99 Red Balloons

Song: 99 Red Balloons (aka 99 Luftballoons)
Artist: Goldfinger
This is a cover of the original by Nena, which was all in German, this version only has one verse in German, and I have the translation after it in parentheses.

Lyrics:

You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, something's out there
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by

Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, its red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine it springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As ninety-nine red balloons go by

Ninety-nine decisions street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call out the troops now in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it, boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As ninety-nine red balloons go by

Neunundneunzig Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen Neunundneunzig Luftballons
(Ninety-nine Knights of the air
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a superhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by)

Ninety-nine dreams I have had
And every one a red balloon
It's all over, and I'm standing pretty
In the dust that was a city
I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
Here it is, a red balloon
I think of you and let it go...

Song and image copyright to their respective owners (who are not me)

Category:

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• luftbaloons

[curaidh]

there! i changed it to goldfinger! everyone happy now???

[imooreory]

this is not gimmes, its goldfinger. twat

[curaidh]

if freaking iTunes says its ME First and the GImmie Gimmies, then thats who I say it is, happy? direct me to some web site where it says that the song is by GOldfinger, and ill change this.

[curaidh]

bastard.

[Raguna163]

This song owns

'Nuff said

[jonasaddicted344]

oh wow :O

[sporeplayer100]

what the hell I made an effin play list and it keeps saying it's restricted for play back!

[ccsweet94]

I didn't think that's what the actual translation of that one verse was........... Hmm..... balloons taste good.

[sataniccoocooclock]

@curaidh Apparently not, i am

[potatofour]

Epicness, at the musical level.

[punxunite911]

7seconds did a cover of this song in my opinion its better no offence to anyone

[Mranditoo]

Good Song

[imooreory]

twat

[iwinhohoho]

ok the whole red/air thing is getting annoying the wrighter of the song THE 1ST WRIGHTER when she translated it canged the words so shut up about it

[floppetylove]

thigs get changed in translation, often in somgs to make the new words fit with the original music. red just fits better than air in english. if you sing it in the original german, the reverse is true.

and luft does mean air, as in lufthansa (sp?), the german national airline.

i'll go away now...=)