Released: January 1, 2012

Featuring: Beyoncé

Songwriter: Frank Mertens Marian Gold Bernhard Lloyd JAY-Z

Producer: Kanye West

[JAY-Z]
Can I get some light in here?
Cellphones in the air

[Intro: Beyoncé]
Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the stars
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 man (sing)

[Chorus: Beyoncé & JAY-Z]
Forever young
I wanna be forever young (yes)
Do you really want to live forever?(ah)
Forever and ever (sing)
Forever young (young) I wanna be (yes)
Forever young young ah
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever, forever young

[Verse 1: JAY-Z]
So we live a life like a video
When the sun is always out and you never get old
And the champagne's always cold
And the music is always good
And the pretty girls just happened to stop by in the hood
And they hop their pretty ass up on the hood of that pretty ass car
Without a wrinkle in today 'cause there is no tomorrow
Just some picture perfect day that last a whole lifetime
And it never ends 'cause all we have to do is hit rewind
So lets just stay in the moment, smoke some weed, drink some wine
Reminisce, talk some shit, forever young is in your mind
Leave a mark that can't erase, neither space nor time
So when the director yells cut we'll be fine, ah
(Sing)

[Chorus: Beyoncé & JAY-Z]
Forever young young I wanna be
(Forever young) (yes)
Do you really want to live forever? yeah
Forever and on top ever
Forever young I wanna be
(Forever young) yeah, yeah
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever and ever young

[Verse 2: JAY-Z & Beyoncé]
Slamming Bentley doors, hopping out of Porsche's
Popping up on Forbes lists, gorgeous, hold up
Niggas thought I lost it, they be talking more shit
I be talking more shit, I'm nauseous, hold up
I'll be here forever, you know I'm on my fall shit
And I ain't waiting for closure, I will never forfeit
Less than four bars, baby, bring the chorus in
Did you get the picture yet I'm painting you a portrait

[Chorus: Beyoncé & JAY-Z]
Forever young
I wanna be forever young yeah, yeah
Do you really want to live forever?
And ever and ever
Forever young
I wanna be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever your time, sing!
(Forever young I wanna be
Forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever and ever)
One more time, sing!
(Forever young I wanna be
Forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever, forever young)

[JAY-Z]
Make some noise for Beyoncé one time Brooklyn
I'mma leave you with this
Don't be good, Brooklyn, be great
Be great
Thank you for tonight, thank you for tonight
I love you

JAY-Z

Having sold over 100 million records worldwide, and holding the solo artist record of 14 Billboard 200 #1 albums, Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter is possibly the most talented, accomplished and respected rapper of all-time. He has released 13 studio albums and five collaborative albums over his 30-year career.

Three of his albums, Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint, and The Black Album, are considered landmarks in the genre, with all of them featured in Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Hov has won 21 Grammy Awards from sixty-four nominations, making him the 10th most awarded artist of all-time.

Legendary for never writing down his lyrics, JAY-Z’s flow is considered one of the greatest to grace the genre, his wordplay and metaphorical ability is unmatched, and his live shows push the envelope of what it means to be a hip hop artist. His MTV Unplugged appearance introduced the idea of having a full band (The Roots) backing up a hip hop artist at major concerts, and during his 2004 documentary Fade to Black he doubled down, selling out Madison Square Garden (in mere minutes) while featuring an enormous live band performance.