Forever young          by Various artists

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

    Words and phrases

1.  in style：so as to cause admiration by being fashionable and spending a lot of money，由英文释义，我们可看出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，短裙很流行。
** He is living in style. 他一向生活奢华。

在歌中，dance in style可以理解为“舞步时尚或流行”。

2.  Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst ：其实这句话我们一点都不陌生，汉语中常说，“抱最大的希望，做最坏的打算”，其相应的英文表达就是：We'd better hope for the best, but expect the worst. 
 
  红色线条即是柏林墙位置，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。

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。

4.  never say never ：这是一句习惯用语，其英文释义是nothing is impossible, anything can happen（没有不可能的），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，汉语中我们常常挂在口边的“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——个体的生杀大权掌握在上帝手中，或存在于冥冥中的未知——Never say never可以理解为“（我们虽无力违抗天意），却决不愿放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（出乎意料的、没有想到或没有预测到的”，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》中那句美丽的诗行相联系——“美丽的梦和美丽的诗一样，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”。