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Contents. Who Wants to Live Forever. " Who Wants to Live Forever " is a song by the British rock band Queen. A power ballad, [1] it is the sixth track on the album A Kind of Magic, which was released in June 1986, and was written by lead guitarist Brian May for the soundtrack to the film Highlander. [2] Queen was backed up by an orchestra, with ...
- 1986
- "Killer Queen"
- 15 September 1986
[Verse 1: 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? [Chorus: Brian May] Who wants to live forever? Who wants to ...
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Songfacts®: Queen was commissioned to write this for the movie Highlander, and Brian May wrote it after watching the first cut of the film. He wrote the line "Who wants to live forever" in a cab on his way home from the viewing of the film. Inspiration came from the scene where Connor Macleod (Christopher Lambert) takes his dying wife Heather ...