Flick of the Wrist
Queen Lyrics
Dislocate your spine if you don't sign he says
I'll have you seeing double (double)
Mesmerize you when he's tongue-tied
Simply with those eyes, ooh ooh ooh
Synchronize your minds and see
The beast within him rise
Don't look back
Don't look back
It's a rip-off
Blow him a kiss and you're mad, ooh ooh ooh ooh
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 saying
If not you'll lie in knee-deep trouble
Prostitute yourself he says
Castrate your human pride, ooh ooh 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, aah, aah, aah
Work my fingers to my bones
I scream with pain
I still make no impression
Seduce you with his money-make machine
Cross-collateralize, (big-time money money)
Reduce you to a muzak-fake machine
Then the last goodbye
It's a rip-off
Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby
Blow him a kiss and you're mad, ooh ooh ooh ooh
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
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Written by: Freddie Mercury
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"Flick of the Wrist" , written by Freddie Mercury, was the Double A-side of "Killer Queen" but it was much less promoted and therefore not as popular outside the Queen fandom. The song includes Mercury singing octave vocals.
When Brian May returned to work having recovered from a bout of acute hepatitis, he had not heard the song before he recorded his guitar and backing vocals.
It is a heavy track with quite dark lyrics and an aggressive tone Read Full Bio"Flick of the Wrist" , written by Freddie Mercury, was the Double A-side of "Killer Queen" but it was much less promoted and therefore not as popular outside the Queen fandom. The song includes Mercury singing octave vocals.
When Brian May returned to work having recovered from a bout of acute hepatitis, he had not heard the song before he recorded his guitar and backing vocals.
It is a heavy track with quite dark lyrics and an aggressive tone, something that may seem unusual for later Queen-songs, but in the early days (especially on Queen II) Mercury and May would often write grim songs, such as "Great King Rat" and "Son and Daughter".
At about 1:14 - 1:16, the line "Baby you've been had" can be heard. This line is also the opening to the next song on the album, "Lily of the Valley", making a 3-song overlap (Tenement Funster into Flick Of The Wrist, Flick Of The Wrist into Lily Of The Valley).
Dream Theater covered the entire three-song arch of Sheer Heart Attack ("Tenement Funster," "Flick Of The Wrist" and "Lily Of The Valley") for their album Black Clouds & Silver Linings and it appears on the Special Edition release.
When Brian May returned to work having recovered from a bout of acute hepatitis, he had not heard the song before he recorded his guitar and backing vocals.
It is a heavy track with quite dark lyrics and an aggressive tone Read Full Bio"Flick of the Wrist" , written by Freddie Mercury, was the Double A-side of "Killer Queen" but it was much less promoted and therefore not as popular outside the Queen fandom. The song includes Mercury singing octave vocals.
When Brian May returned to work having recovered from a bout of acute hepatitis, he had not heard the song before he recorded his guitar and backing vocals.
It is a heavy track with quite dark lyrics and an aggressive tone, something that may seem unusual for later Queen-songs, but in the early days (especially on Queen II) Mercury and May would often write grim songs, such as "Great King Rat" and "Son and Daughter".
At about 1:14 - 1:16, the line "Baby you've been had" can be heard. This line is also the opening to the next song on the album, "Lily of the Valley", making a 3-song overlap (Tenement Funster into Flick Of The Wrist, Flick Of The Wrist into Lily Of The Valley).
Dream Theater covered the entire three-song arch of Sheer Heart Attack ("Tenement Funster," "Flick Of The Wrist" and "Lily Of The Valley") for their album Black Clouds & Silver Linings and it appears on the Special Edition release.
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Antônio Peixoto Junior
This is "Death on Two Legs" older sister.
it's like the same but different
A couple of thongs about these Management directed tracks: as far as i know there were three songs written about their contractual problems with the Sheffield bros. Them being: Flick Of The Wrist, In The Lap Of The Gods (revisited) and Death On Two Legs. Flick and Death both have nefarious/ominous riffs underscoring the main theme of the songs while Lap sounds more like a goodbye letter to their mgmt. All three were written by Freddie, all three use heavy riffs and all three mention someone trying to get the better of them. Freddie was pissed off and rightly so, what the Sheffield bros were doing to them was not right.
Curtis Foster
yes
sillyname396
this was written about their previous label and it was under the label they wrote DOTL about
Miriam Diaz Martinez
Yessssss
Real Mr Jangoon
@Julio San Jose exactly, this is the OLDER sister
1 and 1 Hhh
Every song from the 70s Queen is pure gold
Ava Regenschein
Every Queen-Song is pure gold
Pepsi Doggo
@Bigbertha 123 Get Down Make Love was just...Weird
Bigbertha 123
I wouldn't go that far. There are a couple dull Brian May songs, Get Down Make Love sucks, Funny How Love Is feels insanely out of place on Queen II, and there are some other weak ones.