READ MORE "But it was unwritten law among us in those days that the real core of a song lyric was a private matter for the composer, whoever that might be. So I still respect that." However, the best way to understand the song is through the words of the man himself, who said in an interview in Sydney in 1985: “We had so much hunger. We had so much that we wanted to bring out, it was all sort of kept in. “So we had all kinds of songs and Bohemian Rhapsody happened to be, it was basically three songs that I wanted to put out and I just put the three together.