Für immer jung
| "Für immer jung" | ||||
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| Single by Karel Gott | ||||
| from the album Für immer jung | ||||
| Released | December 5, 2000 | |||
| Genre | Schlager, Pop | |||
| Label | Polydor Records | |||
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| Single by Bushido featuring Karel Gott | ||||||||||
| from the album Heavy Metal Payback | ||||||||||
| Released | November 28, 2008 | |||||||||
| Format | CD single, Maxi single | |||||||||
| Genre | Schlager, Hip Hop | |||||||||
| Label | ersguterjunge | |||||||||
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"Für immer jung" is a song by Czech schlager singer Karel Gott, and a cover of Alphaville's hit song "Forever Young", with German song lyrics.[1] He also made a version in his native language, called "Být stále mlád"[2] (literally in Czech, "To be forever young").
In 2008, a new version of this song was made by the rapper Bushido for his album Heavy Metal Payback with Karel Gott singing the chorus.
Bushido version
Lyrical Content
In this song, Bushido raps frankly and openly, without cursing. He raps from the perspective of an older person, who is looking back on their childhood. During this time, they were young and powerful and their parents lived happily together. There is a desire to return to this time in the past.
Bushido also raps that his childhood and youth have passed by too fast and now, being an adult, this is difficult for some adults to respect.
In the final verses Bushido raps that, in his view, life is a struggle to attain something and he gives young people advice to spend more time with their family and friends and stop wasting their life away smoking and drinking.