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99 Luftballons- (Original Version in German)


Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht g'rad an mich
Singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und das sowas von sowas kommt

99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'Ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben wenn's so wär
Dabei war'n dort am Horizont
Nur 99 Luftballons

99 Düsenflieger
Jeder war ein grosser Krieger
Hielten sich für Captain Kirk
Das gab ein grosses Feuerwerk
Die Nachbarn haben nichts gerafft
Und fühlten sich gleich angemacht
Dabei schoss man am Horizont
Auf 99 Luftballons

99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Man wer hätte das gedacht
Das es einmal so weit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons

Wegen 99 Luftballons

99 Luftballons

99 Jahre Krieg
Liessen keinen Platz für Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt's nicht mehr
Und auch keine Düsenflieger
Heute zieh ich meine Runden
Seh' die Welt in Trümmern liegen
Hab' 'nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk' an dich und lass' ihn fliegen



99 Red Balloons

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
'till 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
Ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine 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
And focusing it on the sky
The ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine decisions treat
Ninety nine 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 Ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a super hero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by

As ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine 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



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13 comments

19 Dec 2004 @ 01:01 by hgoodgame : Thanks for the lyrics Vaxen.
I'd been trying to find it but couldn't. You're the best! Got it saved now :)  


19 Dec 2004 @ 01:30 by vaxen : Yavol Meine Shatze.
Actually the English lyrics are way off. I am thinking of adding a better translation but this is the popular rendition. Maybe you would care to add your own? It is really a good soneg but the English version is all wrong! Thanks to you, too, for getting it...  


19 Dec 2004 @ 03:55 by hgoodgame : Ask and ye shall receive ;)
This is basically literal, I haven't tried to rhyme it!
Have you got some time for me
Then I’ll sing a song for you
Of 99 balloons
On their way to the horizon
Perhaps right now you're thinking of me,
So I'll sing a song for you
Of 99 balloons
And so something like this can come from something like this

99 balloons
On their way to the horizon
Taken to be UFOs, from the Universe
Therefore is a General sent for
No flier relayed afterwards
An alarm to give if it's true
Weren’t there on the horizon
Only 99 balloons

99 jet pilots
Everyone a big fighter
Thought that they were Captain Kirk
That made for huge fireworks
The neighbors who had heard nothing
Felt they were under attack
One shot on the horizon
At the 99 balloons

99 war Ministers
Match and gasoline can ready
Took themselves as clever people
Got wind of already fatted easy prey
Scoring: War and wanted power
Man, who would have thought
It would go so far
Because of 99 balloons

Because of 99 balloons

99 balloons

99 years of war
Left no place for winners
War Minister don’t exist anymore
And also no more jet pilots
Today I tend to my rounds
See the world in rubble lying
Then a balloon I found
Think ' of you and let ' it fly  



19 Dec 2004 @ 04:08 by vaxen : Yah...
that will do nicely. Thank you Heidi. Think of ME and let it fly.  


19 Dec 2004 @ 04:13 by hgoodgame : Silly, of course..
Who else would I think of? ;)  


19 Dec 2004 @ 04:35 by koravya : Wunderbar
Danke schon.  


23 Feb 2007 @ 23:30 by schwartzdrache @70.178.196.183 : About the english version
That is right for the English version of the song, which was loosely based on the original version and written separately, thus its not a translation of the German version. And for the record, I cannot stand the English version, it is ugly! LOL  


11 Dec 2007 @ 18:03 by Greg @12.207.9.101 : Correct German lyrics
This is one of the very few places where the first line of the third stanza correctly uses the word Duesenflieger. The vast majority of sites show Duesenjaeger, a minor yet clearly audible error that seems to have become firmly entrenched in net lore.

Thanks to the person who implemented the correct wording.  



11 Dec 2007 @ 20:04 by vaxen : You are...
welcome, Greg san. How nice of you to observe that!
ANd schwartzdrache I agree withyou...Wow! Flabbergasted, I stand, that anyone actually found this!

Ah, the net, maybe there is hope for Mannaz after all...

Auf  



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