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4、Forever young

　　Forever young by the Alphaville

　　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 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 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\'ll let them come true

　　Forever young
　　I want to be forever young
　　Do you really want to live forever
　　Forever and ever

　　有些特意的词作下注解来：

　　*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。

　　源于冷战，刻上鲜明时代印记的柏林墙建立于1961年，一堵墙，不仅隔开了资本主义和社会主义，还使很多柏林家庭分裂成两半。这种状况直至持续到1990年，伴随着东西德的统一，柏林墙才不复存在。但在这之前的几十年，有关柏林墙以及东德西德之间的故事却充满着“相互的敌对、相互的猜疑以及相互的思念”，无论是墙的东边还是墙的西边，人们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”体现了当时的时代特点——缺乏安全感的德国人多么渴望和平和统一。

　　*swinging out of the blue ：原意指from an unexpected or unforeseen source（出乎意料的、没有想到或没有预测到的）

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作者有话要说：　　“音乐初始的吉他声是如此的干脆和利落，清晰幼稚的童音抚平心底的那份不安定，世界瞬间纯净透明；在干净舒服的乐声中，童话中的声音悠然传至耳畔，儿童特有的柔软和并不清晰的吐字，却让已经长大可还执著幼稚的你我陷落……”