Recorded July to September 1974 at Trident, Wessex, Rockfield and
Air Studios
Hollywood rerelease: 5 March 1991 (digitally remastered by Kevin
Metcalfe)
Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen
Engineered by Mike Stone
Cover
Concept by Queen
Roger Taylor: Drums, Vocals, Percussion, Screams
Freddie
Mercury: Vocals, Piano, Jangle Piano, Vocal Extravaganzas
John Deacon: Bass
Guitar, Double Bass, Acoustic Guitar
Brian May: Guitars, Vocals, Piano, Genuine
George Formby Ukelele-Banjo
1. Brighton Rock [5:08]
2. Killer Queen [2:57]
3.
Tenement Funster [2:48]
4. Flick Of The Wrist [3:46]
5. Lily Of The Valley
[1:43]
6. Now I'm Here [4:10]
7. In The Lap Of The Gods [3:20]
8. Stone
Cold Crazy [2:12]
9. Dear Friends [1:07]
10. Misfire [1:50]
11. Bring
Back That Leroy Brown [2:13]
12. She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes)
[4:08]
13. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited [3:43]
Hollywood CD bonus
track:
Stone Cold Crazy (1991 remix, Michael Wagener)
1. Brighton
Rock (May)
Happy little day Jimmy went away
Met his little Jenny on a
public holiday
A happy pair they made so decorously laid
'Neath the gay
illuminations all along the promenade
It's so good to know there's still a
little magic in the air
I'll weave my spell
Jenny will you stay tarry
with me pray
Nothing 'ere need come between us
Tell me love what do you
say?
Oh no I must away to my mum in disarray
If my mother should discover
how I spent my holiday
It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air
I'll
say farewell
Oh rock of ages do not crumble
Love is breathing still
Oh
lady moon shine down
A little people magic if you will
Jenny pines away
writes a letter ev'ry day
We must ever be together
Nothing can my love erase
Oh
no I'm compromised
I must apologize if my lady should discover
How I spent
my holidays
2. Killer Queen (Mercury)
She keeps Moet and Chandon
in her pretty cabinet
'Let them eat cake' she says
Just like Marie Antoinette
A
built in remedy for Khrushchev and Kennedy
And anytime an invitation you can
decline
Caviar and cigarettes well versed in etiquette
Extr'ordinarily nice
She's
a killer queen gunpowder gelatine
Dynamite with a lazer beam
Guaranteed
to blow your mind
Recommended at the price
Insatiable an appetite wanna
try?
To avoid complications
She never kept the same address
In conversation
she spoke just like a baroness
Met a man from China went down to Geisha Minah
Then
again incidentally if you're that way inclined (she's a killer queen)
Perfume
came naturally from Paris (naturally)
For cars she couldn't care less
Fastidious
and precise
She's a killer queen gunpowder gelatine
Dynamite with a lazer
beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Recommended at the price
Insatiable
an appetite wanna try?
Drop of a hat she's as willing as a playful as a
pussy cat
Then momentarily out of action
Temporarily out of gas
To absolutely
drive you wild - wild
She's out to get you
She's a killer queen gunpowder
gelatine
Dynamite with a lazer beam
Guaranteed to blow your mind
Recommended
at the price
Insatiable an appetite wanna try?
Wanna try
3.
Tenement Funster (Taylor)
My new purple shoes
Bin amazin' the people
next door
And my rock'n'roll forty fives
Bin enragin' the folks on the lower
floor
I got a way with the girls on my block
Try my best to be a real
individual
And when we go down to smokies and rock
They line up like it's
some kind of ritual
Oh give me a good guitar
And you can say that my hair's
a disgrace
Or just find me an open car
I'll make the speed of light outa
this place
I like the good things in life
But most of the best things
ain't free
It's the same situation just cuts like a knife
When you're young
and you're poor and you're crazy
Young and you're crazy...
Oh give me
a good guitar
And you can say that my hair's a disgrace
Or just find me
an open car
I'll make the speed of light outa this place
4. Flick
Of The Wrist (Mercury)
Dislocate your spine if you don't sign
He says
I'll have you seeing double
Mesmerize you when he's tongue tied
Simply with
those eyes ooh
Synchronize your minds and see
The beast within him rise
Don't
look back don't look back
It's a rip off
Flick of the wrist and you're dead
baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad
Flick of the wrist he'll eat your heart
out
A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head
He's taken an arm and
taken a leg
All this time honey baby you've been had
Intoxicate your
brain with what I'm sayin'
If not you'll lie in knee deep trouble
Prostitute
yourself he says
Castrate your human pride ooh
Sacrifice your leisure days
Let
me squeeze you 'till you've dried
Don't look back don't look back
It's a
rip off
Work my fingers to my bones
I scream with pain I still make no
impression
Seduce you with his money make machine
Cross collateralise big
time money money
Reduce you to a muzak fake machine
Then the last goodbye
Flick
of the wrist and you're dead baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad
Flick of
the wrist he'll eat your heart out
A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the
head
He's taken an arm and taken a leg
All this time honey baby you've been
had
5. Lily Of The Valley (Mercury)
I am forever searching high
and low
But why does ev'ryone tell me no
Neptune of the seas an answer for
me please
The lily of the valley doesn't know
I lie in wait with open
eyes
I carry on thru' stormy skies
I follow ev'ry course my kingdom for
a horse
But each time I grow old
Serpent of the Nile relieve me for a while
And
cast me from your spell and let me go
Messenger from seven seas has flown
To
tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne
Wars will never cease
Is there
time enough for peace?
The lily of the valley doesn't know
6. Now
I'm Here (May)
Here I stand (here I stand..)
Look around around around
around
(Around around around around..)
But you won't see me (you won't see
me..)
Now I'm here (now I'm here..)
Now I'm there (now I'm there..)
I'm
just a just a new man
Yes you made me live again
A baby I was when you
took my hand
And the light of the night burned bright
And the people all
stared didn't understand
But you knew my name on sight
Whatever came of
you and me?
America's new bride to be
Don't worry baby I'm safe and sound
Down
in the dungeon just Peaches and me
Don't I love her so?
Yes she made me
live again Yeah!
A thin moon me in the smoke screen sky
Where the beams
of your love light chase
Don't move don't speak don't feel no pain
With
the rain running down my face
Your matches still light up the sky
And many
a tear lives on in my eye
Down in the city just Hoople and me
Don't I love
him so don't I love him so?
Whatever comes of you and me
I love to leave
my memories with you
Now I'm here (now I'm here.)
Think I'll stay around
around around
(Around around around around..)
Down in the city just you
and me
(Down in the city just you and me..)
Don't I love you so?
Go
Go Go Little Queenie
7. In The Lap Of The Gods (Mercury)
Ah ah
ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Ah ah ah
I live
my life for you
Think all my thoughts with you and only you
Anything you
ask I do for you
I touch your lips with mine
But in the end I leave it to
the lords
Leave it in the lap of the gods
What more can I do?
Leave it
in the lap of the gods
I leave it to you
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Leave
it in the lap of the gods
I want you to
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Leave
it in the lap of the gods
Leave it in the lap of the gods
Lap of the gods
Lap
of the gods
Lap of the gods
Lap of the gods
Lap of the gods
Lap of
the gods
8. Stone Cold Crazy (May, Mercury, Taylor & Deacon)
Sleeping
very soundly on a Saturday morning
I was dreaming I was Al Capone
There's
a rumour going round
Gotta clear outa town
I'm smelling like a dry fish
bone
Here come the law gonna break down the door
Gonna carry me away once
more
Never never I never want it anymore
Gotta get away from this stone
cold floor
Crazy stone cold crazy you know
Rainy afternoon I gotta blow
a typhoon
And I'm playing on my slide trombone
Anymore anymore cannot take
it anymore
Gotta get away from this stone cold floor
Crazy stone cold crazy
you know
Walking down the street
Shooting people that I meet
With
my rubber Tommy water gun
Here come the deputy
He's gonna come and get me
I
gotta get me up and run
They got the sirens loose
I ran right outa juice
They're
gonna put me in a cell
If I can't go to heaven
Will they let me go to hell?
Crazy
stone cold crazy you know
9. Dear Friends (May)
So dear friends
Your
love has gone
Only tears to dwell upon
I dare not say
As the wind must
blow
So a love is lost
A love is won
Go to sleep and dream again
Soon
your hopes will rise
And then from all this gloom
Life can start anew
And
there'll be no crying soon
10. Misfire (Deacon)
Don't you misfire
fill me up
With the desire to carry on
Don't you know honey that love's
a game
It's always a hit or miss
So take your aim
Got to hold on tight
Shoot
me out of sight
Don't you misfire fill me up
With the desire to carry on
Don't
you misfire fill me up
With the desire to carry on
Your gun is loaded
And
pointing my way
There's only one bullet
So don't delay
Got to time it
right
Fire me through the night
Come on take a shot
Fire me higher
Don't
you miss this time
Please don't misfire
Misfire
11. Bring Back
That Leroy Brown (Mercury)
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown
Yeah!
Bring back bring back gotta ring that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Bet your
bottom dollar bill you're a playboy Yeah Yeah!
Daddy cool with a ninety dollar
smile (ooh Yeah)
Took my money out of gratitude
And he git right out of
town
Well I gotta getty up steady up shoot him down
Gotta hit that latitude
babe
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Bring back
bring back gotta ring that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Big bad Leroy Brown he got
no common sense
No no he got no brains but he sure gotta lotta style
Can't
stand no more in this here jail
I gotta rid myself of this sentence
Gotta
get out of the heat step into the shade
Gotta get me there dead or alive babe
Wooh
wooh big bad Leroy
Wooh wooh wooh wooh
Big bad Leroy Brown
Bring back
bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Bring back bring back gotta bring
back Leroy Brown Yeah!
Big mama Lulu Belle she had a nervous breakdown
She
had a nervous breakdown
Leroy's taken her honey chile away
But she met him
down at the station Oohoo
Put a shotgun to his head and unless I be mistaken
This
is what she said
Big bad big boy big bad Leroy Brown
I'm gonna get that
cutie pie
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Big bad
caused a mighty fine sensation Yeah Yeah!
Gone and got himself elected President
We
want Leroy for President
Next time you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather
This
time like a shimmy shammy leather
He's a big boy bad boy Leroy
I don't care
where you get him from
Bring that big bad Leroy back
Want him back
12.
She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes) (May)
I love she makes me
She
is my heart
She is my love
She is my love
I know you're jealous of
her
She makes me need
She is my love
She is my love
Who knows who
she'll make me
As I lie in her cocoon
But the world will surely heal my
ills
I'm warm and terrified
She makes me so
I know the day I leave
her
I'd love her still
She is my love
She is my love
Who knows
where my dreams will end
I'll follow as they grow
But the world will know
How
long I'll take
And if I'm very slow
She makes me so
She is my love
She
is my love
13. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited (Mercury)
It's
so easy but I can't do it
So risky but I gotta chance it
It's so funny there's
nothing to laugh about
My money that's all you want to talk about
I can
see what you want me to be
But I'm no fool
It's in the lap of the gods
Wo
wo la la la
I can see what you want me to be
But I'm no fool
No beginning
there's no ending
There's no meaning in my pretending
Believe me life goes
on and on and on
Forgive me when I ask you where do I belong
You say I (you
can do it) can't (you can do it
You can go and) set you free from me
But
that's not true
It's in the lap of the gods
Wo wo la la la
I can see
what you want me to be
But I'm no fool
It's in the lap of the gods
Wo
wo la la la wo
Wo wo la la wo wo wooh
But that's not true
It's in the
lap of the gods
Wo wo la la la wo
Wo wo la la wo wo wooh
But I'm no fool
It's
in the lap of the gods
Wo wo la la la wo
Wo wo la la wo wo wooh
It's
in the lap of the gods
Wo wo la la la wo
Wo wo la la wo wo wooh
But I'm
no fool
It's in the lap of the gods
Wo wo la la la wo
Wo wo la la wo
wo wooh.