Will not let you go, let me go
Never, never, never, never, never (never let you go)
Never let me go-o-o-o-oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh, oooh yeah, oooh yeah

Anyway the wind blows

Breakthru'
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:07
Lyrics:
When love breaks up
When the dawn lights wakes up
A new life is born (ooooh, ooh, ooh)
Somehow, I have to make this final breakthru
Now

Breakthru
Breakthru

Break

Oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh
Breakthru

Breakthru
Breakthru

Break

Oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh, oooh-oooh
Breakthru

Breakthru

Breakthru

Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Click here for details of the original version. Length 2:41
Lyrics:
This thing called love
Like a baby

Woo, woo
Woo, woo
Oooh, oooh
I kinda like it

Ah-um, ah-um
Oooh, oooh
Ready Freddie

Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Crazy little thing called love
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah

Don't Stop Me Now
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:27
Lyrics:
Don't stop me now
Don't stop me
Having a good time
Having a good time

Supersonic man out of you

Don't stop me now
Don't stop me now
Don't stop me now
Don't stop me now

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, explode

Don't stop me, don't stop me, don't stop me
Don't stop me, don't stop me, oo, oo, oo
Don't stop me, don't stop me, alright
Don't stop me, don't stop me, oooh

Supersonic man out of you

Don't stop me now
Don't stop me now, alright
Don't stop me now, hey, hey
Don't stop me now
Don't wanna stop at all

Fat Bottomed Girls
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:13
Lyrics:
Oh, you gonna take me home tonight?
Oh, down beside that red fire light
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round

Oh, won't you take me home tonight
Oh, down beside your red fire light
Oh, and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round

Oh, you gonna take me home tonight
Oh, down beside that red fire light
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round

Fat bottomed girls

Fat bottomed girls

Flash
Click here for details of the original version. Length 2:41
Lyrics:
Flash, a-ah, saviour of the universe
Flash, a-ah, you saved everyone of us
Reporter: Seemingly there is no reason for these extraordinary inter-galactical upsets (Ming: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)
Dale Arden: What's happening Flash?
Reporter: Only Dr. Hans Zarkoff, formerly of Nasa, has provided any explanation
Flash, a-ah, he's a miracle
Reporter: This morning's unprecedented solar eclipse is no cause for alarm
Flash, a-ah, king of the impossible

He's for everyone of us
Stand for everyone of us
Ahh, ah
Ahh, ah, ahh, ahh, ah

Commander: General Kala, Flash Gordon approaching
General Kala: What do you mean, Flash Gordon approaching? Open fire. All weapons. Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body

Flash, a-ah
Vultan: Gordon's Alive?
Flash, a-ah, you saved everyone of us

Dale Arden: Flash, Flash I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the earth

Flash

Friends Will Be Friends
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:16
The two lines of lyrics at the end are sung by the audience.
Lyrics:
Friends will be friends
Friends will be friends
Friends will be friends

Friends will be friends
Friends will be friends

Friends will be friends
Friends will be friends
Friends will be friends

Friends will be friends
Friends will be friends
Friends will be friends
Friends will be friends

When you're through with life and all hope is lost
Hold out your hand cos' friends will be friends
Right till the end

Hammer To Fall
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:37
Lyrics:
You don't waste no time at all
Comes to you as to us all

Toe your line and play their game
Till one day they call your name

Oh no, oh no
Oh no
Yeah

What the hell we fighting for?
Just got time to say your prayers

Heaven For Everyone
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:39
Lyrics:
This could be heaven for everyone, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, wow
This could be heaven for everyone

I'm Going Slightly Mad
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:22
This version is a complete instrumental, with no lyrics at all.
Lyrics:
Ooooohh
Ooooh, oooh, oooh, oooh, ooh

Ooh-ooh, ah-ah
Ooh-ooh, ah-ah

It's A Hard Life
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:00
Lyrics:
Ahhhh
Oooh
Ending

It's a hard life

It's a long hard fight

Oh, ooh
They

Yeah, ooh yeah
Ooooh
Ahhhh

Hard life

It's a long hard fight

It's a hard life

It's a long hard fight
Ooooh
Love
For love
Love

I Want It All
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:59
Lyrics:
I want it all, yeah, yeah, I want it all
I want it all, and I want it now

I want it all, I want it all, I want it all and I want it now
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all and I want it now

I want it all, I want it all, I want it all and I want it now
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all and I want it

Hear the cry, hear the cry of youth

I want it all, I want it all, I want it all and I want it now
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all and I want it now

And I want it - now
I want it, I want it
Oooh, hot

I Was Born To Love You
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:49
Lyrics:
Ecstasy

An amazing feeling
Comin' through

Born
Born
Born
Born
Born

An amazing feeling
Comin' through

Born to love you

Keep Yourself Alive
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:15
Lyrics:
Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive
All you people

Machines
Click here for details of the original version. Length 5:07
This version is an instrumental remix, and contains excerpts of 'Ogre Battle', 'Going Back' and 'Flash' mixed into it.
Lyrics: (Lyrics in red are from other songs)
(Machines, machines, machines, machines, machines)
(Machines, machines)
(Machines)

Back to humans

(We have no disease, no troubles of mind
We are fighting for peace, no regard for the time
We never cry, we never retreat
We have no conception of love or defeat)

Back to humans
Back to humans
(Back to machines)
(Machines, machines, machines, machines)

Living in a new world
Thinking in the past
Living in a new world
How you gonna last
Machine world

It's a machines world (aaahhh)
Thinking in the past (ah, ah, ah, ah)
Living in a new world
How you gonna last
Machine world

I think I'm going back to the things I learnt so well
Going back to the things I learnt so well
Ha, ha, ha, ha, haa

Go
Flash

Back to humans

Back to humans

One Vision
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:06
Lyrics:
(God works in mysterious ways)
(Mysterious ways) yeah it's a
Wahhh
(undecipherable distorted lyrics) yeah it's a
(undecipherable distorted lyrics)
I
(undecipherable distorted lyrics)

One vision

One world wide vision

I had a dream
But a cold wind blows
And a dark rain falls

One vision

One vision

Woh-woh-woh-woh-woh-woh, yeah

One, one, one, one, one, one, one

One baby, hey
Hey, one baby
One baby
One baby, hey, gimme
One baby

Fried chicken
Vision, vision, vision, vision, vision, vision

Play The Game
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:27
Lyrics:
Easy
Easy
Play the game
Play the game

Let yourself go
Your life
It's a free world
Play the game
Play the game

Love runs from my head down to my toes
Play the game
(Come, come, come, come)
Play the game, play the game
Play the game, play the game

Play the game
Play the game

Your life
It's a free world
Play the game
Play the game

Your life
It's a free world
Play the game
Play the game

Radio Ga Ga
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Available Versions:
1. Instrumental Version (5:56) (on the 12" single only) (instrumental of the album version but replaces the section from 3:31 to 3:51 with the section from 2:04 to 2:23 followed by 'Radio Ga Ga' twice)
2. Karaoke Version (5:35) (instrumental of the album version but fades out 12 seconds earlier)
Lyrics: (the Karaoke version has the additional lyrics in red but the Instrumental version has the additional lyrics in blue)
Radio

Radio

Radio

Radio

You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio (radio)

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo, radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah

You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio (radio)

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo, radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo, radio ga ga
Radio ga ga, radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah

(Radio ga ga)
(Radio ga ga)
(Radio ga ga)

You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio (radio)

Save Me
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:47
Lyrics:
Save me, save me (oooh, oooh, oooh)

Ooooh, oooh, oooh
Oooooh, ooooh, oooh, oooh

Save me
Save me, save me, ohhh

Save me, save me, save me
Yeah
Yeah, save me, save me, oooh

Ooooh, oooh, oooh, oooh

Somebody To Love
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:44
Lyrics:
Can anybody find me somebody to love

Take at a look at yourself in the mirror and cry, yeah, yeah
Oooh, oooh, believing you
I just can't get no relief, Lord
Somebody, somebody
Anybody find me

He works hard
At the end of the day
Goes home, goes home on his own
Down, knees, praise the lord
Oooh, oooh, oooh, Lord
Somebody, please
Anybody find me

He works hard
Everyday - try and I try and I try
Oooooh
Oooooh
Ooooh
He's got nobody left to believe
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Somebody, somebody
Anybody find me
Can anybody find me someone to love

You just keep losing and losing
He's alright, he's alright, yeah, yeah
Oooh, oooh, this prison cell)
One day I'm gonna be free, Lord

Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to low-oh-wow-oh-wow
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody
Somebody find me somebody find me somebody to love
Anybody find me

Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love, find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love

Spread Your Wings
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:20
Lyrics:
Fly with me

The Invisible Man
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:16
Lyrics:
I'm the invisible man
I'm the invisible, visible, visible man
Incredible how you can
See right through me

Freddie Mercury

I'm the invisible man
I'm the invisible man

I'm the invisible man
I'm the invisible man

John Deacon

I'm the invisible man
I'm the invisible man

I'm the invisible man
I'm the invisible man

Girl

Brian May, Brian May

Roger Taylor

The Miracle
Click here for details of the original version. Length 5:10
Lyrics:
We're having a miracle on earth

It's a miracle

For

We're having a miracle on earth

Wonders of this world go on
It's a miracle
It's a miracle
It's a miracle

Wonders of this world go on

Well it's a miracle
It's a miracle
It's a miracle

The miracle
And end to war

That time will come one day you'll see when we can all be friends
That time will come one day you'll see when we can all be friends
That time will come one day you'll see when we can all be friends
That time will come one day you'll see when we can all be friends
That time will come one day you'll see when we can all be friends
That time will come

The Show Must Go On
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:13
This track also appears on 'Queen: The Eye', but the outro lasts for slightly longer.
Lyrics:
I'm learning, I'm learning, I'm learning
Turning, turning, turning

The show must go on
The show must go on
Ooooh-oooh

The show must go on, go on, go on, go on
The show must go on, go on, go on, go on

On with the show
On with the show
The show must go on
Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on

Tie Your Mother Down
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:35
Lyrics:
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight

Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Or you ain't no friend of mine

Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down
Give me all your love tonight

Under Pressure
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:50
Lyrics:
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahhh

Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves

We Are The Champions
Click here for details of the original version. Length 2:56.
This track is the same as the album version, but is missing the first second and also fades out earlier.
Lyrics:
And I need to go on and on and on and on

We are the champions
We are the champions
Ooooh, oooh
We are the champions

And I need to go on and on and on and on

We are the champions
We are the champions
Ooooh, oooh
We are the champions

We are the champions
We are the champions
Ooooh, oooh
We are the champions

We Will Rock You
Click here for details of the original version. Length 2:00
Lyrics:
We will, we will, rock you
We will, we will, rock you

We will, we will, rock you, singing
We will, we will, rock you

We will, we will, rock you, sing it
We will, we will, rock you, everybody
We will, we will, rock you
We will, we will, rock you, alright

Who Wants To Live Forever
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:58
Lyrics:
Who wants to live forever

Who wants to live forever, oooh-ooh-ooh-oooh
Who dares to love forever

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever

You're My Best Friend
Click here for details of the original version. Length 2:50
Lyrics:
Oooh, you make me live
Oooh, you make me live now honey
Oooh, you make me live

Oooh

Oooh, you make me live
Around
Oooh, still come back to you
Girl
I'm happy, happy at home

Oooh, you make me live
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Oooh, you make me live now honey
Oooh, you make me live

Oooh
Oooh, you make me live

I'm happy, happy at home

Ooh, you make me live, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, you're my best friend

Barcelona
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:24
Lyrics:
Oooh, ooh
Ah, ah, ah, ahh

Barcelona
Barcelona
Oooohhh

Barcelona
Barcelona
Oooh, ooh

Ah, ahh, shaking all our lives

Barcelona
Barcelona
Oooh, ooh
Barcelona
Barcelona
Oooh, oooh

Viva

Ah, ah, ahh, ahhh

Guide Me Home
Click here for details of the original version. Length 2:38
Lyrics:
Ooooh
Ooooh
Guide me back

Guide me back

In My Defence
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:55
Lyrics:
Ooohh
Ooh, ooh, ooohh
Oh help me God
Please help me

Love Kills
Click here for details of the original version. Length 4:24
Lyrics:
Ooh, ooh, oooh
Oooooh, ooh, ooh, oooh

Love, love, won't leave you alone

Love, love, won't leave you alone

Kills, kills, kills, kills, kills, kills

Ahhhhhh

Ahhhh

Ooh, ooh, oooh
Ooh, ooh, oooh

Ooh, ooh, oooh
Ooh, ooh, oooh

Ooh, ooh, oooh

Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:59
Lyrics:
Oooh, ooh, oooh, ooooh

Oooohhh
Ooooh, ah, ah, ah, ahh

The Fallen Priest
Click here for details of the original version. Length 5:48
Lyrics:
I'm a man of God
I should not be
Oooh, oh, oh, oh, oooh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ooh

To yourself be true
Be here
Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh

We are mortal
In the hands of Gods who roll the dice

We are mortal
Victims of our weaknesses

(Backwards) I am a man, I am a man, a man of God be true
Yeah, yeah

Yes, we want it all

The Golden Boy
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Lyrics:
And then he sang to her

His rise was irresistible, he grew into the part
Oooh, oooh, simply, suffered for his art
Oooh, oooh, oooh, glittering reward
Oooh, oooh, his work was noticed and adored

I love you for your silence
I love you for your peace
Oooooh
That sweep into my soul
Oooh, ooh, slowly, slowly take control

Yes, he told the truth, oh lord
Yes, he told the truth (and he told the truth)

With - display
Reluctance - this way
Oooh, ooh, ooh, ooooh, and more
She forgot, she forgot reasons, wanted him before

I love you for your passion
I love you for your fire
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-oooh
Burns me in its flame
Ooooh I dare, I dare not name

Releases
Sweep into my soul
Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly
Take control

The Great Pretender
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:25
Lyrics:
Oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh
Oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh

Oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh
Oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh

Oooooh, make believe
Ooooh, ooh, oooh, ooh, oooh

Oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh
Oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh
Oooh, oooh, oh, you see

Ooooh-oh-ooh-oh-oooh
Real, feel, what my heart

Oooh-ooh-oooh-ooh
That you're

Time
Click here for details of the original version. Length 3:20
Lyrics:
Time waits, ooooh, oooh
Time, ooooh, ooh, oooh
Time

You don't need tell you
Gone wrong, gone wrong
What's going on
Ooooh, oooh, oooh
Confided in each other at all

Ooooh time
Time
Ooooh, oooh
No more future at all
Time

Time waits for nobody
Time don't wait for no-one
Ooooh, oooh
No more future at all

Time, time, time, time
Waits for nobody
Waits for nobody
Time, time, time, time
Waits for nobody at all

Time waits for nobody
Time don't wait (don't wait), waits for no-one
Ooooh, oooh
Brand new future for us all
Ahh, ah, ahh, ah
Time

Time don't wait for nobody at all