Alphaville - Forever Young

Chords

Standard

Intro: C    G    Am    F    G    Dm    F    Am    C

 

Verse:
C               G
Let’s dance in style, let’s dance 
      Am
for a while
           F
Heaven can wait, we’re only 
              G
watching the skies
               Dm                       F
Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst
                          Am           G        C
Are you going to drop the bomb or not? 

 
C          G                      Am
Let us die young or let us live forever
                  F                       G
We don’t have the power, but we never say never
             Dm                   F
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
                    Am        G         C
The music’s for the sad men        

 
C        G                       Am
Can you imagine when this race is won ? 
                F              G
Turn our golden faces into the sun
             Dm                          F
Praising our leaders, we’re getting in tune
                          Am      G
The music’s played by the mad   men

 

Chorus:
C        G               Am          F
Forever young, I want to be forever  young
G                      Dm            F      G
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
C        G               Am          F
Forever young, I want to be forever young
G                     Dm             F      G        C      
Do you really want to live forever, forever forever young 
        

 

Verse:
C              G                        Am
Some are like water, some are like the heat,
           F                        G
some are a Melody and some are the beat
          Dm                       F
Sooner or later, they all will be gone,
                    Am       G    C
why don’t they stay young?

 
C                    G             Am
It’s so hard to get old without a cause, 
                F                     G
I don’t want to perish like a fading horse 
             Dm                F
Youth’s like diamonds in the sun 
                   Am    G        C
and diamonds are forever


C         G                         Am
So many adventures couldn’t happen today,
        F                  G
so many songs we forgot to play 
        Dm                          F
So many dreams swinging out of the blue,
                 Am     G         C
we let them come true     

 


Chorus:
C        G               Am          F
Forever young, I want to be forever  young
G                      Dm            F      G
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
C        G               Am          F
Forever young, I want to be forever young
G                      Dm            F      G        C      
Do you really want to live forever, forever forever young

 

C        G               Am          F
Forever young, I want to be forever  young
G                      Dm            F      G
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
 

C    G    Am    F    G    Dm    F    Am    G        C
C    G    Am    F    G    Dm    F    Am    G        C