Goto the wind, though the wind won't help you fly at all
Your back's to the wall
Then chase the sun, and it tears away and it breaks you as you run,
You run, you run!

So live for today
Tomorrow never comes
Die young

Behind the smile, there's danger and a promise to be told:
You never knew.
Life's fantasy, to be locked away and still to think you're free
You're free, we're free!

So live for today
Tomorrow never comes
Die young

Die young, die young
Can't you see the writing on the wall?
Die young, gonna die young
Someone stopped the pain

Goto the wind, though the wind won't help you fly at all
Your back's to the wall
Then chase the sun, and it tears away and it breaks you as you run,
You run, you run!

So live for today
Tomorrow never comes

Die young, young!
Die young, die young!
Die young, die young, young!
Die young, die young, die young, die young, die young!


Lyrics submitted by carlos_avdas, edited by Eskwyre, 42254125125

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    xa...friends...you're confused!

    first of all i have to say that geezer signs this lyrics..it a story he say in many albums of sabbath.

    die young is locked lyrics, written when he at this time is a middle-aged man. He Knows!!!!!

    i have to say that Geezer say a story and this can be found at erlier songs like 'national acrobat'(see my comments) and others like 'killing yourself to live', 'Children of the grave', etc

    The sense of 'die young' is that you, as a child (only when are you young have this possibility) have the chance to change your life.

    gezzer knows that we born as slaves and propose a way to kill our slavery, not physical by commiting suicide but trying to kill the slave we have inside!!!!

    Briliant Geezer!!! Son of man!!!!!

    ydrohoos.gr

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