Keep Yourself Alive (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 24th December 1975)

[Intro: Freddie Mercury & Brian May]

Now, now it's time to join in, everybody

Join in

And you can sing along the choruses, give us a helping hand, you can take all your clothes off

Come on, alright

Ooh, yeah, everybody, yes

What about you on the balcony, are you with us?

Everybody at home? Yeah?

Keep yourself alive!

Let's go!

Come on, come on

[Verse 1]

I was told a million times of all the troubles in my way

Mind you grow a little wiser, little better every day

But if I crossed a million rivers and I rode a million miles

Still be where I started, bread and butter for a smile

Sold a million mirrors in a shop in Alley Way

But I never saw my face in any window any day

Now they say your folks are telling you, “Be a superstar”

Tell you, “Just be satisfied, stay right where you are”

[Chorus]

Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive

All you people, keep yourself alive

Come on, rrrah!

Let me see it

Ow!

[Verse 2]

Well, I've loved a million women in a belladonnic haze

And I ate a million dinners brought to me on silver trays

Give me everything I need, feed my body and my soul

Grow a little bigger, maybe that can be my goal

Told a million times of all the people in my way

How I had to keep on trying and get better every day

But if I crossed a million rivers, rode a million miles

Still be where I started, same as when I started

[Chorus]

Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive

All you people, keep yourself alive

Now shake it!

[Guitar Solo]

Ooh, ack

Ahh

Ooh

[Chorus]

Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive

All you people, keep yourself alive

[Bridge]

Do you think you're better every day?

No, I just think I'm two steps nearer to my grave

[Chorus]

Come on and keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive

All you people, keep yourself alive

[Outro]

Keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive

All you people, keep yourself alive

Keep yourself alive

Come on, come on (Keep yourself alive)

Come on and get it, get it, get it, boy

Keep yourself alive

Whoo!

[Spoken Word: Freddie Mercury]

Thank you, my beauties, thank you…