This U student secretly tweeted the lyrics to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for 4 months

Sometime around May 7, a University of Minnesota student named Madie hatched an idea she'd spend the next three and a half months executing.

She'd tweet out the 377 words to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" from her Twitter account @CostcoRiceBag, all in secrecy.

Last week, she made the big reveal:

Of course, this caught the digital world by storm. @CostcoRiceBag, a queen in her own right, had pranked us all.

This is a form of local art that deserves local acclaim. As such, MPR News presents the first section of "Bohemian Rhapsody," in tweet form:

Is this the real life?
Is this the real life?
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Is this just fantasy?
Is this just fantasy?
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Caught in a landslide
Caught in a landslide
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no escape from reality.
No escape from reality.
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Open your eyes
Open your eyes
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look up to the skies
Look up to the skies
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and see.
And see.
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I'm just a poor boy
I'm just a poor boy
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I need no sympathy.
I need no sympathy.
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Because I'm easy come
Because I'm easy come
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easy go
Easy go
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little high, little low
Little high, little low
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Any way the
Any way the
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wind blows
Wind blows
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doesn't
Doesn't
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really matter to me
Really matter to me
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to me.
To me.
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