Die Young Lyrics: We got London on the track / I'm in London, got my beat from London / I ain't tryna die young, so I gotta ride with one / Stood ten toes down in my Balenciaga, ayy / He ran down on.
I hear your heart beat to the beat of the drumsOh what a shame that you came here with someoneSo while you're here in my armsLet's make the most of the night like we're gonna die youngWe're gonna die youngWe're gonna die youngLet's make the most of the night like we're gonna die youngBeat breakLet's make the most of the night like we're gonna die youngYoung hearts, out our mindsRunnin 'til we outta timeWild childs, lookin' goodLivin hard just like we shouldDon't care whose watching when we tearing it up (You Know)That magic that we got nobody can touch (For sure).
The Newtown, Conn., school shootings have had reverberations in the radio world, as lyrics that seemed within the bounds of good taste two weeks ago are suddenly hitting a flat note. A case in point is Kesha’s recent hit “Die Young,” a lightweight party tune about living for the moment.
Though the theme of the song is carpe diem, it contains the chorus: “Let’s make the most of the night like we’re gonna die young/We’re gonna die young/We’re gonna die young.” Program directors at pop stations in Connecticut and around the country took the song out of their rotations in the days after the Dec. 14 shootings. Another song receiving very few spins these days is “Pumped Up Kicks,” last year’s Foster the People hit, which tells the story of a student shooting his classmates. The airplay for Kesha’s song dropped 19 percent on the Billboard Radio Songs chart this week, and the song has dipped to No. 3 on the Hot 100 single chart. Several program directors said the drop-off in airplay would be temporary, Billboard reported. In a string of Twitter posts last week, Kesha, below, apologized and asserted that she had objected to the lyrics but was “forced” to sing them.
“I did NOT want to sing those lyrics and I was FORCED TO,” she wrote, in a post that was later taken down. She later posted a message on her trying to clarify: “After such a tragic event I was feeling a lot of emotion and sadness when I said I was forced to sing some of the lyrics to ‘Die Young.’ Forced is not the right word. I did have some concerns about the phrase ‘die young’ in the chorus when we were writing the lyrics especially because so many of my fans are young and that’s one reason why I wrote so many versions of this song.
But the point of the song is the importance of living every day to the fullest and staying young at heart, and these are things I truly believe.” Kesha is one of several songwriters on “Die Young.” The list includes Lukasz Gottwald (known as Dr. Luke), Benny Blanco, Cirkut and the group Fun.’s frontman, Nate Ruess.