Stevie Wonder - Stay Gold Lyrics.mp4

FOR ANTHONY McC. - MAY YOU FOREVER STAY GOLD

`Stay Gold' from `The Oustsiders' movie
Stevie Wonder
The finished Audio lists at 617kbs.
The Outsiders is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The film was released in March 1983. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film.
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, he has become one of the most creative and loved musical performers of the late 20th century. Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven and continues to perform and record for Motown as of the early 2010s. He has been blind since shortly after birth. In 1983, Wonder performed the song "Stay Gold", the theme to Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders. Wonder wrote the lyrics, The meaning of the song ''Stay Gold'' by Stevie Wonder' is to stay young and to hold on to the wonders of youth. The song is loosely based on Robert Frost's poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay.'.Actually, the title of the

Robert Frost poem is
"Nothing Gold Can Stay."
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

The delicate gold of spring leaves will inevitably turn into the green leaves of summer. Eden (or Paradise) will be lost--eventually subsumed in grief.

In The Outsiders, this is the poem Ponyboy reads Johnny while they are hiding, saying he doesn't really understand it. The words, "Stay gold," are Johnny's last words before he dies. Later in their copy of Gone with the Wind, Ponyboy finds Johnny's explanation of the poem. "Stay gold," means, hold on to the wondrous things you see and experience while you are young and innocent. Of course, the early golden leaves will turn green, spring will turn to summer, dawn to day, youth to maturity; but you can hold on to the wonder, the sense of innocence, the "goldenness" of youth.

Lyrics

"Stay Gold"

Seize upon that moment long ago
One breath away and there you will be
So young and carefree
Again you will see
That place in time...so gold

Steal away into that way back when
You thought that all would last forever
But like the weather
Nothing can ever...and be in time
Stay gold

But can it be
When we can see
So vividly
A memory
And yes you say
So must the day
Too, fade away
And leave a ray of sun
So gold

Life is but a twinkling of an eye
Yet filled with sorrow and compassion
though not imagined
All things that happen
Will age too old
Though gold

Video:
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Audio:
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Dolby Pro Logic II
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Channels 2(stereo)
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7.1 ch mix
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