A few years ago I was surfing the Net when I came across a song called 'Imperial Rhapsody', a brilliant parody of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody sung by characters from the Star Wars trilogy. After finishing Knights of the Old Republic, one of the best games I've ever played, I was inspired to write my own version of the song. It's my first submission here, so I'd be grateful for any reviews/comments.
Disclaimer: The original lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody are by Freddie Mercury, I think. The KotOR characters are the property of Bioware and pretty much everything else Star Wars-related belongs to George Lucas. I'm not making any money out of this (believe it or not).
With that out of the way, may I present...
REPUBLICAN RHAPSODY
Revan: Is this my true life,
Is this just fantasy?
Carth: We're stuck on Taris
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see.
Mission: I'm not a kid now,
Don't need your sympathy
Because some girl ran off with my bro'.
Where they've gone, I don't know.
Anywhere the Hawk goes, doesn't really matter to me,
To me.
(Juhani hides in the grove after her fight with Quatra.)
Juhani: Master, just struck you down
Used my saber with such hate,
I regret – but it's too late.
Master, I had done so well
And now I've gone and thrown it all away.
Master, oooooh,
Didn't mean for you to die
I won't be back again this time tomorrow.
Carry on, carry on
'Cause I've fallen to the Dark Side.
(Jagi challenges Canderous to a duel.)
Canderous: Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody - I've got to go,
Gotta fight that guy to prove I'm not afraid.
Jagi, oooooh,
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish you'd never come back at all.
(They are captured by the Leviathan.)
Carth: I see a huge enormous monster of a ship
Saul Karath's, Saul Karath's, it's a Sith Interdictor!
All: Force attacks and lightning, very very frightening me!
Bastila/Carth: Must distract them (Who'll distract them?)
Must distract them (Who'll distract them?)
Mission, Jolee, Canderous, T3-M4?
(Carth, Revan and Bastila are tortured by Saul.)
Revan: I'm just a Jedi, what do you want with me?
Carth/Bastila: He's just a Jedi, from the Academy!
Spare him his life from this inhumanity!
Revan: We won't tell what we know. You must let us go!
Saul: Not likely. No, I will not let you go!
All: Let us go!
Saul: Not likely. I will not let you go!
All: Let us go!
Saul: Not likely. I will not let you go!
All: Let us go!
Saul: Will not let you go!
All: Let us go!
Saul: Will not let you go!
All: LET US GOOOOOOO!
Saul: No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!
Bastila: I hope they're coming, hope they're coming, hope they come to free us soon!
Revan: For Darth Malak has a terrible surprise for me, for meeee, for MEEEEEE!
(They escape and run into Malak.)
Revan: So you thought you would fire on my ship in the sky?
So you thought you'd betray me and leave me to die?
Oh Malak, can't do this to me Malak,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right out of here!
(Carth and Revan flee the Leviathan while Bastila fights Malak.)
(Later, Revan faces Bastila on top of the Temple.)
DS Bastila: Power's all that matters.
Anyone can see
Power's all that matters,
Power's all that matters to me.
Anywhere the Hawk goes...