Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever

Subject: I'm gonna live forever
From: GUEST,Annika
Date: 25 May 00 - 11:54 PM

Does anyone know this song?

I'm gonna live forever Forever and a day When I leave this world behind me I'll be singing all the way

I think the rest is about Nicodemus and Jesus and there is something about streets of gold... I haven't heard it in years but it is coming back to haunt me... can anyone help me out here?

Thanks, Annika

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: Dale Rose
Date: 29 May 00 - 09:10 PM

Annika, Joe sort of reminded me of this thread. I hope you don't think no one noticed it. If you've had no responses, it is likely because no one has an inkling, at least not yet. I'd say we're still working on it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 May 00 - 07:49 PM

Let's give it another day, eh?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: Dale Rose
Date: 28 Jun 00 - 11:58 PM

Or another month.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: Easy Rider
Date: 29 Jun 00 - 09:24 AM

Didn't Queen have a hit song like that? Wasn't it the theme song fot the TV show, "Highlander"?

Isn't there supposed to be a Highlander movie coming out soon?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 02:38 AM

. . . or another year and a half.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Dec 01 - 04:08 AM

Well, the song by Queen that's used in "Highlander" is Princes of the Universe. Nope - not a match.
I usually encourage people to post lyrics instead of links, but not for pop songs.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 11:06 AM

Yet another year and a half. Surely someone besides Annika knows this.

Still working on it, just not very fast. Google check for phrases turned up empty just now.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 11:19 AM

Just like the songs I leave behind me I'm gonna live forever now. ... a stranger and hearts are in danger On smooth streets Paved with gold. ...


www.geocities.com/Nashville/1345/highwaymen.html has the above lyric fragment... I couldn't get to the site to check out if there is more.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 11:41 AM

I got it from the site given by the guest by way of the Google cache. It does not seem to be the one in question.

From Live Forever written by Billy Joe Shaver and Eddy Shaver

When this old world is blown assunder
And all the stars fall from the sky
Remember someone really loves you
We'll live forever you and I

This does point up one of the (minor) problems with searches ~~ the paved with gold line is from another song on the page, True Love Travels A Gravel Road.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 12:09 PM

Every year or so, I think about this request. I don't know if it is still haunting Annika, but there is always a chance that someone new will see it and say, "Hey, I know that one!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: YOR
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 11:00 PM

I'll throw a twist in to this thread. How about Bryan Adams "I don't want to live forever".

http://www.bryanadams.com/onlineshop/library/lyrics-onadayliketoday-idontwannaliveforever.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: YOR
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 11:01 PM

Dang, its not blue!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 08:52 PM

The song is by billy joe shaver...good song... Its called...live forever..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 03:07 PM

Heard this yesterday (Shaver song) on an archived Prairie Home Companion episode. Link and lyric, later, 'less someone beats me to it.

~S~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm gonna live forever
From: GLoux
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 03:17 PM

Does Ray Kurzweil sing it?

-Greg

Subject: Lyr Add: LIVE FOREVER (Shaver & Shaver)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 12:25 AM

Lyrics copied from Lyrics Playground:

LIVE FOREVER
(Billy Joe Shaver / Eddy Shaver)

I'm gonna live forever.
I'm gonna cross that river.
I'm gonna catch tomorrow now.
You're gonna want to hold me
Just like I always told you.
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone.

Nobody here will ever find me,
But I will always be around.
Just like the songs I leave behind me,
I'm gonna live forever now.

You fathers and you mothers,
Be good to one another.
Please try to raise your children right.
Don't let the darkness take 'em.
Don't make 'em feel forsaken.
Just lead them safely to the light.

When this old world is blown asunder,
And all the stars fall from the sky,
Remember someone really loves you.
We'll live forever you and I.

CHORUS: I'm gonna live forever.
I'm gonna cross that river.
I'm gonna catch tomorrow now.

CHORUS (x2)

[Recorded by Pat Green & Cory Morrow on "Songs We Wish We'd Written;" by The Highwaymen on "The Road Goes On Forever;" and by Joe Whiting on "Rocket in My Pocket."]