Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - ASL Song

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen, performed in sign language by Stephen Torrence. Gloss/lyrics below and captions by yours truly. Thanks to all who voted and chose this song from among hundreds of requests!

Note: I guessed the name signs for Galileo and Figaro based on the qualities "telescope" and "happy," respectively.

Is this the real life?
[LOOK-AROUND] THIS LIFE REAL?
Is this just fantasy?
DREAM? WHICH?
Caught in a landslide
HERE STUCK,
No escape from reality
WHY? HAPPEN+++ OVERWHELM
Open your eyes
EYES-OPEN
Look up to the skies and see
LOOK [UPWARD], UNDERSTAND
I'm just a poor boy (Poor boy)
ME? POOR
I need no sympathy
PITY [PUSH-AWAY]
Because I'm easy come, easy go
HAPPEN++ WHATEVER
Little high, little low
SOMETIMES HAPPY, SOMETIMES SAD
Any way the wind blows
HAPPEN WHATEVER
Doesn't really matter to me, to me
DON'T-MATTER FOR-ME

Mama just killed a man
MOTHER, MAN KILL-HIM
Put a gun against his head
[CL-L: GUN-AGAINST-MAN-HEAD]
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
[CL-L: FIRE, MAN-DIE]
Mama, life has just begun
MOTHER, MY LIFE BEGIN
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
BUT MY LIFE RUIN
Mama, ooh
MOTHER, [CL:O]
Didn't mean to make you cry
YOU CRY, I FAIL, SORRY
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
IF TOMORROW I NOT RETURN
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
YOU CONTINUE++. PRETEND NOT-MATTER

Too late, my time has come
LATE, MY DEATH APPROACH
Sends shivers down my spine
FEAR [SHIVERING]
Body's aching all the time
PAIN [ALL-OVER]
Goodbye, everybody
GOODBYE
I've got to go
NOW I MUST LEAVE
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
MUST LEAVE, TRUTH ACCEPT
Mama, oooooooh (Anyway the wind blows)
MOTHER
I don't want to die
DIE, I NOT-WANT
Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
SOMETIMES I WISH PAST I NOT BORN

[Guitar Solo]

I see a little silhouetto of a man
I SEE-MYSELF, I BECOME WEAK
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango
WEAK-MAN, YOU DANCE FOR-US?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
THUNDER, LIGHTNING, I AFRAID
(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro
[G-TELESCOPE+++++], [F-HAPPY]
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
AWESOME
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
I POOR, LOVE-ME? NONE
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
HE BOY, POOR, FROM FAMILY, POOR
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
PLEASE, HIS LIFE PRESERVE
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
HAPPEN++ WHATEVER, YOU ALLOW LEAVE?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
GOD NO, LEAVE FORBID
Let him go
ALLOW LEAVE
Bismillah! We will not let you go
GOD NO, LEAVE FORBID
Let him go
ALLOW
Bismillah! We will not let you go
GOD NO, FORBID
Let me go (Will not let you go)
ALLOW, FORBID
Let me go (Will not let you go) (Never, never, never, never)
ALLOW LEAVE, LEAVE FORBID
Let me go, o, o, o, o
ALLOW LEAVE
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
NO+++++++
(Oh mama mia, mama mia) Mama Mia, let me go
[BEGGIN] ALLOW LEAVE
Beelzebub has the devil put aside for me, for me, for me!
DEVIL HE WAIT FOR ME+++

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
YOU ABUSE-ME YOU THINK CAN?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
YOU LOVE-ME, FINISH, DON'T-CARE YOU?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
SWEETHEART, BEG, HURT-ME++ NO
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
MUST ESCAPE, MUST RUN-AWAY

[Guitar Solo]
(Oooh yeah, Oooh yeah)
[Noodling] YES, YES

Nothing really matters
HAPPEN++ NOT-MATTER
Anyone can see
ALL UNDERSTAND
Nothing really matters
HAPPEN++ NOT-MATTER
Nothing really matters to me
HAPPEN++ NOT-MATTER FOR-ME

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[933marilyn]

is it me or asl is actually sexy? i love it!

[HugzTiem]

[NOODLING] DEAR GOD WHY ARE YOU PERFECT.

[JessieBeeaar]

This is meh song ! (;

[Queezbo]

Wow! That is spectacular! Especially the middle section-- the operatic part. Spot on perfect.

[shannon moody]

is that even sl? ffs!?

[bloomingrosevine]

Watched it to the end, and that is saying something as tired as I am. Really wonderful.

[Sandi Rose]

Dat signing...

[meselojelek]

I LOVE IT!!!

[missloivissaflower]

that was so awesomely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! wow

[lifesmiles2004]

I agree with 933marilyn Sign language done well can be very sexy. I think that sign language makes songs much more meaning full. But I also think sign language in general is a very beautiful way to communicate.

[ramses bams]

"never been born at all"

that move when he does...