I think this song is about suicide. It’s about a guy who just feels unloved and wants to die. The lyrics “Mama, I just killed a man/ put a gun against his head/ pulled my trigger, now he’s dead” are about an attempt, maybe Russian Roulette. Part of him died when he realised that he really did want to die, so he wrote a suicide note to his mother- all of the Mama parts support this. And it’s not that he wants to die, persay. He just wants it all to end. He wishes he’d “never been born at all”. He’s morally conflicted about his decision- part of him wants to live (“Let me go!”) and part of him wants to die (“We will not let you go”). He then realises that he doesn’t care, that “nothing really matters” and shoots himself.
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I love your interpretation of this song . . . I LOVE Queen. I’ve listened to them since I was a kid lol. I always thought that the song was about a man who committed a murder and is waiting for his execution. I never thought about him as a man thinking about killing himself. The line “because I’m easy come, easy go, little high, little low” could be a reference to mania and depression, maybe thats why he’s contemplating suicide.
I wonder what Freddie Mercury had in mind when he was writing the song