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Our eurdite and knowledgeable host for Song Lyric Sunday, Jim Adams has set us a cerebal prompt: “This week the theme is to find a song related to Sigmund Freud’s id exhibiting instinctual drives that seek immediate pleasure or gratification without regard for reality. “

My apologies I do not have much time this week so a quick wink and kiss to you all here’s my choice. …. Let’s face it Freddie was the king of Freud’s me me I, I pleasure syndrome.

I have chosen Queen’s I want it all.

“I Want It All” is a song by British rock band Queen, featured on their 1989 studio album, The Miracle. Written by guitarist and vocalist Brian May (but credited to Queen) and produced by David Richards, it was released as the first single from the album on 2 May 1989. “I Want It All” reached number three on the singles charts of the United Kingdom, Finland, Ireland and New Zealand, as well as on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. Elsewhere, it peaked at number two in the Netherlands and charted within the top 10 in Australia, Belgium, Germany, Norway and Switzerland. With its message about fighting for one’s own goals it became an anti-apartheid protest song in South Africa.

I want it all (yeah, yeah)
I want it all
I want it all, and I want it now

Adventure seeker on an empty street
Just an alley creeper, light on his feet
A young fighter screaming, with no time for doubt
With the pain and anger can’t see a way out
“It ain’t much I’m asking”, I heard him say
“Gotta find me a future, move out of my way”
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now

Listen all you people, come gather ’round
I gotta get me a game plan, gotta shake you to the ground
But just give me, huh, what I know is mine
People, do you hear me? Just gimme the sign
It ain’t much I’m asking, if you want the truth
Here’s to the future, for the dreams of youth

I want it all (give it all, I want it all)
I want it all (yeah)
I want it all, and I want it now
I want it all (yes, I want it all)
I want it all (hey)
I want it all, and I want it now

I’m a man with a one track mind
So much to do in one lifetime (people, do you hear me?)
Not a man for compromise and “where’s” and “why’s” and living lies
So I’m living it all, yes, I’m living it all
And I’m giving it all, and I’m giving it all
Oh, ooh, oh-yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

It ain’t much I’m asking, if you want the truth
Here’s to the future
Hear the cry of youth (hear the cry of youth, hear the cry of youth)
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now

I want it all (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now (oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)

And I want it now
I want it, I want it

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Brian May / Freddie Mercury / John Deacon / Roger Taylor

The song was first played live on 20 April 1992, three years after its release, during The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, performed by the three remaining members of Queen, with Roger Daltrey of The Who singing lead vocals and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath playing rhythm guitar. Freddie Mercury himself never performed the song live, as he died in November 1991 from AIDS at the age of 45, and his final performance with Queen was at the end of The Magic Tour, at Knebworth Park on 9 August 1986. The record is sung mainly by Mercury, with May singing backing vocals on the choruses and a solo-and-duet bit with Mercury on the middle eight.

The song, according to John Deacon, was one of only a few which was already written before the band entered the studio in the beginning of 1988 for what would become The Miracle album. According to May, it was the first song they did in the studio, recorded as a live band take without any drum machines or technology (except the sequencer section added later). The song was inspired by May’s conflicted feelings after his breakup with his first wife, Christine Mullen, and his new relationship with Anita Dobson.

“I Want It All” is notably heavy and features themes relating to rebellion and social upheaval. Songwriter May, however, claims that it is about having ambitions and fighting for one’s own goals; because of this, the song became an anti-apartheid song in South Africa and has also been used as a gay rights protest theme and a rallying anthem for Black American youth.

The song was a live favourite, and has been a fixture regularly performed on Queen’s “Queen+” tours, both with Paul Rodgers and subsequently Adam Lambert.

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