Number 1 greatest song of all time!

[Delirium-Zer0]

Man, this IS a hard one. I decided on a song that has a beautiful, catchy melody, genre-crossing within it, lyrics that can make you cry, and an arrangement that's way too hard for any band to ever effectively cover.

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

Now, Queen are by no means a favorite band of mine, but this song is truly epic. The lyrics are full of anger, sadness, poetry, symbolism, and emotional adventure. The melody is unforgettable if you've heard the song even once, the harmonies in the vocals are deep, multifaceted, and beautiful (not to mention Freddy Mercury had one of the clearest, cleanest, sweetest, and most voluptuous voices in the history of rock & roll) and the instruments are impossible to play exactly the same twice.

Faye Wong did a decent cover of it during her HK Scenic Tour, but it still wasn't dead on, which does lead me to believe that the song can't ever be fully emulated even with LOTS of talent & practice.

On top of it, and this was a VERY important criterion for me, I'm still not tired of the song after hearing it over and over for years and years now. It's still good, and as I get older I hear more in it that I like.

...I'm shocked as heck that I picked an english-language song for this.