Forever young byVarious artists
Lets dance in style
Lets dance for a while
Heaven can wait
Were 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 dont have the power
But we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit
Life is a short trip
The musics for the sad men
Can you imagine
When this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders
Were getting in tune
The musics played by the madmen
Forever young
I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever
Forever and ever
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 dont they stay young
Its so hard to get old without a cause
I dont want to perish like a fading horse
Youths like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldnt happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
Well let them come true
Forever young
I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever
Forever and ever
Words and phrases
1. in style：so as to cause admiration by being fashionable and spending a lot of money，由英文解释，大家可看出in style有两层涵义：“赶时髦、讲气派”，请看下面两个例句：
** This year, short skirts are in style. 今年，短裙非常时尚。
** He is living in style. 他一向生活奢华。
在歌中，dance in style可以理解为“舞步时髦或时尚”。
2. Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst ：其实这句话大家一点都很熟悉，汉语中常说，“抱最大的期望，做最坏的计划”，其相应的英文表达就是：Wed better hope for the best, but expect the worst.
红色线条即是柏林墙地方，两德统一后被拆除3. Are you going to drop the bomb or not：这句牵涉到一点历史背景，这首歌的原唱是Alphaville（阿尔发村合唱团），乐队于1982年成立于西柏林，单曲“Forever young”发行于1984年。
来自于冷战，刻上鲜明年代印记的柏林墙打造于1961年，一堵墙，不只隔开了资本主义和社会主义，还使不少柏林家庭分裂成两半。这种情况直至持续到1990年，随着着东西德的统一，柏林墙才不复存在。但在这之前的几十年，有关柏林墙与东德西德之间的故事却充满着“相互的敌对、相互的猜疑与相互的思念”，无论是墙的东边还是墙的西边，大家从不怀疑战争随时爆发的可能。所以这句“are you going to drop the bomb or not”体现了当时的年代特征——缺少安全感的德国人多么渴望和平和统一。
4. never say never ：这是一句习惯用语，其英文解释是nothing is impossible, anything can happen（没不可能的），请看例句：
Mary said Tom would never call her again, but I told her, Never say never. 玛丽说，汤姆再也不会给她打电话了，但我告诉她，“这是不可能的事儿”。
其实，汉语中大家常常挂在口边的“有志者事竟成”，其内蕴的真谛就是“Never say never”。
在歌中，依据歌词意境——个体的生杀大权学会在上帝手中，或存在于冥冥中的未知——Never say never可以理解为“（大家虽无力违抗天意），却决不愿舍弃个体的努力来顺从天意。”
5. swinging out of the blue ：原意指from an unexpected or unforeseen source（出人预料的、没想到或没预测到的”，如：criticism that came out of the blue（突如其来的批评）。
在歌中，out of the blue用来形容“远方不可知的梦”，理解时可与席慕蓉《初相遇》中那句漂亮的诗行相联系——“漂亮的梦和漂亮的诗一样，都是可遇不可求的，常常在最没能料到的时刻里出现……”，所以，dreams swinging out of the blue可以翻译为“未知的梦在远方召唤”，译文里为了上下句对应，省掉了“未知”。
