Never having been a Queen or Mercury fan, I must have missed this song when it came out. So when I came across it as - weirdly- a part of an Advanced English language texttbook that I was required to teach, this was my first exposure to the song.
It could be taken as humorous enough until you remember (and the textbook reminded me of this fact) that it was written and performed when Mercury was in the full grip of his terminall illness - and so can be taken as more or less a bit of reportage.
So played it to a class - without myself having listened to it first. (Always a mistake!) Afterwards there was a chiiled silence which was broken by me saying: `Hmmm...well, that;s a bit disturbing, isn't it?` Nobody disagreed and we moved swiftly on.
One caveat: the piece is a bit less unsettling when experienced with its accompanying video, which - perhaps out of felt necessity- makes comedic light of it. That's why I'm sharing the lyrics only version: