One of the songs I hold very dear to my heart is Brian Mays Too Much Love Will Kill You. At many points in my life this song has been very special to me.

When the song was in the hitlists over here my brother was at the age of recording songs from the radio and creating his own hitlist tapes with a friend from next door. I was a little younger, but thought it was really cool what they did. So I copied their tapes and created my own hitlists. Too Much Love Will Kill You (as well as The Scorpions' Wind Of Change) was one of the songs that has been on my #1 position for weeks.

I still have these tapes and it's funny, me spelling / pronouncing the English titles of the songs when I was 8 or 9 . Unfortunately the tapes are at my parents, can't check them now.

Somehow it feels this song is connected to that unworried chilhood of me. It brings back memories of a good time.

Later in life this song always popped up again someway or another. Playing it on constant repeat everytime I felt down, overanalysing the song with a friend on our first holiday without parents in France... I must've heard this song a billion times. And now that I came to understand English and also the lyrics, I love the song even more. Although the lyrics never really were about me... the passion, the words, the voice of Brian May... it's a masterpiece .

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Im just the pieces of the man I used to be
Too many bitter tears are raining down on me
Im far away from home
And Ive been facing this alone
For much too long
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
Ive been looking back to find
Where I went wrong

Too much love will kill you
If you cant make up your mind
Torn between the lover
And the love you leave behind
Youre headed for disaster
cos you never read the signs
Too much love will kill you
Every time

Im just the shadow of the man I used to be
And it seems like theres no way out of this for me
I used to bring you sunshine
Now all I ever do is bring you down
How would it be if you were standing in my shoes
Cant you see that its impossible to choose
No theres no making sense of it
Every way I go Im bound to lose

Too much love will kill you
Just as sure as none at all
Itll drain the power thats in you
Make you plead and scream and crawl
And the pain will make you crazy
Youre the victim of your crime
Too much love will kill you
Every time

Too much love will kill you
Itll make your life a lie
Yes, too much love will kill you
And you wont understand why
Youd give your life, youd sell your soul
But here it comes again
Too much love will kill you
In the end...
In the end.