Lyrics for Who Wants To Live Forever as interpreted by Novartza

Who Wants To Live Forever Lyrics
There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams, yet slips away
from us
Who wants to live forever? (twice)

There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

Who wants to live forever? (twice)
Who dares to love forever
When love must die?

But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is ours today
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
Forever is ours today
Who waits forever anyway?

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mercanfat
01-09-2002

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This is the soundtrack of the film "Highlander".

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HoE BuNnY
01-28-2002

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what a great song :)

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HoE BuNnY
01-28-2002

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what a great song :)

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Merciful
04-17-2002

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There's a wonderful version of this tune called "Forever" on the A kind of magic cd(remastered). It's just a piano solo but sounds absolutely amazing.

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Cranberried
07-10-2002

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I wish people would make comments worth reading. Most of these are not worthy of typing out and pressing the button to "Add." "Save Me" from this stupidity.

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Kenobi65
07-18-2002

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Back in '91 or '92, not too long after Freddie died, the rest of the band did a benefit concert, with all sorts of other musicians joining them. Seal (who I didn't know anything about at that point) did an incredibly moving rendition of this song.

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Cyberminnie
07-24-2002

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One of my favorite Songs from Queen, Freddy's Voice is so powerful, too bad he had to leave this world behind so early!

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reaper961
09-06-2002

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uh, cranberried, who asked you?

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CB2001
03-14-2003

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It's opera-like. It's extremely beautiful. I can't think of an interpretation of it, but I hope that someone here can try.

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quiffporn
04-08-2003

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This is my favorite sog by Queen.
It sounds like a kind of romeo & Juliet kind of situation "There's no time for us"+"It's all decided for us
" and "This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us" (suicide)
I heard a version of this song where Brian May did all the vocals, and I actually think he sings it better than Freddy. Great Song either way.

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quiffporn
04-15-2003

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im not totally sure what a sog is either...

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Ben2k9
05-09-2003

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i dont usually like ballads, but this is one of my fave songs of all time!!

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Italian Phaethon
05-09-2003

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Indeed, a very good song. However, I asked cranberried, well not exactly, but he's right, please give us something to chew on.

let's see it is from the HIghlander, so considering it's about immortals... with the love theme? lets be somewhat logical.

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Rembrandt
06-15-2003

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I very much agree with quiffporn, this song is like a Romeo + Juliet theme song or something. Especially the suicide comment. I'm not sure what Freddy Mercury wrote this song about, maybe AIDS? I dunno.

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Leftc0astenvy27
06-17-2003

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I actually heard that this song, along with 'the show must go on' was written after he found out he had AIDS. From what i know, he didnt tell the public that he had AIDS until shortly before his death, so maybe this was his way of dealing and coping with reality. Whatever the meaning, it is a very good and powerful song.

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mikeb26
07-07-2003

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I don't know what Freddy had in mind when he wrote this song, but this is what I think:

It sounds like a person that someone loves incredibly is about to pass away. And in the beginning of the song, Freddy states their emotions in words:
"There's no time for us
There's no place for us "

In other words, it's all over. They will depart each other and never be together again.

He then sings: "What is this thing that builds our dreams, yet slips away
from us(?)"

And the answer that I think of is HOPE. He feels that hope has, in a sense, left them.

He is saying in the lines:

"There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us "

in my opinion, that the end is now near for the one he loves or the person loving him. They only have a "moment" to spend with each other and to love each other before the person passes away.

Then he asks again, "who want's to live forever?" and then "who dares to love forever?" I think he is saying, that we cannot live forever, obviously, but would dare to say that you could love someone forever when you know that they are going to die?

He stresses this point when he says, "and love must die".

But there is a way to love and be with that person forever. He says: "But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever "

By spending the last few moments together and not worrying about death, but instead concentrating on the love between you and that person, you can have "forever"

He says, "Forever is ours today" meaning, today, the last moments that I spend with you is ours forever.

But then he says, rather abdruptly at the end, "Who waits forever anyway?" I take this to mean, that the end has come and although "forever is ours today", reality has set in and death is as real as it has always been.

THe song, to me, is about loving someone that is about to die. It could be about a Romeo and Juliet style love/dying, but I like to look at it differently. THe reality is that we all love or will love someone that is about to die or is dying.

Freddy, of course, knew this well. I am sure he loved many people and knowing you are going to die has to have an affect on you and the people that love you.

Regardless of it's meaning, it is an absolute beautiful song, musically, lyrically and vocally.
Peace.

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Arianrhod
04-11-2004

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mikeb26, that was a great analysis.
This is a great song. I saw Michael Falzon and Kate Hoolihan sing this song in the Melbourne production of We Will Rock You, and it was just gorgeous.

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slagonia
05-07-2004

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If anyone has a chance, listen to Sarah Brightman's version of this song. Listening to it with an operatic voice is quite beautiful.

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Italian Phaethon
05-09-2004

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romeo and juliet theme is very interesting and does somehow relate.

Both this and Show must go on were written by Brian May, not freddie Mercury, not to mention this was 1986 and Show must go on is 1991

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illninofan
06-17-2004

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i think that suicide thing is pretty damn stupid especially if u look at the passage he relates it too because if u have ever come that close u dont think of it as a "sweet moment" you think of it as the only way out. Dont try to analyze something you know nothing about.

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queen fan no1
06-23-2004

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i think this song is when freddie first found out he had aides

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AliesterCrowleyFan
06-24-2004

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I thought this song was about how its pointless to love because love will always die unless its true love. Then I thought at the end he decided that forever was too long to wait for true love. I don't know though. I've never seen the movie.

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quiffporn
06-30-2004

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illninofan, if you had actually read Romeo and Juliet, you would understand.

So, in your own words "Dont try to analyze something you know nothing about". ;)

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ThatOtherGuy
09-25-2004

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I doubt the song has to do with his AIDS or anything else in Freddies life. He wrote it for a movie based on a premise of a character who would live for ever and the scene called for music that gave the feeling of lonliness and pain for living while all around you whither and die. The same as the rest of the album. It can ahve meaning if you put it there but it's likely just a song for the movie.... but it still is one of the best songs I've ever heard.

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meursaultsrevolver
09-29-2004

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nevermind about all that, what about when christopher lambert is in the filth station and the pig goes 'what's this?' and he just says 'a sword' - how fucking sweet was that?
queen rule!

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