| Youth Group – Forever Young Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Well I'm from Germany, from the west part of Berlin and this song really REALLY resonates with me. I was born in 1970 during the height of the Cold War and I grew up with the spectre of nuclear war always overhead. While a lot of the younger generation who didn't live through the Cold War link this to either Ryan and Marissa or to graduation, for me it's really about living life to the fullest because during those days when i was 12, 15, 18, we weren't watching the OC, we were trying to live our lives knowing that if the US and USSR ever went to war our country would be the first to get bombed, by both of them. And that was totally out of our control. That's what this song is about to me, about the fragility of life under the shadow of two superpowers. Also it should say "if this race is won" because if someone did "win" by getting their bombs off first, "turn our golden faces to the sun" is an allusion to a nuclear explosion which for a split second can rival the heat of the sun. Essentially it is saying, we don't want to live under this shadow for our whole lives...we didn't want to live under the shadow of fear. Better we be bombed so that our youth remains forever, like diamonds in the sun, than to be put down like an old racehorse. And that sentiment I guess transcends generations, then and now. |
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| Scorpions – Wind Of Change Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song means a lot to me too, I'm from West Berlin. I was 19 when the Brandenburg Gate was opened in November 1989 and we all ran through the cordon of soldiers and stepped on East German soil for the first time in our lives. Our whole lives before that had been lived under the spectre of nuclear war. The start of the 1990s with the reunification of our country, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Wall, the freeing of the Warsaw Pact countries, was so full of hope and possibilities. I remember thinking that this was the year my life REALLY began. I still cry when I hear this song. | |
| Scorpions – Wind Of Change Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song means a lot to me too, I'm from West Berlin. I was 19 when the Brandenburg Gate was opened in November 1989 and we all ran through the cordon of soldiers and stepped on East German soil for the first time in our lives. Our whole lives before that had been lived under the spectre of nuclear war. The start of the 1990s with the reunification of our country, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Wall, the freeing of the Warsaw Pact countries, was so full of hope and possibilities. I remember thinking that this was the year my life REALLY began. I still cry when I hear this song. | |
| Alphaville – Forever Young Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Also, it's characteristic of quite a few songs from this era: - 99 Luftballons (about someone who lets off 99 red ballons in Berlin and military folk mistake it for an attack and destroy the city - 1999 (about partying because of the risk of nuclear war) - Wind of Change (Scorpions, another great German band) - about the fall of communism. For the record, I was there at the Brandenburg Gate in November 1989 when the Berlin Wall "fell" (it didn't actually fall that year it was demolished the year after but the gate was opened in 1989). This song was played during the celebrations that day and I will never forget it! |
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| Alphaville – Forever Young Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Well I'm from Germany, from the west part of Berlin and this song really REALLY resonates with me. I was born in 1970 during the height of the Cold War and I grew up with the spectre of nuclear war always overhead. While a lot of the younger generation who didn't live through the Cold War see this as more of a graduation song, for me it's really about living life to the fullest because during those days when i was 12, 15, 18, we knew that if the US and USSR ever went to war our country would be the first to get bombed. That's what this song is about, about the fragility of life under the shadow of two superpowers. Also it should say "if this race is won" because if someone does "win" by getting their bombs off first, "turn our golden faces to the sun" is an allusion to a nuclear explosion which for a split second can rival the heat of the sun. Essentially it is saying, we don't want to live under this shadow for our whole lives...better we be bombed so that our youth remains forever, like diamonds, than to be put down like an old racehorse. |
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| Alphaville – Forever Young Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Well I'm from Germany, from the west part of Berlin and this song really REALLY resonates with me. I was born in 1970 during the height of the Cold War and I grew up with the spectre of nuclear war always overhead. While a lot of the younger generation who didn't live through the Cold War see this as more of a graduation song, for me it's really about living life to the fullest because during those days when i was 12, 15, 18, we knew that if the US and USSR ever went to war our country would be the first to get bombed. That's what this song is about, about the fragility of life under the shadow of two superpowers. Also it should say "if this race is won" because "turn our golden faces to the sun" is an allusion to a nuclear explosion which for a split second can rival the heat of the sun. Essentially it is saying, we don't want to live under this shadow for our whole lives...better we be bombed so that our youth remains forever, like diamonds, than to be put down like an old racehorse. |
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