Dedicated to Norway: Scorpions & Tarja - The Good Die Young, 22.7.2011

Scorpions with Tarja Turunen at Saimaa Open Air, Finland 22nd of July 2011.

Klaus Meine dedicated this song to all those people who are being touched by a bomb blast and a massacre in Norway the same day.

Lyrics:

You wake up
Watch the world go 'round
You shiver
Feeling upside down
Your heart is beating fast
Pumping blood to your head
Another day to fight
You have a prayer on your lips under the desert sun
And a loaded gun

You remember
That your father said
Stay out of trouble son
If you're true to yourself
You'll be working like a dog
Raise a family
And life will be alright
But now it's written in the stars if you'll make it out alive
Out alive

The good die young
There might be no tomorrow
In god we trust
Through all this pain and sorrow
The good die young
The flame will burn forever
And no one knows your name
Bring the boys back home again

It was a quiet day
On the streets of hope
When the bomb went off
At the side of the road
Sounds of breaking steel
An windshield full of blood
No enemy in sight
It feels like in a movie scenes are passing by
It's your life

The good die young
There might be no tomorrow
In god we trust
Through all this pain and sorrow
The good die young
The flame will burn forever
And no one knows your name
Bring the boys back home again
Home again

You remember every word
That your father said
Stay out of trouble son
That'll be true to yourself
Got a prayer on your lips under the desert sun
And the loaded gun

The good die young
There might be no tomorrow
In god we trust
Through all this pain and sorrow
The good die young
The flame will burn forever
And no one knows your name
Bring the boys back home again
Home again

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Scorpions
• Tarja
• Turunen
• The
• Good
• Die
• Young
• Saimaa
• Open
• Air
• 2011
• live

[jpcampusano]

Who cares about the Tarja's mic?! It's a beautiful dedication to the Norway victims! RIP all those little kids. And may this never happen again.

[Soyalecitin]

@jpcampusanos Yes! Thank you for your comment. <3 It was really touching when he said those words.... Not all the people knew what he was talking about though. We were listening to some Finnish artists there while it all happened, so not everyone had heard the news. I checked out my facebook and got some sms's from Norway so I knew it, but those around me were like wtf.....?

[irenikus777]

I don't know what are you people arguing about. Tarja's voice sounds perfectly to me, the problem is that the engineer is screwing with her microphone. On, off, up, down, distorsions.. at one point he simply plugs it off.

Listen closely between 2:41 and 2:46 what we hear is not the speaker. It's Tarja's plain voice from the stage.

And at 2:46 the mic turns on for a split second.. then off again.

I don't think it's an honest mistake because this happened before in other duets.

[parts87a]

Klaus Meine the best !

[mrrogue72]

Scorpiond rule!!

[Exkaliba666]

@MrNakhrul My friends are on holidays outside my town, so i have 2 options, gaming&replying to trolls or studying :(

[MrNakhrul]

@Exkaliba666

Don't bother replying to trolls and aphonics, just thumb them down.

[nina020893]

Tarja is really enjoy on the stage right there.. keep it up guys!!! :)

[Exkaliba666]

@samhain1967 So what if she can't sing rock o_o since when singing different genres makes a singer bether than the other?

[samhain1967]

@Exkaliba666 Yes Simone is better because she can sing rock, and Tarja can't.

[Exkaliba666]

@samhain1967 Why would you compare Tarja and Simone, without Tarja there wouldn't be a Simone Simons singing in a metal band, have some respect about that, anyways i won't argue about tastes, i still prefer Tarja over Simone but neither one is better than the other.

[tahoria]

She's taller than Scorpions singer ! That's fun ^^

[Marshallsatten]

Things go wrong with equipment, it happens. It doesn't make me think less of Scorps or Tarja.