Queen - Too Much Love Will Kill You (Official Video)

21 Juin 2021, 16:01pm

Publié par ANTHEVA

Too Much Love Will Kill You est une chanson de Brian May, guitariste du groupe Queen, sorti en single en 1992. Elle apparaît d'abord sur le premier album studio solo de Brian May, Back to the Light(1992). Elle est ensuite réenregistrée avec la voix de Freddie Mercury pour l'album posthume de Queen, Made in Heaven, en 1995.

La chanson, enregistrée vers 1988, devait d'abord figurer sur l'album The Miracle de Queen en 1989, mais des problèmes de droits dus au fait que trois personnes se partagent l'écriture de la chanson l'ont empêché.

En 1992, Brian May l'interprète durant le conert Freddie Mercury Tribute, avant que la version studio ne sorte sur son premier album solo la même année, puis en single. La version chantée par Freddie Mercury n'apparaîtra que trois ans plus tard sur Made in Heaven.

Brian May, Frank Musker, Elizabeth Lamers remportent un Ivor Novello Award pour cette chanson, qui parle des sentiments de Brian May qu'il a ressentis pendant son divorce et des choix auxquels il a été confrontés, notamment entre deux femmes qu'il aimait tout autant l'une que l'autre.

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 'cos 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, oooh
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 yeah

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

Yeah 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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