99 Luftballons, we were warned 40 yrs ago..

[JJ_BPK]

Nena nailed it 40 yers ago..

IDK, Change my mind

Originally Posted by Nena

99 Luftballons (99 Red Ballons)
released: 1983


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, sparks in the software
Flash the message "Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by
99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
The 99 red balloons go by
99 Decision Street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by
99 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
Scrambling the summer sky
99 red balloons go by
As 99 red balloons go by
99 dreams I have had
In every one, a red balloon
It's all over, and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you, and let it go

NENA 99 Luftballons (Live 2018)

[Golf1echo]

Some synergy going around, perhaps there is a little hope. I caught a song request for same on the radio the other day. The caller knew both versions but could only sing along in German. Awareness and the ability to converse in a different language.
Die zweite Fassung.

[mojaveman]

It was a hit song in Europe in the early '80s when I was there. We liked her and the German version because while drinking copious amounts of Stuttgarter Hofbrau and watching the video on AFN we would try and sing along in the native tongue.

Commedy.