MARIAN GOLD - FOREVER YOUNG

FOREVER YOUNG

MARIAN GOLD

SONGWRITERS: BERNHARD LLOYD; FRANK MERTENS & MARIAN GOLD

WHERE: LIVE@GOLDENE EUROPE, 1984, GERMANY

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: FOREVER YOUNG

LABEL: WEA

GENRE: NEW WAVE

YEAR: 1984

“Forever Young" is a song from German synthpop group Alphaville's 1984 debut album of the same name. The single was a strong hit in Scandinavia and in the European German-speaking countries in the same year.

Although it was not the group's highest-charting European hit, and it failed to reach the American top 40 despite three separate U.S. single releases (nevertheless, the single achieved more success in the United States than in the United Kingdom), "Forever Young" became one of the signature songs of the band and it has subsequently been covered by numerous artists.

Marian Gold (born Hartwig Schierbaum on 26 May 1954) is the lead singer of the German synthpop group Alphaville, and has also recorded as a solo artist.

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 going to 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 mad men

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

Forever, or never

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

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, or never

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

Forever, or never

Forever young, I wanna be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?