Queen – Who Wants To Live Forever

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  My Interpretation:Personally, it sounds like there are just two people who aren't meant to be together and can't be together but they have this one moment the world has given them and they are going to make it last forever. "Who wants to live forever" the line repeated throughout, is kind of like, who wants to live forever when we can have today..! because forever is our today!! Anyway, This is an AMAZING song in every way!

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  My Opinion:Honestly, the meaning doesn't matter to me. I just love hearing Mr. Mercury giving it his all, singing his heart out. I don't want to live forever, I just want to hear Freddie do what he does best.

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  General Comment:i think this song is quite optimistic.
  
  at the start the song acknowledges the brevity of our lives and ultimately death takes it away - how unfair - there's no chance, and who doesn't want to live forever. but then...
  
  you CAN 'live forever' - but only when there is no future or past, living in the present (touching lips and fingertips).
  
  the lesson in the lyrics: don't dwell on the past, don't worry about the future, be here in the the now 'forever is our today'
  
  change the focus of your mind and you can live forever...

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  General Comment:This song to me means that someone, like Jesus, wants to live forever. There's no possible way for anyone to live forever actually, if you dumbasses didn't already know.

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  General Comment:All I know is, in correlation to Freddie Mercury + Queen, THEY will LIVE FOREVER. This song is fitting to internationally-renowned musicians such as themselves.

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  General Comment:Over analysis on this one. It was written for the film 'Highlander', Connor Macleod id immortal, Heather his woman isn't, he has to watch her grow old and die, and the song reflects the melancholy of his position. Clever beautiful song, but wholly commercial.

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  My Interpretation:One of the most beautiful, moving songs I can think of. Definitely one of Queen's best.
  
  One the one hand, from the perspective of Highlander it's telling us that forever is a very long time, and serves to show us the guy's loneliness.
  
  
  It's a rhetorical question; no one wants to live forever. Not really.
  
  
  From a human perspective I think it starts off telling us is that life is fleeting, and it isn't always perfect.
  
  It seems to be asking if it's all worth it.
  
  Then later it grows more optimistic, saying to hold tight to what's beautiful and good in life, because it won't always be there, but that it's enough.
  
  "But touch my tears with your lips
  Touch my world with your finger tips
  And we can have forever"
  
  
  
  Put briefly, I think it's about the fragility of the human condition, and the wonder of it.

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  General Comment:ok im half asleep and i just realised, what i just wrote made no sense haha.

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  General Comment:this makes me cry EVERYTIME!! i heard that brian may wrote it about his father who passed away. i dont know if its correct or not im just saying...anyways it has the same meaning to it which different people interpret in different ways.

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  General Comment:Quite Simply one of THE most beautiful pop songs ever written.
  
  I love the lines:
  
  "But touch my tears with your lips
  Touch my world with your fingertips."
  
  I miss Queen and especially Freddie...

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