Babilonia Lyrics in English Diodato

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Babilonia by Diodato from Italian to English.

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I fall, and you

You come pick me up

If I knew what a soul is

I'd know what to sell you

I fall, and you

You take me even lower

You're a mirror to my limits

Of my useless talents

Each time you surprise me

You're everything around

And then you're gone

You're not here

I don't know how you slam me like this

Some days my heart's black

It always feels like Monday

And the night has a thousand gazes that feed on me

Then the light wipes them out and I start believing again

That anything's possible, this sane madness

Is able to show me

I just need you to take me away, from here

From this absurd and useless Babylon

Babylon

I fall, and you

And you take me even lower

Into these icy abysses

I breathe liquid dreams

But each time you surprise me

When I think I've hit bottom

You pull me up, you pull me up, you pull me up

I don't know how you slam me like this

Some days my heart's black

It always feels like Monday

And the night has a thousand gazes that feed on me

Then the light wipes them out and I start believing again

Anything's possible, this sane madness

Is able to show me

I just need you to take me away, from here

From this absurd and useless Babylon

Babylon

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SONG MEANING

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.

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