Young Men They don't take what they've been given Young men They write songs about women They just wanna live forever They just wanna live forever, amen In a song, when they're gone Amen And girls You know I hear that they buy potions And girls They buy creams and lotions And they just wanna live forever They just wanna live forever, amen Like a daisy never fades Amen And young brides They live on through their children And architects They love on through their buildings Presidents get statues of themselves Novelists get their books on dusty shelves Old men They are never in a hurry Old men Their faces free from worry They don't care to live forever They don't care to live forever, amen Just to greet the end like a friend Amen And the stone He returns to the ground There are no ghosts And no promises of sacred sounds And all the statues disintegrate And every word fades from every age Young men We don't take what we've been given Young men We write songs about young women We all just wanna live forever We are sorry that we will never