Queen: Who Wants To Live Forever Meaning

Song Released: 1986

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
Who wants to live forever....?

There’s no chance for us
It’s all decided for us
This world has...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 8th 2010 !⃝

   The song was written, just after Freddie's cat, Stripes passed away. He knew that the cat did not want to live forever, otherwise the cat would have used his nine lives better. Who jumps off a 7 storey building, seriously!!!!
2. anonymous

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   Jan 5th 2010 !⃝

   my god you people who think that they saw a movie and just came up with this song and that was that are obviously emotionless idiots. yeah maybe they were asked to write it for a movie but i honestly dont think anyone could write a song that powerful and emotional if it wasnt personal to them. whether it was to do with freddie finding out he was dieing or whether brian wrote it about his father orr for freddie or whoever he wrote it for, its clearrrrrly a very personal song to them and you can definatly see it in the way they perform this song. you can hear the sadness in their voices.
   everyone is entitled to have their own opinion about what this song means. and to all those people who think they are know it alls about queen, well, the only people who are really know it alls about queen, are the members of the band so get over it.
   this song is very meaningful to me and has me in tears every single time. very beautiful indeed.
3. anonymous

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   May 10th 2009 !⃝

   This song is from the movie Highlander. In the movie there is a scene in which Connor goes to his secretary Rachel and tells her he won't be seeing her again, because he is off to fight the legendary duel, so there can be only one. In the director's cuts there is a flashback to Rachel being shot at. Connor throws himself over her and takes the bullet (he's immortal, he will survive) and when she asks him how this can be he says "it's a kind of magic."
4. anonymous

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   Mar 4th 2009 !⃝

   Highlander was originally going to be released without the Queen soundtrack, the early industry screenings never had the soundtrack, and it felt like something was missing. My old Projection manager was at one of the early screenings, so presumably they decided that the movie needed an extra spark, and approached Queen, so, yes, the song was written for highlander, however, it was written for highlander based on their opinions of watching the original cut of the movie which did not include their music.
5. anonymous

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   Nov 23rd 2008 !⃝

   some people on here have said that this song was written when Freddie Mercury knew that he was dying of AIDS. But actually, I have the "Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium" DVD, and Freddie presents the song as a new one in that concert. (The concert took place in 1986.) However, in the documentary dvd that comes with it, Queen members said that Freddie did not find out that he had HIV until 1987. However, now they think that he may have suspected at the time ( 1986)that something was going on with his health.
6. anonymous

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   Apr 29th 2008 !⃝

   Just because it was written for the film Highlander, doesn't mean the first person's interpretation isn't right.
   
   I believe the first interpretation, and that's what the song means to me.
7. anonymous

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   Jan 30th 2008 !⃝

   It has nothing to with AIDS or Freddie. The band was asked to view a 45 min version of the film Highlander and write a song. Since the four members of the band all wrote songs (hit songs at that) they said we'll write five songs. Brian wrote most of this song on the car ride home. It hit very close to home because his father had past away not long before this and a lot that went into this song as well.
8. anonymous

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   Oct 28th 2007 !⃝

   Actually, Show Must Go On was written about Freddie dying of AIDS, this song was inspired by an early rough edit of Highlander, and written for the soundtrack.
9. anonymous

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   Jun 8th 2007 !⃝

   It's the track for highlander, and I completely agree with the first interpretation. and yes mercury was dying of aids wen this was written (around '85, I'm guessin)
10. anonymous

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    Apr 24th 2007 !⃝

    I heard from someone that it was written after Freddie Mercury discovered he was dying of AIDS. It is a truly amazing song and maybe slightly bitter in a kind of "Hey who really wants to live on this crummy planet anyway? It sucks coz of all the bad stuff in it!" There was also and instrumental based on this by Queen called Forever. Also a really good track.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
11. anonymous

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    Apr 22nd 2007 !⃝

    Actually it was written for highlander the film as the theme track and if you were a real Queen fan like me you would know that the video for princes of the universe is of Freddie and Christopher Lambert having a sword and microphne stand dual! get wiv it
    
    Queenno.1fan!
12. anonymous

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    Nov 11th 2006 !⃝

    This song was written by Brian May after the band watched the highlander together (queen greatest hits ii booklet).
    It is about the movie. Just buy the greatest hits ii booklet and read it.

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