| Queen – Too Much Love Will Kill You Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I think Queen fans are often too quick to assume that every song is about Freddie having AIDS. As a huge fan of the band myself, I understand that it can be easy to focus on that particular tragedy, and forget that the other members of the band had plenty of their own woes. This song can be interpreted two different ways, and I truly believe both of them to be correct to some degree. When Freddie sang it, he very well might have used the lyrics to reflect his own state at the time-- he had just been diagnosed with a disease that he knew would kill him, as a result of life and love. Too much love was LITERALLY going to be the thing that killed him in the end. In an era where being gay wasn't accepted the same way that it is today, I have to think that Freddie blamed himself for what was happening to him. Like we hear in the second chorus of the song, perhaps Freddie really felt that he was the victim of his "crime." The second theory centers around Brian, the primary writer of the song. At the time of its creation, he was in a very dark place. He was involved both with his wife and another woman, which he also later married. "Torn between the lover, and the love you leave behind..." I think the lyrics of this song STRONGLY reflect that it is about this very scenario; about making mistakes, and being forced to make the painful choices that follow. Brian has openly admitted that between his own affair and Freddie's diagnosis, he was contemplating suicide at that point of his life, which I also think we can also see a glimpse of in this heartbreaking song. Any way you look at it, it is undoubtedly a song about change; a song about moving on and growing up and wishing you didn't have to. |
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