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Who Wants To Live Forever? - A Reminder of the Fleeting Time

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Who waits forever anyway?

 

I always find the song "Who Wants to Live Forever?" sung by lead singer Freddie Mercury from the English Rock Band Queen to be a haunting and poignant reminder of just how fleeting our time here really is.

The lyrics for this song sung by Freddie Mercury, who later died at the young age of 45, have always served as a moving reminder for me to cherish the moments and live for today, since none of us really know just how much time we have. 

Forever is our today
Who waits forever anyway?

This song is one of Queen's best known and most recognized singles written by guitarist Brian May for the Soundtrack to the film "Highlander" released in 1986.

Photo Source: Screen Shot of Freddie Mercury from the video of Who Wants to Live Forever. 

There's no time for us 

Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May

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...?

Queen Version of Who Wants To Live Forever 

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Queen "Who Wants to Live Forever" (High Quality)

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Who Wants to Live Forever from Wikipedia 

"Who Wants to Live Forever" is a song by the British rock band Queen. The song is the sixth track on the album A Kind of Magic, released in June 1986, and was written by guitarist Brian May for the soundtrack to the film Highlander. The song is used to frame the heartwrenching scene in the movie where Connor MacLeod must endure his beloved wife Heather growing old and dying while he, as an Immortal, is forever young. (It was later used in the Category: Highlander - : The Series|television series of the same name, in the episodes "Category: Highlander - : The Series (season 1)#ep01|The Gathering", "Category: Highlander - : The Series (season 1)#ep10|Revenge is Sweet", "Category: Highlander - : The Series (season...

Freddie Mercury from Who Wants to Live Forever 

Freddie Mercury as an Angelic Figure

Freddie Mercury - Angel

I was amazed when watching the video clips just how much Freddie looks like an angel with all of the backlighting on the stage.

Photo Source: Screen Shot of Freddie Mercury from the video of Who Wants to Live Forever.

Queen's Version of Who Wants to Live Forever 

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Several of the Queen Albums that include "Who Wants to Live Forever."

A Kind of Magic

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Live at Wembley Stadium

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Queen - Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 &2

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ANOTHER KIND OF MAGIC : A Queen Symphonic Spectacular

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Queen's Live Version Who Wants to Live Forever 

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Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever

Budapest 1986

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There's no chance for us 

Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May

There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
Who dares to love forever
When love must die

Queen Live at Wembley Stadium 1986 

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Note there is a language alert at the beginning when he is introducing the song, denying rumors that the band was going to break up.

Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever (Live At Wembley 1986)

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Images of Freddie Mercury - Who Wants to Live Forever 

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Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever with Scenes from Highlander 

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Who Wants To Live Forever (Highlander Scenes)

Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever

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A Squidoo Lens on Highlander 

We Can Have Forever 

Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May

But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today

Who Wants To Live Forever on the Diana Princess of Wales Tribute 

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Who Wants To Live Forever from Queen was featured on this tribute to Diana Princess of Wales released shortly after her death in 1997.

Diana Princess of Wales Tribute

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Seal Version Who Wants to Live Forever 

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Seal's (with hair) version of Who Wants to Live Forever from the 1992 Tribute to Freddie Mercury.

Seal - Who Wants to Live Forever

Seal - Who Wants to Live Forever (live at Wembley 1992 at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert).

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Mercury Phoenix Trust 



Since 1992 the Mercury Phoenix Trust have been responsible for donating more than £8 million (equivalent of 16 million US Dollars) in the fight against AIDS making over 600 grants to charities worldwide.
The Mercury Phoenix Trust
In 1992 the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust to distribute the monies raised from this concert.
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The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert 10th Anniversary Edition 

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The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert 10th Anniversary Edition features many of the performances from the 1992 Tribute Concert.

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

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Photos Labled with "Who Wants to Live Forever" 

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This is a collection of photos on Flickr labeled with "Who Wants to Live Forever."

Sarah Brightman Video Version Who Wants to Live Forever 

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Sarah Brightman was one of the first artists to record and release a version of "Who Wants to Live Forever." This one is the video version.

Sarah Brightman - Who Wants to Live Forever

Sarah Brightman - Who Wants to Live Forever (1996)

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Sarah Brightman's Version of Who Wants to Live Forever 

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Time to Say Goodbye

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Sarah Brightman - Live from Las Vegas

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Who Waits Forever Anyway? 

Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
Forever is our today
Who waits forever anyway?

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Sarah Brightman Live Version Who Wants to Live Forever 

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Sarah Brightman Who Wants To Live Forever

Sarah Brightman singing Who Wants To Live Forever in La Luna Tour Enjoy

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More Versions of Who Wants to Live Forever 

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A version was recorded by Ian Meeson & Belinda Gillett in 1989 for the British Bone Marrow Donor Appeal.

American Idol, Katharine McPhee sang the song on the "Queen" themed week on the fifth season in 2006.

Canada's Idol, Eva Avila sang the song on the "1980's" themed week on their fourth season in 2006.

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey sings her version of "Who Wants to Live Forever."

Olympic Medalist Nancy Kerrigan skated to "Who Wants to Live Forever in the Winter 2000 tour of Champions on Ice.

Queen-Who Wants To Live Forever sung by children

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Katharine McPhee - Who Wants to Live Forever

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Eva Avila - "Who Wants To Live Forever"

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Shirley Bassey - WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER!

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Nancy Kerrigan 2000 Champions on Ice

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Forever is Our Today 

Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May

For Freddie Mercury, forever would not last much longer.

Little more than five years after the release of this song, he would die. Freddie did not wait forever.
    Forever is our today
    Who waits forever anyway?
His death from complications of AIDS, greatly heightening worldwide awareness of the disease at a time when people were still very much in denial of the AIDS crisis.

Source: Wikipedia. Wikimedia. Freddie Mercury Statue Montreux. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Stazjia

This is a lovely 5* lens, thank you.

Posted June 23, 2008

Stazjia

This is a lovely 5* lens, thank you.

Posted June 23, 2008

purplelady

What a beautiful lens. Two of my favorites were highlighted--Sarah Brightman and the TV series Highlander with such a beautiful. As something who has worked with the aging population for many years the poignancy of this song and lens resonates with me.

Posted March 16, 2008

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Excellent lens...
You have put so much information about an amazing song form an amazing band in one place! 5***** Thank you
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