What does viva la vida translate as?

Question

ive heard it traslates as long live,live life and death and all his friends...which one is it

Answer 1

long live life is the translation. not live forever. let life go on. that's my take, but as it's a form of art, interpret it as you like.

Answer 2

if you look on the album it translates into all meaning of the phrase... therefor giving you a variety of things to choose from... the main part they were going for when the title was chosen though was basically "celbrate a long life"