Jakarta (ANTARA) - Lagu lawas "Forever Young" yang dipopulerkan oleh grup musik pop synthesizer asal Jerman Alphaville kembali populer tahun ini berkat media sosial.

Trio Alphaville yang terdiri dari Marian Gold (vokal), Bernhard Lloyd (keyboard), dan Frank Mertens (keyboard) merilis "Forever Young" sebagai single dari album debut mereka pada 1984. Mereka sudah mengerjakan demo lagu itu sejak pertama kali bertemu dalam perkumpulan seniman di kota asal mereka Munster.

Setelah itu, mereka membuat grup musik bernama Forever Young pada 1982. Nama Alphaville baru digunakan pada 1983 setelah terinspirasi dari film fiksi ilmiah Prancis berjudul sama. Pada tahun itu juga mereka menandatangani kontrak rekaman dengan label Warner Elektra Atlantic (WEA) Records.

Layaknya sebuah grup musik, Alphaville juga mengalami dinamika sepanjang perjalanan mereka. Kini, Marian Gold menjadi satu-satunya personel yang bergabung dengan Alphaville sejak awal.

Dari semula tiga orang, Alphaville kini beranggotakan, selain Marian Gold, Davis Goodes (gitar), Jacob Kiersch (drum), Carsten Brocker (keyboard), Alexandra Merl (bass).

Lirik lagu "Forever Young" merupakan refleksi kepedihan mereka, keinginan untuk tetap menjadi muda selamanya dan kerinduan ketika mimpi menjadi menjadi nyata.

Lirik lagu Alphaville "Forever Young"

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies

Hoping for the best but expecting the worst

Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

Let us die young or let us live forever

We don't have the power but we never say never

Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip

The music's for the sad men

Can you imagine when this race is won

Turn our golden faces into the sun

Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune

The music's played by the, the mad man

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

Forever, and ever

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

Forever young

Some are like water, some are like the heat

Some are a melody and some are the beat

Sooner or later, they all will be gone

Why don't they stay young

It's so hard to get old without a cause

I don't want to perish like a fading horse

Youth's like diamonds in the sun

And diamonds are forever

So many adventures couldn't happen today

So many songs we forgot to play

So many dreams swinging out of the blue

We let them come true

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

Forever, and ever

Forever young, I want to be forever young

Do you really want to live forever?

Forever, and ever

Forever young, I wanna be forever young

Do you really want to live forever? (Forever)