Album: Forever Young (1984)

Charted: 65

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• Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
  Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
  Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst
  Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
  Let us die young or let us live forever
  We don't have the power, but we never say never
  Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
  The music's for the sad men
  Can you imagine when this race is won
  Turn our golden faces into the sun
  Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
  The music's played by the m-madman
  
  Forever young
  I want to be forever young
  Do you really want to live forever
  Forever, whenever
  Forever young
  I want to be forever young
  Do you really want to live forever
  Forever young
  
  Some are like water
  Some are like the heat
  Some are a melody and some are the beat
  Sooner or later, they all will be gone
  Why don't they stay young?
  It's so hard to get old without a cause
  I don't want to perish like a fading horse
  And youth's like diamonds in the sun
  And diamonds are forever
  So many adventures couldn't happen today
  So many songs we forgot to play
  So many dreams swinging out of the blue
  We let them come true
  
  Forever young
  I want to be forever young
  Do you really want to live forever
  Forever, whenever
  Forever young
  I want to be forever young
  Do you really want to live forever
  Forever young
  
  Forever young
  I want to be forever young
  Do you really want to live forever
  Forever, whenever
  Forever young
  I want to be forever young
  Do you really want to live forever
  Forever young
  Forever young Writer/s: Bernhard Lloyd, Frank Mertens, Marian Gold
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 16

• Time Traveller from Istanbul, TurkeyHow about to learn what Quran talks about this world without any cliche added to it right get it from its first source just reading it by ourselves and to us only in a private time ? Let's see if it is garbage or not with our own findings. Let's make a crazy thing today and just have a look at the verses of Allah and listen to what He really talks about in that mysterious book ? Let me quote you one here and you take it from there ;
  
  …. when the earth has taken on her ornaments and is beautified, and people believe that they are masters of her, Our commandment comes by night or by day, and We make it as reaped corn as if it had never flourished. (Quran 10:24)
  
  Whenever I take a flight at night while looking out of the airplane windows, I cannot help noticing the appearance of the beautifully lighted cities giving an impression of a bride deked-up laced with gold and diamonds. That reminds me of the above verses.
• Tony from Hannibal, MoI have been fighting terminal brain cancer for 5 years. I also have frontal lobe epilepsy. As a lifelong musician that was born the year this song came out. I have watched friends and family pass away and I miss them dearly. I have no desire whatsoever to see old age. I look forward to my last breath. I have a Do Not Resuscitate order in place already. Old age is nothing but being forced into a world of loneliness you barely recognize anymore and getting to watch everyone you care about die. The state the world is in these days it isnt worth the effort of adding beauty to it. You can polish a turd all day but its still a pile of s--t at the end. The only real adventure left is what comes after we die....I know im looking forward to it....you guys can cling to a world that doesnt want you but I know the inherit value in letting go of illusions. And yes I will play this at my funeral.
• Ronsha from New JerseyImagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds covered this song and dedicated it to the late Swedish DJ Avicii, who died in 2018 due to suicide. He was only 28 years old.
• Kathrin from Villingen-schwenningenthe song has bern played at a german TV film, not at cinema, Who knows the title of the film?
• Hermit In The Wilderness from West Coast, UsaThis song is continually misunderstood. It is NOT about a "fear of aging". Is it about the cold war and fears of nuclear apocalypse - eg "are they gonna drop the bomb or not.".
  
  The singer is offering up dying young as being "forever young" It is a replacement for the future that is taken away and the (future) "adventures given up today" being lost. It is saying at least not aging like a "fading horse" is the silver lining. Everything about growing old is thrown out as being avoided, as a way to deal with the existential horror.
  
  In effect it is about not having opportunity to age and grow old.
• Tony from BaltimoreI love this song it just takes me back to my late teens n early 20s in the 1980s
• Mike from Dallas, TxCould someone clarify who the older gentleman is in the video? been mentioned he looks like Michael Constantine?
• Dki from WaNina was the same then. They felt trapped between the powers that humbled them, scared of more and more war.
  Their music is so much happier now. Time heals, especially peaceful times.
• Isabella from SchoolThis is a very sad but beuitiful song
• Mary D from Manteca, Ca, UsaI don't think they're singing, It's so hard to get old without a cause but actually saying Course. It's hard to hear the "r". It makes more sense and rhymes with horse.
• Shandroise De Laeken from Davao City, PhilippinesI really love this song. A pity its cover versions were more recognized than this. I hate the young people misinterpreting this song. I feel bad that one group stated below even changed the lyrics so their song is about dancing and partying. Awful. It is as if the world is just about parties and dancing.
• Sjur from Orkanger, NorwayThe Swedish skate punk band Stoned covered this for their 1997 EP "Shopping Around" (Ampersand Records). Gives it a nice hint of punk, one of my favourite covers of all time.
• Victor from Barcelona, SpainGerman band Dune covered this along with a London symphonic orchestra on their 1996 album "Forever".
• Hannah from Gustavus, OhActually, this was never covered on any of the Punk Goes albums. So They Say covered the Rod Stewart song of the same title. However, electropop group Cash Cash covered this in 2010 with a more upbeat rhythm and more modern lyrics (about dancing and partying rather than Cold War fears), releasing it as a separate single.
• Ray from Crawley W.sussex, EnglandThis video was filmed at Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia water, surrey great song!
• Raymond from Sydney , AustraliaForever young is a wish that could come true Isaiah 65;20: the child shall die a hundred years of age. But really truth in relationships is what we need and if your looking for the fountain of youth find me.

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