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Freddie Mercury - My Love Is Dangerous
Identifier
022428
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Freddie Mercury – His Life in his own Words [compiled by Greg Brooks and Simon Lupton]
I'm possessed by love! Isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there is always an element of humour at the end.
I once wrote a song called My Love Is Dangerous [1985). I feel that maybe that’s what my love is - dangerous. I haven't actually analysed myself, but after all these years I just feel I'm not a very good partner for anybody and I think that's what my love is. My love is dangerous. Who wants their love to be safe anyway? Can you imagine writing a song called 'My Love Is Safe'? It would never sell.
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I'm a human being. I'd like people to recognise the fact that I'm a human being. It's like I'm handicapped, because people immediately go for so-called stage persona. No-one loves the real me. Inside, they're all in love with my fame and stardom. Therefore I have to virtually fight. Most of the time it works against me. I want a relationship, but I feel I have to fight that all the time. It's like I created a monster. I have to find somebody to accept that, in terms of a relationship, but it's very hard. You try to segregate the two and it's not easy - it's like two sides of a coin. There have been romances in my life that have gone wrong and it is very hard to find someone genuine.
You can't tell whether they want you or Freddie Mercury the pop star…and he's someone quite different!
A description of the experience
"My Love Is Dangerous"
My love is dangerous, dangerous, my love is dangerous,
Always make you bleed, always makes you bleed,
Always make you bleed - love is dangerous.
Don't follow in my footsteps, you don't belong to me
You only make a mistake, don't try and understand me,
Don't try and understand me, all I'm trying to say -
My love is dangerous, dangerous, love is dangerous
Make everybody cry, everybody cry
Everybody cry - love is dangerous.
Don't waste your time with loving, love don't work for me
Don't try to show your feelings
Step carefully - step carefully, all I'm trying to say:
My love is dangerous, because I'm your enemy
Watch your step carefully
'cause I know, I know, I know, I know, I know me
Dangerous, no can give you guarantee, I'm your one day ecstasy
Next day no
Dangerous, ooo dangerous, Love is dangerous,
Love is dangerous, love is dangerous,
All I'm really trying to say to you - love is dangerous
No go play fire with me - fire dance for me
You no can take a piss-take
Don't go criticise me, no go analyse me,
All I'm trying to say -
My love is dangerous, because I'm your enemy
Watch your step carefully
'cause I know, I know, I know, I know, I know me
Dangerous, no can give you guarantee, I'm your one day ecstasy
Next day no
Dangerous, dangerous, my love is dangerous
Always make you bleed
Always make you bleed
Always make you bleed
love is............