I'm just the pieces of the man I used to be
Too many bitter tears are raining down on me
I'm far away from home
And I've been facing this alone
For much too long
Oh, I feel like no-one ever told the truth to me
About growing up and what a struggle it would be
In my tangled state of mind
I've been looking back to find
Where I went wrong

Too much love will kill you
If you can't make up your mind
Torn between the lover
And the love you leave behind
You're headed for disaster
'Cause you never read the signs
Too much love will kill you - every time

I'm just the shadow of the man I used to be
And it seems like there's no way out of this for me
I used to bring you sunshine
Now all I ever do is bring you down
Oh, how would it be if you were standing in my shoes
Can't you see that it's impossible to choose
No there's no making sense of it
Every way I go I'm bound to lose
Oh yes

Too much love will kill you
Just as sure as none at all
It'll drain the power that's in you
Make you plead and scream and crawl
And the pain will make you crazy
You're the victim of your crime
Too much love will kill you every time

Yes, too much love will kill you
It'll make your life a lie
Yes, too much love will kill you
And you won't understand why
You'd give your life, you'd sell your soul
But here it comes again
Too much love will kill you
In the end
In the end


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Too Much Love Will Kill You Lyrics as written by Brian May Elizabeth Lamers

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    Some people are so ridiculous about believing that every song is about Freddie's battle with AIDS. Some have foolishly said Bohemian Rhapsody is about AIDS, which is impossible as AIDS wasn't known when they wrote that song. So far on every Queen song I look up, a swarm of people will say that it's about AIDS.

    ' Too much love will kill you ' doesn't send a message of death and AIDS when I listen to it...it sends a message of the danger of love, and how powerful yet deadly it really can be, hence the 'kill you' part. The song was written by Brian, and these lyrics "Too much love will kill you If you can't make up your mind Torn between the lover and the love you leave behind " kinda point out the meaning...I agree with the people who say the song is about being torn between a lover (his girlfriend at the time) and his wife (at the time) hence "Torn between the lover (affair) and the love you leave behind (wife) All in all, he's torn and heart broken, and has experienced the darker side of love. Too much love will kill you. Think about it. The love of his wife, the love of his girlfriend. It's all too much, and he's torn, and now instead of seeing love as a magical powerful thing, he's seeing it as something that's tearing him apart.

    The song is pretty self explanatory!

    Pixies-Existon July 02, 2007   Link

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