In the song Diodato highlighted the deep paradox of life: he loves it, even if it is misunderstandable.

In the first stanza you can notice a love-climax that summarises the whole song: life first confuses the singer, then it hits, devours, seduces and abandons him. It’s useful to notice that in the first 4 lines the singer speaks about life using the third person, while in the last 3 lines of the first stanza he directly refers to her using the second one. The shift connotes a deeper relationship with life: while in line 2 life only confuses, in line 5 it devours.

In the second stanza Diodato wides the speech to a universal mood, that is regret. The feeling makes “you” (referred to everybody) crying at night (line 11). Regret is connoted by the use of past and negative tenses (“weren’t done”, “weren’t kept”, lines 8 and 9), which add a melancholy sense to the stanza. Also Diodato’s voice contributes to the meaning, with a slow, sad rhythm.

The following stanza consists of the chorus. It starts with an exclamation (“what a wonderful life”, line 12) clashes against the previous stanzas; however, in lines 13 and 14 Diodato shows the reasons for that sentence. Life, even if it is “painful”, is also tempting -here returns the love climax- and miraculous; life “pushes” you in a sea (with probably references to Hamlet’s monologue, where life was considered as a “sea of troubles” to face). Life is wonderful for its understandability, its fickleness, its unpredictability.

Fourth and fifth stanzas can be considered as the opposite of the first ones. The word “regret” returns as well as the negative verb tenses, but now they have a positive meaning: Diodato doesn’t regret at all the life he has, because he has chosen it (line 19). His choice is repeated several times: he chose to follow every feeling but not clichès and to stay in the place where it lives (maybe is home soil). As a result, Diodato is lost in life. The loss is similar to Leopardi’s one in Infinito (“for me, sinking in this sea is sweat”). It is a rational loss: even if the singer uses the words “passions”, “drunk”, “last summer night”, “screaming”, and so on, he has chosen it.

The ending bridge, “No, I’d never want to let you end”, which is the consequence of the love for life, is the natural end for the song.