I am afraid the people saying is just about individual's life or love story are thinking way too small.
The lyrics are actually an allegory of the travail of entire Roman and then Byzantine empire — the conversion to Christianity, the abandoning of Rome for Byzantium. The knowledge and voices which, weighed down too much by history and corruption finally succumbing to black. If you have not traveled their path you will never know what it is to go so far you can never go back.
I am afraid the people saying is just about individual's life or love story are thinking way too small.
The lyrics are actually an allegory of the travail of entire Roman and then Byzantine empire — the conversion to Christianity, the abandoning of Rome for Byzantium. The knowledge and voices which, weighed down too much by history and corruption finally succumbing to black. If you have not traveled their path you will never know what it is to go so far you can never go back.
@ayebrobrolol I really like this interpretation. Could you be explain more?
@ayebrobrolol I really like this interpretation. Could you be explain more?