I played this song at my son's funeral 2 weeks ago. he died on his 21st birthday in a road accident. rip my son. u will be forever young. love u miss u.
My Father In-Law is in this Music Video. It was Australia's very first Skateboarding competition ever, sponsored by Coca-Cola, aired on ABC, and held in Sydney's Northern Suburbs in 1978, He was 14 years-old. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
If I remember correctly it was a commercial. This video and song got me reminiscing growing up in Southern California during the 70s and 80s ... Beyond amazing with good memories with the thought of I wish I could just do it all again. 🙏
@@danielavila5081 He is indeed! He just made a Skateboard for My Son and wrote Forever Young on the underside. He is the one in the thumbnail and appears in the video 3 times. Peace.
The sad part isn’t growing up, it’s the innocence that we lose through out the years. That’s what I miss the most; the days of innocence and ignorantly enjoying life without a worry. Make the most of your life guys, learn to love, communicate and have meaningful relationships. That’s what it’s all about
Mate hope you can live some days without the worrying because thats what Im liviing with, some days just not worth worrying about it. Fortunately people these days are the best to communicate, love and trust with everything going on, worse thing is the internet ont he phone capabilities of social media, pointless most of it, life goes on. Enjoy it, make a difference, be happy.
+Tash Kash *Hugs tight* me too, the original video clip was filmed just up the road from where i lived as a child, when I first saw and heard it it meant little, but now? now it just makes me think about lost time and missed childhood and lost opertunities ... Anyone who says getting old is fun is a liar, I trully, honestly wish I could be forever young....
+Nicky Winters Thing is you choose wether you gona be forever young. Getting old is a concept we created. "Its hard to get old without a cause." Children live only for now :)
My husband spent many a day watching this clip before he died of cancer in February this year. We played it at his funeral. He was born and grew up on the Northern Beaches and his dad worked for Warringah Council and helped build this road. I’ve ordered the T Shirt just released for our son. The song makes me sad. It’s haunting but I love it.
I was raised in Qld and had the same experience. It's kinda eerie to watch as it's a snapshot of our youth that is long gone as the sunset of life is coming into view....
Time felt so slow when I was little. From 1996 to 2006 was only 10 years but it seemed like 100 years to me. However from 2006 to 2016... time really flies, damn
I'm going into my final year of schooling and my parents are moving away to study while I remain where I live to stay at the same school. Life changes so drastically it's frightening
One of the guys in this video is a builder now and built part of my house, this song came on the radio while he was working and was telling us about this day of filming and thats what they all use to do back then, skate around get dirty and come home when the street lights turn on, those were the days...
True. My two little brothers were killed aged 24 and 27. The older one would’ve been 50 today. He would’ve hated that. Forever young is the one good thing to come of it all. 😢
+ThatYKEE™ Live your life and be happy. Listen to your heart, that's what this song is about i think. "Do you really want to live forever?" Everything is so much more important and everything is so much more beautiful because we will die. We will grow up, and grow old and then we die. And it's a gift man not a curse, a precious gift, we can hold close to our hearts because we get to cherish our family and friends everyday who give meaning to our lives. And hold deep in our hearts the loved ones who have left us.
Growing up and growing old is no sorrow. I’ve known too many people, who’ve died very young, so to me growing older is a precious gift and I welcome every wrinkle and grey hair. Aging faces are beautiful to me and laughter lines even more so.
Grew up in Australia in the 1970s. Great time to be a teenager. School holidays with long hot summers at the beach, and outdoors with mates from sunrise to sunset. In fact, on any given clear day most kids were outdoors, riding their bikes, playing sports or at the beach checking out the surf and the opposite sex!
Remember roaming pine plantations, and tea tree scrub plantations with fishing rod in one hand, and air gun in the other. No future generations will experience that. Ever. Sad.
Yep. Summers you could plan well in advance because the weather was actually steadier. Home by the time the lights came on. Exploring and just being kids. How did this latest lot of parents that grew up with that life allow themselves to get scared so much into ruining the last couple of generations childhoods. I shake my head.
@@javiermurgapayo8269 when I say things I never did as a child... its things that as an adult wouldn't be the same. Things that would only seem wild and exciting when you're young. It's just nostalgia.. like watching 1980s home movies.
@@josie50000 thank you for the clarification. Do it again, do not worry for the age !! Believe me, you will feel like you were young because all of us want to be ... Forever young
This Skateboarding was held in the Winter of 1975 near the Coca Cola Factory at Rodborough Rd., Frenchs Forest on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. It captures perfectly the then more carefree and innocent era of 1975 .....when we were Young!
Yeah, carefree. the Americans had just gotten out of a war that cost millions of lives, which had soiled over into Cambodia and would later cause the Cambodian genocide. The Israelis and Arabs had almost brought the world to nuclear extinction. The cold war was still going in full force. The IRA was terrorising Irish streets. Such a carefree time
@@tukicat1399 This has nothing to do with the Bob Dylan song of the same name. The original is by Alphaville. The Bob Dylan and the Alphaville songs just share the same name but are completely different.
1975, I was 13 years old, without a care in the world, the only thing I had to worry about was how to have fun, now 44 years later, I watch this and smile to myself knowing I was there, great times
My partner passed away at 28. This song was played at his funeral. He will always be for me forever young. Our youth and memories will be forever frozen in time. It’s hard to imagine my life moving forward into adulthood and beyond with him just being a memory, a beautiful one. He had an exuberant energy, was boisterous and playful and took risks. He will forever be young in my heart. I wish we could have lived onwards together.
I was there. This was held in 1975. I was 12 years old and mum drove me and a mate to this Skateboard Competition at the Coca Cola Factory that was at Frenches Forest.. I loved Skateboarding back in those early days, the steep hills, and doing hand stands down them on the board at times, was fun ....!!!
Thank you so much Dom, I lived in allambie heights wyarama street just a stones throw away. I remember when I was 6 seeing he footage on tv, mum and dad said it was shot up the road I have been asking everyone if they knew where.... thank you so much. Was it filmed by the ABC news?
There were some beautiful girls in the video right mate? I wonder where they are now, hehe. Anyways, from postkiwi.com: The music video, released this year, shows teenage skateboarders taking part in a contest at the Coca Cola factory at Frenches Forest, Sydney Australia, footage originally shown on Australian youth show GTK (Get To Know) in 1975.
I was there too. I first realised it when they released it, that it looked so familiar. I was a 20 year old with my then boyfriend (now hubby as I am a chick). It was a cool morning and we travelled over the otherside of Sydney to see a friend of ours skate. An acquaintance of my husband's was also skating he appears with the strange looking skateboard which was a modified snow ski. He died not long after this was taken, in a car crash driving back to Sydney from the snow. He was a surfer from Bondi. Most of these kids would have been surfers at the time.
Songs like this are rare. They hit you in the heart each time and tears just come out of no where. I think it's because it's about something all humans and all creatures love and should love...life. Life really is precious and you're so lucky to be who you are; you won a lottery to be born to the life you are given. Always love yourself no matter what person/thing stands in your way
The original is a true story coming from people that were sitting in an underground bunker .,listen to the lyrics ..3 people stayed behind to tell the story ..the rest walked out into the atomic bomb after mass which obviously killed them so they stayed forever young rather than live underground and just wait to die
I miss when people used to be outside and not stuck on their phones , I miss when kids use to ride bikes and not be stuck on tik tok I miss when life wasn’t about phones and people interested with eachother 😔it’s not like that no more
All growing up and being adult really means is that you take responsibility for yourself. Beyond that there's nothing really holding anyone back from remaining a kid at heart and being Forever Young. The problem is so many people loose themselves. They give up who they are at some point for external things like group/societal acceptance, or at least what their own subjective idea about what that is. They let what others think of them, external things, even material things, subjective societal pressures, popular media propaganda, etc, determine what they should be, how and what they should think about, and who they are when those things have absolutely nothing to do with who they really are. And so they remain lost and un-enlightened. Dissociated from themselves and as a result just another sheep in the masses. It's why there are so many people who feel lost and depressed now days. Like an itch they can't scratch. It's why many kids feel so lost and lash out now days! They've been trapped in a cage. Kids can see the bars of the cage but the adult world doesn't see them anymore because they've been a prisoner in them for far too long and have already surrendered to them long ago as bars of their own making. The door is open but they've been inside so long that they don't think they can leave when they're the one who holds the key. It's why songs and videos like this remind so many all about what they used to be when they were still free. Provides a sense of temporary relief. The lie many believe is that they can no longer be free. The truth is that you can! Your reality is what you make it and you are more powerful, important, and special than you can possibly imagine! Be Free, Be enlightened! Be Loving! Be Forever Young!
+Mr. Extreme Well said Mr Extreme. I agree with you. Let there be spirit and freedom, but with compassion and thoughtfulness. Find the happiness in everything and learn from the bad and leave the past int he past, but remember the lesson and also that is what has shaped you and made you you. Best wishes for the New Year.
So many times we are told to be who we aren't, to conform to what society wants, to live a safe life where we go to school, university, get a job, save up and buy a house, and retire 65 having living an ordinary life. Every grown-up you meet, will repeat this same mantra. Being young is just being yourself, and discarding what you are 'supposed' to do. Not caring about what you say or do, and not pretending to be someone else. The moment you stop trying to be who the world wants you to be, is the moment you start enjoying life a lot more.
The darkest moment in my life was when I had no direction. I'm a teacher now. I inspire others daily, help young people create goals, and instill the belief in them that they can be the best they can be, whatever that may be. Married to the woman of my dreams, house, baby on the way. Wouldn't change it for the world. Sometimes it's the little things...
I remember when I was in 5th grade...good times with my grandpa, mentor, bestfreind, woke up to some dr pepper,bacon and eggs on football Sunday, back when the 49ers where with harbaugh and watched 49ers kick ass. Now he he's dead..been 2 years..been struggling with depression for too long. Life changes.
I'd just make some Bacon and eggs but leave out the Dr. Pepper and eat it next to a life size cutout picture of my grandfather. He's not gone he's right there you just can't see or hear him. He's tormented by this.
He rest well man we gave him half that big cricket grin way 2 go redbacks hope zampa gets a world cup gigg if i had it my way j. Gillespie would have 1st delivery love my sa cricket even at bottom
+crixxxxxxxxx Probably not quite 60s. They showed this on Where Are They Now in 2006. The guy in the red jumper fiddling with the wheels at 0:10 was 14 at that time so he would be 54 now, the little kids in the yellow top skating at 2:05 was only 5 so he would now be 46. Some of them who looked like young adults would probably be close to 60.
+Maddy Herne - The first Australian Skateboard Championship at Roxburgh Park Rd Frenchs Forest (Sydney) I was there in the background in one of the shots. Great times. I was 14 going on to 15 at the time. I am 53 now.
Yup, I'm 54. This video is early 70's. The long hair, the banana seat bikes, wooden skateboards, large group gatherings, no parents clinging on because they trusted us, no fighting, ....great days to have been (forever) young in...
AlexDeAustria so sad about you and Johnny. As you can appreciate I have no control over how others react. Unfortunately I have been taken to hell and back and had online and work abuse from various people worldwide since 1998 because of this. I was even accused of hurting you myself! I have been refused jobs too in Australia because of this! It’s been both emotionally stressful and distressing for me. I wish you both well and send you both lots of healing thoughts. Hugs 🤗
I remember playing this song on RUclips shortly after it came out on one of those big ass computers back in 2006. . .I was 10. . .I'm back again in 2016 and turning 20 tomorrow. . .All i can say is, time flies so fucking fast. . .take me back to my youth please! 😢 😢
I was 2 when the original version by Alphaville came out in 84. I remember as I got older my brother playing it on repeat and I loved it. Now THAT is wondering where the time has gone. This is a cool version though.
This song makes me cry every time I hear it, because it played at one of my best friend's funeral. He was tragically taken away at just 19. Rest in peace K.K, you are forever young
I remember hearing this song in middle school when Alphaville released it. I was early 30s when Youth Group did their version, which I think is superior. It is a beautiful, haunting song. Appreciate our lives, not just during the fleeting days of youth, but for the duration of the journey. It is usually the case that only in our advanced years do we finally see how amazing it is to be young.
this song reminds me of a friend of mine who died in 2011 in Northern Rivers of NSW Australia at an intersection at the Lismore Recycling depot. R.I.P. We miss you!
Our time in the sun was great. our 20s self belongs to a decade as does our 30s self. I think we stay there and the new us moves on to the next chapter as we age.
Well at 50 now, I can remember those times, mid to late 70s, Jaws n Mad Max at the drive in with the brothers Sandman panel-van, . . . back then it was great to be alive! And yep, I too had a skateboard!
I remember being a 7 year old kid in Brooklyn reading all the skateboarding magazines and doing the tricks by myself. Spilled a lot, road rash, but still nailed them through practice. My heart was Dogtown, with my Simms deck, neoprene wheels and mailed instructions in pencil from somebody in Cali on how to put them on. I'm 48 now, and still ride. I love when the kids in the park say to me when I'm in my suit: " Mister... You sure you can do this?" I smile, start with a tic tac, gleam the cube, flip the deck and 360. My heart is still young, my body still works and I love when the kids ask me to show them some moves. They don't know my journey... But I relive it every time I get on a good board. Beautiful vid... Thank you.
Goose bumps reading your - I can't ride the board anymore, but happily still tease the kids about how good we were on the roads not smooth bowls - they love taking the p**s back. Stay safe
Childhood and Youth were wonderful without social media, mobile phones or tv platforms. I am so glad and happy that I could live that lost kind of youth. Honestly I would not change that for being young today. We did not have so much entertainment offers, and some dreams were harder to get, but we were much happier with very simple things. This is being forever young to me.
I'm 21 and i already feel old listening to this song. Reminds me of my school days lol. No care and responsibility. I remember when this cover came out in 2006 lol. Fun days. Wind chimes and spring days.
im at work now in front of the PC... its sunday night almost 23:00.... Then I saw this wonderful song. Where did my years go? I have two wonderful daugthers now. One almost 4 the other soon 5 months and a fantastic wife. Life is good... yet I very sorely miss the lightness of my teens and tween years. I miss my old friends from school, college, uni. I miss them all, I miss just living and being with my friends, just not having to be productive all the time but just passing some sweet time and not feeling guilty about it. I very much miss seeing the smug smile of my dad on a sunday morning. I see the sad comments below, of people forced to let go of loved ones far too early....breaks my heart. I sincerely hope youre all good. Ill just listen to this track one more time, to pass some quality time being unproductive, before going back to work because I have a deadline to meet on monday. I hope youre all good.
Those of us who were teenagers in the 90s and before especially relate to this video because we grew up in this type of world; just hanging out with your friends outside, biking, skating hanging out. No smartphone, no TV, no internet. Just each other. I'm class of 1998' and so grateful my teenage years were all in the 90s.
My teens were on the 80’s we had MTV…and TV of course BUT…time with friends were very simple..just enjoy, not mobile phones, not internet, not computers..my bought the first Mac in 88..only was used to write down papers…it was a sophisticated type writer!😅😅😅
Mine were in 2018-2025, and still are. The 80s and 90s must have been amazing. Nowadays, it's just shit. Maybe I'll look back at the 2020s in the year 2050 and think the times were really good, at least compared to 2050. I am growing up in a world, in which Tiktok is rotting youth and everyone is sitting at home playing video games or watching RUclips all day.
i wish it was like this for me too...i really wish kids of my generation liked to do things like this. i want to make the most of our youth which i feel is going to be over soon :/
@@random-zz8ut It's not your fault because you have a technology that you grew up with and it molded you. Back in 1990 if we had the internet and smartphones, we would have ended up the same way.
I cannot think of any other song/film clip that within a few seconds of playing take me back to the 70s and 80s.. A time when we would leave our keys in the car overnight, the front door unlocked and watching quiz shows or playing cards with my parents was the norm. How times have changed... This song always makes me smile and realise life is too short to sweat the small things.. Love it.
nice you mention that thing with the keys...i was born in east germany.people there left house doors open in the 80's you basically had the chance to walk just into every house you would. cause the world was better in the 70's or 80's....i am not sure if we really move into a better time.i think we build more and more walls in our heads with all the political correctness. and this brings us back and not forward
@@oraloni1681 How many of the serial killers walked through unlocked doors and by predators do you mean healthy males who flirt with females instead of sitting on reddit anxiously posting about patriarchy while eating uber eats?
This is what growing up in the 70's was all about - no kneepads or helmets. The only safety equipment was Dads or mums welding/gardening gloves.Just like the kids at the beginning of the video - scrapes and bruises were all part of growing up and to be displayed proudly. I miss those days.
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Idk ‘bout you, but I’ve never seen somebody here wear protective gear while skating not even gloves.
This song makes me feel so nostalgic. I remember wanting to be 18 when I was a kid, now I'm 20 and I would love to live a day in the life of 13 year old me.
AngelzInLuv Oh my gosh I miss my childhood every single day...it's only when time passes so quickly that you realise how much has really changed in your life
I turn 29 in May, if I had realised this is what I would be doing now, god I would have enjoyed being a kid for just a little bit longer. To have no responsibility was an amazing weight off your shoulders.
Eh I'm 21 but shit goes on..you still have the future including 20s and 30s.. it's not over. Not even after that.. nothing wrong with growing old and responsibilities you can still stay a kid at heart.. I hont haven't changed deep down at all but I can tell other people have especially those in their 40s..
*"Forever Young"* [Verse 1] 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 gonna drop the bomb or not? [Verse 2] 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 Music's for the sad men [Verse 3] Can you imagine when this race is run? Turn our golden faces into the sun Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune The music's played by the madmen [Chorus] Forever young, I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever? [Verse 4] Some are like water, some are like the heat Some are the melody, some are the beat Sooner or later they all will be gone Why don't they stay young? [Verse 5] It's hard to get old without a cause I don't want to perish like a fading horse Youth is like diamonds in the sun And diamonds are forever [Chorus] Forever young, I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever? Forever young, I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever? [Instrumental Break] [Chorus] Forever young, I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever? Forever young, I want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever, forever?
@@AllisonGhost I think this song is about the threat of nuclear war so the "golden faces" might not be about the sun or very positive, but it probably can be looked at that way when this version was written
I'd never heard this song until the early hours of this morning and now it will be on my playlist and remind me of Phillip Hughes.May you rest in peace Phil and may your family and all loved ones find some measure of comfort within the pain of your loss in the months and years ahead.Forever young,forever loved and remembered by so many,forever 63 not out.
Mmmhhh, it's a shame you even don't get the whole picture, first: because of listening to this cover a little bit late, because it's from 2006, BUT specially because of listening first to this song, that is a cover, so you don't get the same perspective for it. I was young when the original song by Alphaville came out in 84, and of course I liked it, but had not the experience to tell me more about what this song talks about, but of course I started growing up and then the song got much more meaning, then I went to college, and the first year was really hard, because the first year was particularly hard, so that it could work as a filter, so if you had what it takes to do it wright you could keep going on, but also got into a classroom full of great guys, so it was an intense semester, between very hard work, not sleeping, doing everything possible to go trough, but also full of fun and great moments with new friends, so when the semester finished we were all already great friends, and we knew some of them where not gonna keep at college, and some other would have to wait for the next year to pay their failed classes, and even those who made it may be at different class rooms next semester, so we came out with a video made with our own material recorded that semester and used the original version of Forever Young, so for us this song got a new, very strong meaning, that was in the early 90's, so now when this cover came out in 2006: ¡it made me thing, like you see at the video, with old images, about the same for us from that semester at college, and then you have a whole picture of that nostalgia!! And I bet there are a thousand very similar stories about this song, so I can tell it has a great meaning, specially for guys that listened to the original one at 84
Oscar Fernández medic, this song had a huge impact on my life. The day my daughter was born. 5 rounds of fertility treatment, emotional distress from loosing children from miscarriages, PE in lungs! pre eclampsia, student doc couldn’t find veins, 12 hours of labour, anaesthetist complaining he had to fit me in for an epidural at the end of shift, HTN, T2DM, midwife looking extremely concerned, contractions 3 times in one minute, baby not moving down properly, Christian grey feeling guilty about how he used to treat me, then life saving surgery due to me nearly dying! Caesarean causing a huge hernia! HCA dragging me out of bed for a shower the next morning!!!!! Yep, very much a day to remember! Luckily a child given to me from the gods! I am sure the original was probably better but hey 🙇🏻♀️ went in 90 kg, came out 74 kg. That was a bonus! Sending healing thoughts to jean 🙌🏻
This is one of my favourite songs of all time . This song describes how I feel about life perfectly. :) I don't really want to live forever, but I'm afraid of becoming old.
I’m with ya man. Those blonde kids playing outside all day could easily be me and my neighborhood gang back in 74’. I’d love to go back, just a week…just one week!
haven't listened to this song in ages, but my dog died last night and for some reason this is where my heart drifted, feels like his song... I MISS YOU MALI
A father held a presentation at our school this year. About his son who died in a fight. One punch and the next day his son was gone. The way he told the story was touching and literally everyone had at least tears in their eyes. Next party, nobody was talking about the usual "Imma bash that guy" stuff. At the very end of his story, the father said: My son used to listen to this song on repeat. It's a sad memory now but he got what he wished for. Forever young. It's soothing but painful.
There are no words to really make anyone under the age of 50 understand the damage one rock could do to these old boards wheels. My knees are a mess of scars.
This song reminds Me of My Late Younger Brother - Who died on 14/11/14 ... He was 45 with 16 & 12 yr old Daughters ... He will always be "Forever Young" R.I.P. STU (Love U Bro)
This song actually hits you really hard, right in the spot and makes you think about life, whether the past or even the future; it's sad with a hint of happiness
When I was younger this used to be played early in the morning on rage and before my dad went milking we would sit down and watched this. I will all ways remember this.
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I played this song at my son's funeral 2 weeks ago. he died on his 21st birthday in a road accident. rip my son. u will be forever young. love u miss u.
+JO Schulz So sorry for your loss! But I am happy for your son's being in his next phase of his journey! He's doing great wherever he is I'm sure!
stay strong bro :(
+Vasco Olazabal heart goes out to you :(((
Kita Kat Stay Strong... He is now in a much better place and truly happy forever.
My heart goes out to yourself and your loved ones, and all who knew Him. May G_D and His holy angels protect him and your family, and His friends!
My Father In-Law is in this Music Video. It was Australia's very first Skateboarding competition ever, sponsored by Coca-Cola, aired on ABC, and held in Sydney's Northern Suburbs in 1978, He was 14 years-old. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
That’s awesome
If I remember correctly it was a commercial. This video and song got me reminiscing growing up in Southern California during the 70s and 80s ... Beyond amazing with good memories with the thought of I wish I could just do it all again. 🙏
@@danielavila5081 The footage may have been used in ads as well but what I said is fact. Peace.
@@Blessed2XS That's awesome bet you often watch the video...hope your father in law is still young at heart and still skateboarding lol.. peace
@@danielavila5081 He is indeed! He just made a Skateboard for My Son and wrote Forever Young on the underside. He is the one in the thumbnail and appears in the video 3 times. Peace.
The sad part isn’t growing up, it’s the innocence that we lose through out the years. That’s what I miss the most; the days of innocence and ignorantly enjoying life without a worry. Make the most of your life guys, learn to love, communicate and have meaningful relationships. That’s what it’s all about
this comment will always be a treasure
well said
Mate hope you can live some days without the worrying because thats what Im liviing with, some days just not worth worrying about it.
Fortunately people these days are the best to communicate, love and trust with everything going on, worse thing is the internet ont he phone capabilities of social media, pointless most of it, life goes on. Enjoy it, make a difference, be happy.
@@mydogzty exactly man, I’m learning to not worry and be nonchalant about things, slowly slowly we getting better ❤️🩹
Absolutely. I left it too late to find a new partner or boyfriend. I am a cat elainepaige now. Memories X no more a person attractive to others.
I'm 72 and would love this song to played at my funeral, in about 50 yrs✌️😎❤️
I'm 59 soon and I second that :)
I think I'm 56 but could be 58. I honestly don't want to look it up.
It's my birthday today , 47 , still feel young ish lol
Bless you Tom💜
It’s not death we’re afraid of but death itself
this song hits a lot harder when you realise your childhood is long gone
Q bruto
Mine is only gone 2 months ago. To be honest, nothing has changed, and I still feel like a kid.
Amen!
YES... IT DOES...
The 70s no social media Xbox just come home before dark mum would say.the world is now evil
This song makes me feel sad for some reason
+Tash Kash *Hugs tight* me too, the original video clip was filmed just up the road from where i lived as a child, when I first saw and heard it it meant little, but now? now it just makes me think about lost time and missed childhood and lost opertunities ...
Anyone who says getting old is fun is a liar, I trully, honestly wish I could be forever young....
+Nicky Winters Thing is you choose wether you gona be forever young. Getting old is a concept we created. "Its hard to get old without a cause." Children live only for now :)
Nicky Winters Damn responsibilities :P. Enjoy your day
:) I get goose bumps each time I hear this song.
Plus brings me back to the tv show O.C.
same omeee
My sister took her own life 10 days ago. This will be played at her funeral next week. She never grew old. Always a kid at heart. Forever young.
God bless her sole ❤❤❤😢
I'm sorry for your loss
I'm sorry for your loss, i think perhaps we will meet them again, but not yet.
I’m so sorry for your loss ❤
you have my deepest sympathies. I sincerely hope that you and your family will find peace. Your sis will wait in heaven for you lot.
My husband spent many a day watching this clip before he died of cancer in February this year. We played it at his funeral. He was born and grew up on the Northern Beaches and his dad worked for Warringah Council and helped build this road. I’ve ordered the T Shirt just released for our son. The song makes me sad. It’s haunting but I love it.
So to hear that be strong 🙋♀️🌺
I was raised in Qld and had the same experience. It's kinda eerie to watch as it's a snapshot of our youth that is long gone as the sunset of life is coming into view....
It may mean nothing Bernadette. Empathy and compassion from Brisbane Australia 🙏
Sorry for your loss Bernadette, I'm sure you and your son make him proud x
I believe its French's forest? Would I be wrong? My dad knew the area by watching this clip.
Sorry for your loss
Time felt so slow when I was little. From 1996 to 2006 was only 10 years but it seemed like 100 years to me. However from 2006 to 2016... time really flies, damn
+Thang Nguyen I know.... It is scary. I see it on my kids, the grow so fast :-o
Same age as you, relates to me exactly. Embrace time, make the most of it, before you know it we will both be old.
time has definitely not been linear for me these past 27 years I have been on this earth
I'm going into my final year of schooling and my parents are moving away to study while I remain where I live to stay at the same school. Life changes so drastically it's frightening
ik i was like 4 and since then i have always listened to it and time dose fly
One of the guys in this video is a builder now and built part of my house, this song came on the radio while he was working and was telling us about this day of filming and thats what they all use to do back then, skate around get dirty and come home when the street lights turn on, those were the days...
èys krém that is cool
I was eight years old when he was building my kitchen which was 8 years ago, he looked like he was early to mid 40's
That's sad how the old days have changed
***** im not too sure on that!
Tom Warren17 i know, everyone was so nice to each other
Played this song at my 19 year old daughters funeral. Still brings me to my knees.
RIP my precious darling Max.
Forever young 💙💔
😔
Sorry Fiona i
Sending love from Australia
Aw. 🙏🏽 ❤️. May she be resting in peace.
I am so sorry for your loss. I hope your ok. jo sargeant australia
As an Aussie every single time I hear this song I instantly have flashbacks of my childhood. Bloody miss those days
This is the second national anthem for Australia ❤🇦🇺
Ditto.
mate is this song meant to be in the late 60s or 70s looks like it was fun and simpler times back then
Ok
Bogan Aussie
Growing old is a privilege and a life blessing, there’s nothing wrong with growing old, not everyone has that opportunity.
True. My two little brothers were killed aged 24 and 27. The older one would’ve been 50 today. He would’ve hated that. Forever young is the one good thing to come of it all. 😢
This song makes me sad for some reason. Maybe the fact that we all must grow up is the greatest sorrow of all
+ThatYKEE™ Live your life and be happy. Listen to your heart, that's what this song is about i think. "Do you really want to live forever?" Everything is so much more important and everything is so much more beautiful because we will die. We will grow up, and grow old and then we die. And it's a gift man not a curse, a precious gift, we can hold close to our hearts because we get to cherish our family and friends everyday who give meaning to our lives. And hold deep in our hearts the loved ones who have left us.
+coolmountains25 best youtube comment ever
It's a bitch, part of
Me wishes I was 2 again no pain but, that would be boring as hell and u gotta grow up and get through life but damn
ja
Growing up and growing old is no sorrow. I’ve known too many people, who’ve died very young, so to me growing older is a precious gift and I welcome every wrinkle and grey hair. Aging faces are beautiful to me and laughter lines even more so.
Grew up in Australia in the 1970s. Great time to be a teenager. School holidays with long hot summers at the beach, and outdoors with mates from sunrise to sunset. In fact, on any given clear day most kids were outdoors, riding their bikes, playing sports or at the beach checking out the surf and the opposite sex!
Remember roaming pine plantations, and tea tree scrub plantations with fishing rod in one hand, and air gun in the other.
No future generations will experience that. Ever.
Sad.
Yep. Summers you could plan well in advance because the weather was actually steadier.
Home by the time the lights came on.
Exploring and just being kids.
How did this latest lot of parents that grew up with that life allow themselves to get scared so much into ruining the last couple of generations childhoods. I shake my head.
i want a life like this...
1958 to 1994 was probably the golden age in Australia
80s and 90s brisbane good times
This song makes me nostalgic for things I never did as a child.
Same
Josie do not lose more time!! Do right now!!
@@javiermurgapayo8269 when I say things I never did as a child... its things that as an adult wouldn't be the same. Things that would only seem wild and exciting when you're young. It's just nostalgia.. like watching 1980s home movies.
@@josie50000 thank you for the clarification. Do it again, do not worry for the age !! Believe me, you will feel like you were young because all of us want to be ... Forever young
same here...im getting future nostalgia
This Skateboarding was held in the Winter of 1975 near the Coca Cola Factory at Rodborough Rd., Frenchs Forest on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia.
It captures perfectly the then more carefree and innocent era of 1975 .....when we were Young!
Did you attend this!!
Yeah, carefree. the Americans had just gotten out of a war that cost millions of lives, which had soiled over into Cambodia and would later cause the Cambodian genocide. The Israelis and Arabs had almost brought the world to nuclear extinction. The cold war was still going in full force. The IRA was terrorising Irish streets. Such a carefree time
I was 15.
I was 8, all I wanted was a skateboard
@@lisaturner7881 me too
One of the rare times a cover is just as good as the original
actually better!
Yeah the vocals are better.
Sometimes i think the blonde kid in the green tshirt is me. Spitting image!
technically Bob Dylan wrote and sang it first, Alphaville re recorded in around 84, this is by far the better version and clip
@@tukicat1399 This has nothing to do with the Bob Dylan song of the same name. The original is by Alphaville. The Bob Dylan and the Alphaville songs just share the same name but are completely different.
1975, I was 13 years old, without a care in the world, the only thing I had to worry about was how to have fun, now 44 years later, I watch this and smile to myself knowing I was there, great times
My partner passed away at 28. This song was played at his funeral. He will always be for me forever young. Our youth and memories will be forever frozen in time. It’s hard to imagine my life moving forward into adulthood and beyond with him just being a memory, a beautiful one.
He had an exuberant energy, was boisterous and playful and took risks. He will forever be young in my heart. I wish we could have lived onwards together.
I hope you're well 2 years later. That's incredibly sad. If you don't mind my asking, how did he die?
dont ask.....@@concars1234
I was there. This was held in 1975. I was 12 years old and mum drove me and a mate to this Skateboard Competition at the Coca Cola Factory that was at Frenches Forest.. I loved Skateboarding back in those early days, the steep hills, and doing hand stands down them on the board at times, was fun ....!!!
Thank you so much Dom, I lived in allambie heights wyarama street just a stones throw away. I remember when I was 6 seeing he footage on tv, mum and dad said it was shot up the road I have been asking everyone if they knew where.... thank you so much. Was it filmed by the ABC news?
There were some beautiful girls in the video right mate? I wonder where they are now, hehe. Anyways, from postkiwi.com:
The music video, released this year, shows teenage skateboarders taking part in a contest at the Coca Cola factory at Frenches Forest, Sydney Australia, footage originally shown on Australian youth show GTK (Get To Know) in 1975.
I was there too. I first realised it when they released it, that it looked so familiar. I was a 20 year old with my then boyfriend (now hubby as I am a chick). It was a cool morning and we travelled over the otherside of Sydney to see a friend of ours skate. An acquaintance of my husband's was also skating he appears with the strange looking skateboard which was a modified snow ski. He died not long after this was taken, in a car crash driving back to Sydney from the snow. He was a surfer from Bondi. Most of these kids would have been surfers at the time.
My dad was there and seeing this makes me so happy!! Forever young
@@speedysteve5229 wow that sucks..I heard a sinilt commemt about that guy in another commemt but didn't realize it was just after the video..damn..
Songs like this are rare.
They hit you in the heart each time and tears just come out of no where.
I think it's because it's about something all humans and all creatures love and should love...life.
Life really is precious and you're so lucky to be who you are; you won a lottery to be born to the life you are given. Always love yourself no matter what person/thing stands in your way
Ms.Mystery it cant be rare if its a cover man
@@mrjackbilbo In my opinion this one is better than the original. This one is sadder then the original, I do love the original but this one hits home.
not afraid to admit this, hits you like a tone of bricks... literally the youth drifts away..
The original is a true story coming from people that were sitting in an underground bunker .,listen to the lyrics ..3 people stayed behind to tell the story ..the rest walked out into the atomic bomb after mass which obviously killed them so they stayed forever young rather than live underground and just wait to die
Your comment is still helping!
I miss when people used to be outside and not stuck on their phones , I miss when kids use to ride bikes and not be stuck on tik tok I miss when life wasn’t about phones and people interested with eachother 😔it’s not like that no more
We played this for my fathers funeral and today it’s been three weeks since he has passed I’ll always miss you dad ❤️
All growing up and being adult really means is that you take responsibility for yourself. Beyond that there's nothing really holding anyone back from remaining a kid at heart and being Forever Young. The problem is so many people loose themselves. They give up who they are at some point for external things like group/societal acceptance, or at least what their own subjective idea about what that is. They let what others think of them, external things, even material things, subjective societal pressures, popular media propaganda, etc, determine what they should be, how and what they should think about, and who they are when those things have absolutely nothing to do with who they really are. And so they remain lost and un-enlightened. Dissociated from themselves and as a result just another sheep in the masses. It's why there are so many people who feel lost and depressed now days. Like an itch they can't scratch. It's why many kids feel so lost and lash out now days! They've been trapped in a cage. Kids can see the bars of the cage but the adult world doesn't see them anymore because they've been a prisoner in them for far too long and have already surrendered to them long ago as bars of their own making. The door is open but they've been inside so long that they don't think they can leave when they're the one who holds the key. It's why songs and videos like this remind so many all about what they used to be when they were still free. Provides a sense of temporary relief. The lie many believe is that they can no longer be free. The truth is that you can! Your reality is what you make it and you are more powerful, important, and special than you can possibly imagine! Be Free, Be enlightened! Be Loving! Be Forever Young!
agreed
+Mr. Extreme Yes man! Nailed it!
+Mr. Extreme Well said Mr Extreme. I agree with you. Let there be spirit and freedom, but with compassion and thoughtfulness. Find the happiness in everything and learn from the bad and leave the past int he past, but remember the lesson and also that is what has shaped you and made you you. Best wishes for the New Year.
+Mr. Extreme Deep
Aloha from Greece my friend!
So many times we are told to be who we aren't, to conform to what society wants, to live a safe life where we go to school, university, get a job, save up and buy a house, and retire 65 having living an ordinary life.
Every grown-up you meet, will repeat this same mantra.
Being young is just being yourself, and discarding what you are 'supposed' to do. Not caring about what you say or do, and not pretending to be someone else.
The moment you stop trying to be who the world wants you to be, is the moment you start enjoying life a lot more.
+Bolton Bass Well put, man.
not me, my friend, not me... :)
Why be "normal" when you can be yourself?
The darkest moment in my life was when I had no direction. I'm a teacher now. I inspire others daily, help young people create goals, and instill the belief in them that they can be the best they can be, whatever that may be. Married to the woman of my dreams, house, baby on the way. Wouldn't change it for the world. Sometimes it's the little things...
Snap out of it you lot. Whose gonna pay your bills and look after you and your family? The fairy god mother?
Freedom has responsibility. I feel Auusies have forgotten this. I did for a while... Now I pay. For how long I do not know.
keep riding those skateboards ppl, will keep you young
This was my time of growing up. Barefoot, without helmets, padding, cell phones, fentanyl or guns. We have lost a lot.
Well...protection never is something like a lost.
But we gained shoes, helmets, padding, cell phones, fentanyl and guns!
2006 feels like yesterday
I remember when I was in 5th grade...good times with my grandpa, mentor, bestfreind, woke up to some dr pepper,bacon and eggs on football Sunday, back when the 49ers where with harbaugh and watched 49ers kick ass. Now he he's dead..been 2 years..been struggling with depression for too long. Life changes.
+Cade Kennedy you will be okay mate just try to stay happy
I'd just make some Bacon and eggs but leave out the Dr. Pepper and eat it next to a life size cutout picture of my grandfather. He's not gone he's right there you just can't see or hear him. He's tormented by this.
damn, why did u fucking had to?
Haha - 1975 feels like yesterday - I was there when this was filmed :-)
RIP Phil Hughes
63 not out. A true gentleman and great cricketer, you will be missed mate.
Forever not out
MrCelticbhoy96wait wait, this was 3 years ago? WHAT?! Where does the time go?? It doesn't feel like 3 years
He rest well man we gave him half that big cricket grin way 2 go redbacks hope zampa gets a world cup gigg if i had it my way j. Gillespie would have 1st delivery love my sa cricket even at bottom
God damn, it’s been 6 years since Phil died! That’s crazy.
God was that 8 years ago?
if they don’t play this at my funeral, i’m not going.
The OC in our hearts ❤
All those kids are in their 50s or 60s today.
some men just want to watch the world burn
+crixxxxxxxxx Probably not quite 60s. They showed this on Where Are They Now in 2006. The guy in the red jumper fiddling with the wheels at 0:10 was 14 at that time so he would be 54 now, the little kids in the yellow top skating at 2:05 was only 5 so he would now be 46. Some of them who looked like young adults would probably be close to 60.
+Maddy Herne - The first Australian Skateboard Championship at Roxburgh Park Rd Frenchs Forest (Sydney) I was there in the background in one of the shots. Great times. I was 14 going on to 15 at the time. I am 53 now.
Yup, I'm 54. This video is early 70's. The long hair, the banana seat bikes, wooden skateboards, large group gatherings, no parents clinging on because they trusted us, no fighting, ....great days to have been (forever) young in...
Even Tony Hawk is 50
Who else is watching "The O.C." again and again? :D
Best series ever
Me
I tried untill i found out that ''chilli'' or what's his name... killed someone in real life.. can't see that season ever again :D
Me! :)
AlexDeAustria.....bro.OH HELL NOO
AlexDeAustria so sad about you and Johnny. As you can appreciate I have no control over how others react. Unfortunately I have been taken to hell and back and had online and work abuse from various people worldwide since 1998 because of this. I was even accused of hurting you myself! I have been refused jobs too in Australia because of this! It’s been both emotionally stressful and distressing for me.
I wish you both well and send you both lots of healing thoughts. Hugs 🤗
Maybe we won't live forever, but one thing's for sure... this song will 💓🎶
I remember playing this song on RUclips shortly after it came out on one of those big ass computers back in 2006. . .I was 10. . .I'm back again in 2016 and turning 20 tomorrow. . .All i can say is, time flies so fucking fast. . .take me back to my youth please! 😢 😢
Welcome to life.
I was 2 when the original version by Alphaville came out in 84. I remember as I got older my brother playing it on repeat and I loved it. Now THAT is wondering where the time has gone.
This is a cool version though.
Change your profile picture it looks really bad
@@katcookefl who asked lol
This song makes me cry every time I hear it, because it played at one of my best friend's funeral. He was tragically taken away at just 19. Rest in peace K.K, you are forever young
Hands down my favorite song and music video of all time. Keep coming back, and it’s just as magical every time.
I remember hearing this song in middle school when Alphaville released it. I was early 30s when Youth Group did their version, which I think is superior. It is a beautiful, haunting song. Appreciate our lives, not just during the fleeting days of youth, but for the duration of the journey. It is usually the case that only in our advanced years do we finally see how amazing it is to be young.
Happiness is a mythical state attributed to children by adults and by adults to children. - Thomas Szasz
R.I.P Phillip Hughes.
Over 7 months now, still can't believe it...
63 not out forever.
Watch over us mate.
this song reminds me of a friend of mine who died in 2011 in Northern Rivers of NSW Australia at an intersection at the Lismore Recycling depot. R.I.P. We miss you!
Yeah, I know the person you are talking about! Such a sad event! :(
Please accept my deepest condolences :-(
This song rings true .. as I head for 70, I try to see the kid I used to be...where has he gone. Time is fleeting...
Our time in the sun was great. our 20s self belongs to a decade as does our 30s self. I think we stay there and the new us moves on to the next chapter as we age.
This song will never get old who agrees with me??
Me I want it played at my funeral
Me 100% love this song ❤❤
Well at 50 now, I can remember those times, mid to late 70s, Jaws n Mad Max at the drive in with the brothers Sandman panel-van, . . . back then it was great to be alive!
And yep, I too had a skateboard!
too*
:)
***** Give him a break, he was too busy skating to bother with school.
omfgstupid Haha, true. Glad he fixed the error though :L
Grammar Nazis! :P
Just thought it was a fairly stupid mistake for someone who is 50 years old to make.
I remember being a 7 year old kid in Brooklyn reading all the skateboarding magazines and doing the tricks by myself. Spilled a lot, road rash, but still nailed them through practice. My heart was Dogtown, with my Simms deck, neoprene wheels and mailed instructions in pencil from somebody in Cali on how to put them on. I'm 48 now, and still ride. I love when the kids in the park say to me when I'm in my suit: " Mister... You sure you can do this?" I smile, start with a tic tac, gleam the cube, flip the deck and 360. My heart is still young, my body still works and I love when the kids ask me to show them some moves. They don't know my journey... But I relive it every time I get on a good board. Beautiful vid... Thank you.
Goose bumps reading your - I can't ride the board anymore, but happily still tease the kids about how good we were on the roads not smooth bowls - they love taking the p**s back. Stay safe
That's beautiful man
Childhood and Youth were wonderful without social media, mobile phones or tv platforms. I am so glad and happy that I could live that lost kind of youth. Honestly I would not change that for being young today. We did not have so much entertainment offers, and some dreams were harder to get, but we were much happier with very simple things. This is being forever young to me.
“One day life’s gonna flash before your eyes make sure it’s worth watching”
Jesus. That just made me cry.
I'm 21 and i already feel old listening to this song. Reminds me of my school days lol. No care and responsibility.
I remember when this cover came out in 2006 lol. Fun days. Wind chimes and spring days.
How's it going now??
@@klickety4487 Was gonna ask that too
Hey mate. Stay as young as you want to be, screw the number. I'm still gonna be scuba diving and slaying riffs on my guitar when im 60! 🎉❤️
Im all good guys. I was very immature back then, when i posted this comment lmao.
@@timk6041 hahaha nice
Best Song Ever.
+Johnny Blink I agree
+Johnny Blink same
Amen
and now we stuck at home during quarantine, miss old days
im at work now in front of the PC... its sunday night almost 23:00.... Then I saw this wonderful song. Where did my years go? I have two wonderful daugthers now. One almost 4 the other soon 5 months and a fantastic wife. Life is good... yet I very sorely miss the lightness of my teens and tween years. I miss my old friends from school, college, uni. I miss them all, I miss just living and being with my friends, just not having to be productive all the time but just passing some sweet time and not feeling guilty about it. I very much miss seeing the smug smile of my dad on a sunday morning. I see the sad comments below, of people forced to let go of loved ones far too early....breaks my heart. I sincerely hope youre all good. Ill just listen to this track one more time, to pass some quality time being unproductive, before going back to work because I have a deadline to meet on monday. I hope youre all good.
RIP Phil Hughes 63 not out
2 years goes so quick...
Rest in Peace Phillip Hughes.
63 Not Out Forever.
This song makes me so fucking happy!! It makes me think how we should be living life while we are young and not take a moment for granted
Those of us who were teenagers in the 90s and before especially relate to this video because we grew up in this type of world; just hanging out with your friends outside, biking, skating hanging out. No smartphone, no TV, no internet. Just each other. I'm class of 1998' and so grateful my teenage years were all in the 90s.
My teens were on the 80’s we had MTV…and TV of course BUT…time with friends were very simple..just enjoy, not mobile phones, not internet, not computers..my bought the first Mac in 88..only was used to write down papers…it was a sophisticated type writer!😅😅😅
Mine were in 2018-2025, and still are. The 80s and 90s must have been amazing. Nowadays, it's just shit. Maybe I'll look back at the 2020s in the year 2050 and think the times were really good, at least compared to 2050. I am growing up in a world, in which Tiktok is rotting youth and everyone is sitting at home playing video games or watching RUclips all day.
i wish it was like this for me too...i really wish kids of my generation liked to do things like this. i want to make the most of our youth which i feel is going to be over soon :/
@@random-zz8ut It's not your fault because you have a technology that you grew up with and it molded you. Back in 1990 if we had the internet and smartphones, we would have ended up the same way.
I've listened to so many covers of this song but this one, this just hits me hard. Makes me feel nostalgic and sad at the same time. Best I've heard.
Yes totally agree with you
RIP Phillip Hughes, we will miss you mate.
This song hits me deep. Evokes so many memories. Wondering at 60. where did life ho. 😢
Every time I hear this buetiful classic I think of my mates I have lost over the years who will be forever young.
I cannot think of any other song/film clip that within a few seconds of playing take me back to the 70s and 80s.. A time when we would leave our keys in the car overnight, the front door unlocked and watching quiz shows or playing cards with my parents was the norm. How times have changed... This song always makes me smile and realise life is too short to sweat the small things.. Love it.
nice you mention that thing with the keys...i was born in east germany.people there left house doors open in the 80's
you basically had the chance to walk just into every house you would.
cause the world was better in the 70's or 80's....i am not sure if we really move into a better time.i think we build more and more walls in our heads with all the political correctness.
and this brings us back and not forward
Yup, those were the times .. The golden age of serial killers and predators
@@oraloni1681 How many of the serial killers walked through unlocked doors and by predators do you mean healthy males who flirt with females instead of sitting on reddit anxiously posting about patriarchy while eating uber eats?
R.I.P Phillip Hughes forever not out, forever young and forever remembered.
This is what growing up in the 70's was all about - no kneepads or helmets. The only safety equipment was Dads or mums welding/gardening gloves.Just like the kids at the beginning of the video - scrapes and bruises were all part of growing up and to be displayed proudly. I miss those days.
Idk ‘bout you, but I’ve never seen somebody here wear protective gear while skating not even gloves.
This makes us sad because we watch this and think of our childhood and how we are never going to have those beautiful memories again
The worst part of life is growing up
XxAUSSIEGAMERxX could'nt agree more
+XxAUSSIEGAMERxX The worst part of life is life..
growing up is not the only problem, forgetting is.
That is so very true.
You choose to grow up ;) be defiant
This song makes me feel so nostalgic. I remember wanting to be 18 when I was a kid, now I'm 20 and I would love to live a day in the life of 13 year old me.
AngelzInLuv Oh my gosh I miss my childhood every single day...it's only when time passes so quickly that you realise how much has really changed in your life
I turn 29 in May, if I had realised this is what I would be doing now, god I would have enjoyed being a kid for just a little bit longer.
To have no responsibility was an amazing weight off your shoulders.
@@teganboundy9263 exactly .
Eh I'm 21 but shit goes on..you still have the future including 20s and 30s.. it's not over. Not even after that.. nothing wrong with growing old and responsibilities you can still stay a kid at heart.. I hont haven't changed deep down at all but I can tell other people have especially those in their 40s..
Now you are 27
sending love to all those out there who have lost a child and played this at their funeral
I seem to cry every time I hear this song but I love it😥❤️
The same here😪
RIP Dear Phillip Joel Hughes. We will always love you and will always cherish your cheeky grins and your commitment to the game Cricket.
This cover is beautiful. So is the video..
Julián Alvarez 2018????
2018 here, this version feels so sad
*"Forever Young"*
[Verse 1]
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 gonna drop the bomb or not?
[Verse 2]
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
Music's for the sad men
[Verse 3]
Can you imagine when this race is run?
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
The music's played by the madmen
[Chorus]
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever?
[Verse 4]
Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are the melody, some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?
[Verse 5]
It's hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth is like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
[Chorus]
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever?
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever, forever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever?
Wow, thank you so much for sharing the song's lyrics with us. I love it.👌👍💕😍💕
I always thought it was "old faces", not "golden faces". The former seems more meaningful, might stick with that. 😄
@@PvtParts14 it's definitely "Golden" just checked. :P presumably as a way of describing the sunlight hitting their skin in a positive way
@@AllisonGhost I think this song is about the threat of nuclear war so the "golden faces" might not be about the sun or very positive, but it probably can be looked at that way when this version was written
Thx for helping the deaf people lmao
This song captures growing up as a kid in Byron in the 70s.
I'd never heard this song until the early hours of this morning and now it will be on my playlist and remind me of Phillip Hughes.May you rest in peace Phil and may your family and all loved ones find some measure of comfort within the pain of your loss in the months and years ahead.Forever young,forever loved and remembered by so many,forever 63 not out.
Mmmhhh, it's a shame you even don't get the whole picture, first: because of listening to this cover a little bit late, because it's from 2006, BUT specially because of listening first to this song, that is a cover, so you don't get the same perspective for it. I was young when the original song by Alphaville came out in 84, and of course I liked it, but had not the experience to tell me more about what this song talks about, but of course I started growing up and then the song got much more meaning, then I went to college, and the first year was really hard, because the first year was particularly hard, so that it could work as a filter, so if you had what it takes to do it wright you could keep going on, but also got into a classroom full of great guys, so it was an intense semester, between very hard work, not sleeping, doing everything possible to go trough, but also full of fun and great moments with new friends, so when the semester finished we were all already great friends, and we knew some of them where not gonna keep at college, and some other would have to wait for the next year to pay their failed classes, and even those who made it may be at different class rooms next semester, so we came out with a video made with our own material recorded that semester and used the original version of Forever Young, so for us this song got a new, very strong meaning, that was in the early 90's, so now when this cover came out in 2006: ¡it made me thing, like you see at the video, with old images, about the same for us from that semester at college, and then you have a whole picture of that nostalgia!!
And I bet there are a thousand very similar stories about this song, so I can tell it has a great meaning, specially for guys that listened to the original one at 84
I actually prefer the original
Oscar Fernández medic, this song had a huge impact on my life. The day my daughter was born. 5 rounds of fertility treatment, emotional distress from loosing children from miscarriages, PE in lungs! pre eclampsia, student doc couldn’t find veins, 12 hours of labour, anaesthetist complaining he had to fit me in for an epidural at the end of shift, HTN, T2DM, midwife looking extremely concerned, contractions 3 times in one minute, baby not moving down properly, Christian grey feeling guilty about how he used to treat me, then life saving surgery due to me nearly dying! Caesarean causing a huge hernia! HCA dragging me out of bed for a shower the next morning!!!!! Yep, very much a day to remember! Luckily a child given to me from the gods! I am sure the original was probably better but hey 🙇🏻♀️ went in 90 kg, came out 74 kg. That was a bonus! Sending healing thoughts to jean 🙌🏻
This is one of my favourite songs of all time . This song describes how I feel about life perfectly. :) I don't really want to live forever, but I'm afraid of becoming old.
Same here.
Brilliant song - takes me back to the fabulous 1970's - the Surfie era. Carefree and having fun!
I’m with ya man. Those blonde kids playing outside all day could easily be me and my neighborhood gang back in 74’. I’d love to go back, just a week…just one week!
One of my favourite "songs". Evokes a strong sense of nostalgia for something unreachable every time..
haven't listened to this song in ages, but my dog died last night and for some reason this is where my heart drifted, feels like his song... I MISS YOU MALI
It is an anazing song! Many prayers to those who have lost loved ones and this song says it all!
I can remember being in early primary school, dad was watching this on MTV and I really didn’t understand the meaning. Now I do.
A father held a presentation at our school this year. About his son who died in a fight. One punch and the next day his son was gone. The way he told the story was touching and literally everyone had at least tears in their eyes. Next party, nobody was talking about the usual "Imma bash that guy" stuff.
At the very end of his story, the father said: My son used to listen to this song on repeat. It's a sad memory now but he got what he wished for. Forever young. It's soothing but painful.
Waking up at 6:30am on a Saturday or Sunday to this playing on Rage. Yep, you were born in the 90's.
The simplicity, sweetness and sentimentality of this superb song is sublime.
Absolutely the best version of this song
This song was played at my best friend's funeral as we were walking him out, he died at 24 last year, love ya brother x
The best Forever Young song
There are no words to really make anyone under the age of 50 understand the damage one rock could do to these old boards wheels. My knees are a mess of scars.
i miss her and those days...i wish we could stay forever young
Brings Back Memories
100% memories of being 17 not a care in the world.
Ahh the awesome good old days when kid were kids boys were boys and girls were girls .😊
Acabei de ouvir em berlim ❤
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I did too ❤
This is one of the best music videos.
This song reminds Me of My Late Younger Brother - Who died on 14/11/14 ...
He was 45 with 16 & 12 yr old Daughters ...
He will always be "Forever Young"
R.I.P. STU (Love U Bro)
This song actually hits you really hard, right in the spot and makes you think about life, whether the past or even the future; it's sad with a hint of happiness
When I was younger this used to be played early in the morning on rage and before my dad went milking we would sit down and watched this. I will all ways remember this.
Not just a video ... This is a celebration of life
Forever young best version❤👍
This was growing up in the '70's. True classic.
OC for life!!!!. RIP Marissa
1981 baby. Growing up in the 90s. Life was simpler back then❤
After seeing 2020, i realized life is really a short trip.
Simple, but not simplistic, video...Profound song that never gets old.