Line Art Gallery Page 3

Forever Young (1989) This drawing, which is more detailed than most of my line art (the original is 14x17 and has some colored pencil accents) isn't strictly an Alternate Shannara Universe picture. It was just a flight of fancy--a father/daughter dance, outside of time and place--inspired by the Alphaville song "Forever Young," which is a song that makes me think of Shannara, and of especially of the Druids and the choices they have to make. Most of my other Shannara lyrics are on the lyrics page, but these lyrics go specifically with this picture. .

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Forever Young -- by Alphaville (1982) 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 man. 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 madman. 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 out without a corpse. I don't want to perish like a fleeing 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 winging out of the blue, Oh, 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 young?