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Spintunes #14 Challenge: Write a song that is a prequel to an existing Billboard hit. I chose Queen’s “Bohemina Rhapsody,” and decided to mimic the structure and style (as best I could under the time constraints).
lyrics
This is the hard life
No hint of luxury
Learning to survive
In a fixed society
Turning diamonds into coal
I will learn this role
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, I'll try not to be too loud
Just lay back down and stay in bed with Mama
be at peace, be at peace
It’s your son’s burden now
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Sundown, my work is done
Bloody blisters on my hands
Muscles aching like a man
Earned the coins in my pocket
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 can 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 my identity
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
I find that the less that they give means the more that I take
So I’m buying a gun to get by
buying a gun to get by
buying a gun to get by
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