Queen - No One But You (Only The Good Die Young)
"No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young)" is a song recorded by the remaining three members of the British rock band Queen following the death of the lead singer Freddie Mercury.
Guitarist Brian May – the writer of the song – and drummer Roger Taylor share lead vocals.
The song was released on the album Queen Rocks and it was also released as a single.
The song was released on the album Queen Rocks and it was also released as a single.
The impetus for the song came after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997, but is largely a eulogy to Freddie Mercury.
It was originally written for a potential Brian May solo project, which eventually evolved into the album Another World. He sent the demo of the song to Roger Taylor, who according to Taylor himself, put it in a drawer and forgot about it.
After eventually hearing it, Taylor suggested that it could be turned into a Queen song. Roger Taylor's contribution was to change the tempo and make the lyrics less specific to Mercury.
The song features only the remaining three members of Queen, the final new recording to be released under the Queen name alone.
This is also the last new recording to feature John Deacon, who subsequently retired from public life.
Music video
The music video was directed by the DoRo and filmed at Bray Studios, London on 29 November 1997, the home of Hammer Horror in the 1960s and also where the Rocky Horror Picture Show was recorded.
It was shot in black and white, and featured only the three remaining members of Queen in the studio.
A second version is a completely different edit, featuring a new ending and sepia tinted footage of Freddie through all his years with the band. This version was featured on Queen Rocks: The Video in 1998 and on Greatest Flix III VHS in 1999.
The lyrics:
A hand above the water
An angel reaching for the sky
Is it raining in Heaven
Do you want us to cry?
And everywhere the broken hearted
On every lonely avenue
No one could reach them
No one but you
One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flying too close to the sun
And life goes on
Without you
Another tricky situation
I get the drownin' in the Blues
And I find myself thinkin'
Well, what would you do?
Yes, it was such an operation
Forever paying every due
Hell, you made a sensation
You found a way through
One by one
Only the good die young
They're only flyin' too close to the sun
We'll remember
Forever
And now the party must be over
I guess we'll never understand
The sense of your leaving
Was in the way it was planned?
And so we grace another table
And raise our glasses one more time
There's a face at the window
And I ain't never, never sayin' goodbye
And it's one by one
Only the good die young
They're only flyin' too close to the sun
Cryin' for nothing
Cryin' for no one
No one but you
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