Babilonia is the Italian name for the ancient city of Babylon. It's a powerful and evocative word that you won't find in many songs.
In this track, Diodato uses it metaphorically to describe a state of overwhelming chaos and confusion. When he sings of wanting to be taken away from this "assurda e inutile Babilonia" (absurd and useless Babylon), he's expressing a deep desire to escape a noisy, meaningless, and chaotic modern world.
Welcome to Babilonia, a chaotic city of the soul where glittering possibilities clash with dark back-alleys of doubt. Italian singer-songwriter Diodato paints this metropolis as the setting for a roller-coaster relationship: every time he falls, the mysterious “you” both rescues him and drags him even deeper. The song’s beat pulses like night-time traffic, while the lyrics swirl with mirrors, abysses and “liquid dreams,” capturing that dizzy moment when passion feels thrilling yet dangerously unstable.
Deep down, Babilonia is a hymn to resilience. Even when the heart turns “black” and every day resembles a gloomy Monday, dawn’s light still blows away the night’s hungry eyes, letting hope return. Diodato calls this spark “sana follia” (healthy madness) – the brave belief that anything is possible if we can just escape the “absurd and useless Babylon” of our fears. The result is a song about finding balance in chaos, embracing vulnerability and letting love guide us back to the surface, ready to breathe again.