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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Tyler2004durden
04-27-2009

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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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MathiasCronqvist
02-12-2009

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This may be the greatest song of all time (slow)

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radiogoogoo
10-11-2008

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This is a heartwrenching, beautiful song. One of my favourites from Queen. Freddie's voice is so powerful here and the arrangement is just fantastic. It's wonderfully dramatic and gives me chills every time. My interpretation is that it's about a doomed relationship, and the two people are trying to make the most of it while they can - very much like Romeo and Juliet, as other people have mentioned.

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maddywoo
09-22-2008

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Breaking Benjamin did a beautiful cover on this song. It was best cover of a song I have ever heard....next to All Along the Watchtower by The Jimi Hendrix experience

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Metallic_Ant
05-28-2008

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I can repeat one or more of the above mentioned comments, but this song was firsrt performed on the concert in Budapest in 1986, and I love this more than the original one... I always think that the songs which are performed "alive" are greater than the ones made in the studio. So, for me, to listen to Budapest version of this song equals to have sex with two young 21-year girls in one bed.... may be I speak too nasty, but those who understand me - it would be clear for them what I am talking about. Of course this song is about love and how long it can be... Pity that it's not forever... One day the flame has to fade... The flower has to wither... the felings have to pass away :(

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Vedrynas
09-02-2007

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My interpretation is that this song is about fear of death. The lyrical subject cries cause he doesn't want to die. "It's all decided for us" - we all will die someday. "There is no time for us", "This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us" - We be in this world for a very short time...

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lennonmercury520
08-13-2007

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reminds me of somthing shakespear said: its better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

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lennonmercury520
08-13-2007

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reminds me of somthing shakespear said: its better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

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aryoshi
06-06-2007

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This song is clearly shown from the movie Highlander. A man is immortal, yet he falls in love with a woman. However, the immortality can't be passed onto her, no matter what they do. The song is about the woman growing old and dying in the man's arms, while he lives on, still healthy, clean and young. This song was also redone by Sarah Brightman, whom for those who don't know, played as Christine in the original Phantom of the Opera broadway. It's on her album Time To Say Goodbye. Try it :>

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segfault90
04-25-2007

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This song definitely has that certain je ne se qua that sets Queen apart from other bands of their time. I would guess it probably IS about Highlander, but that's kind of a boring analysis.

The "who wants to live forever when love must die" lines seem to sum the song quite well, and it is one of my favorites, despite a difference of opinion with the logic.

"Who wants to live forever". Well, I do, as long as I get a perfect body & intellect to go with it :)

"When love must die?". The answer here is also simple: Don't love at all, and you never have to feel sad when it "dies" (NOTE: "The Love" dies, not necessarily the significant other). Of course, then you end up with people lamenting about loneliness, like Billy Joel with "Piano Man" :)

Seriously though. Many people write this off as a "depression" song, but I just don't think that's the case when you combine it with the emphasis added by the vocals towards the end of the song starting from "But touch my tears with your lips...". To me, it sounds like a song of defiance, and possibly hope.

Another possible interpretation might be that the song is a metaphor for psychological stresses ("cognitive dissonance") of being inherently logical beings, yet still harboring certain illogical "ataval"/primitive characteristics (emotions. and in this case, love). The "no time...no place...no chance..." lines at the beginning could represent the sadness inflicted on the "ataval" self by the cruel realities the logical mind exposes it to. The "touch my tears...." line and beyond then may represent the retaliation by our primitive selves, saying "I don't care about the logic of it, I WILL love forever". This interpretation may fit the song a bit better, since the last line can be explained as the pesky logical mind having to put the last word in, and possibly triggering round 2...

Well, hope someone finds this interesting. I sure hate to see the "It's about AIDS", "It's about being gay", etc, that I see everywhere for Queen songs. Not EVERY song is about sex, unless you INTERPET it that way. It says more about you than the song usually.

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alastingimpression
04-10-2007

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Wow. I think it's so sad how underrated Brian May is.. all of you saying "Freddie wrote this about getting AIDS" really need to check your facts. In fact, I think some of Queen's most beautiful songs were written by Brian May. Dude's brilliant.

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isac
02-28-2007

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It's so cool

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isac
02-09-2007

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It's so deep

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True Queen Fan
01-26-2007

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woh FRBJ_Queen4ever I never thought of that way that Love is what makes us all a bit immortal dude that is a good way to think about it
I'v listened to this song so much i have all these different interpertaions

What I just thought of is that even tho when Bryan May wrote this song for Highlander, did anyone ever think that Bryan May might of wrote it with another meaning too, like a deeper meaning behind the song
like i know its

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FRBJ_Queen4ever
01-16-2007

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Well I was only a little girl back on that time so I don't remember the movie or the series! I guess that gives a diferent opinion about it, but thanks for the piece of information... :)

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mallic
01-14-2007

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umm dude it was written for the movie highlander (and the series to)
if you watch the series you would notice that the song comes up numerous times including when darious dies in the first season

As a stand alone song it sounds good but the lyrics dont vary much and is boring but is a good sad song if your depresed

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FRBJ_Queen4ever
01-13-2007

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I just love this music, it's my favorite in the all world! Brian is God and this music just proves it!
Love is what makes us all a bit immortal
I refuse to belive is about AIDS or gays.
I myself, beeing born in 87, find the though strange...

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True Queen Fan
11-04-2006

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queenown ya but i read that in a book written by Peter Freestone his friend and personal asstant, and when you watch the bio notice when it says the line "it was rumored Freddie was sick" so when you think about it how would 1 of his fans know that, and before you think about that remember i said just in a concert notice not worldwide

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SammaeL
10-29-2006

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Definitely in my top three when it comes to Queen songs.Only other version I've heard that I like is by After Forever & Ayreon.

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TheOlsna
10-27-2006

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By the way, who wants to live forever is a line from the movie flash gordon on which queen also made soundtrack.

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TheOlsna
10-27-2006

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Yeah. Freddie discovered that he had AIDS in 1987.

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queenown
10-05-2006

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Hey, true queen fan i don't where you heard that crap about him fainting on stage and then announcing he had AIDS but that is bullshit, he announced he had AIDS the day before he died in 1991 and no one knew before then apart from his close friends and family.

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jen07
09-18-2006

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Breaking Benjamin did an amazing version of this song
whenever i hear it it makes me realize that life isnt forever and that you have to live everyday to the fullest....when you meet someone do you dare to love them forever?...the people we love will leave their footprints on our hearts and time will set aside a moment between you and them that you will remember and love forever

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tigger2006
07-24-2006

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This song is about the basics ... life, love, and death. We are all dying. From a physical perspective, love cannot last forever. BUT we can experience a love that is transcendant and eternal. We can experience "forever" (eternity, timelessness) in a day or even a moment.

The final line, I think, is a bit of a warning ... don't wait to long or you may miss out on this experience. Carpe Diem!

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meir
07-17-2006

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one of the most powerfull songs ever- When love must die

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