99 Luftballons

 - by Nena -

Original German Lyrics

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein für Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
  Denkst du vielleicht gerad’ an mich
Dann singe ich ein für Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Und das so was von so was 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
Es gab ein großes Feuerwerk
Die Nachbar 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
Mann wer hätte das gedacht
Dass es einmal so weit kommt,
Wegen 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’en Luftballon gefunden
Denk an dich und lass ihn fliegen 
English 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
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
Where 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 airway
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Silverhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go

 


            		
            

Translation of German Lyrics

            

If you have some time for me

I'll sing a little song for you

Of 99 balloons

On their way to the horizon

Are you thinking of me right now

I'll sing a little song for you

Of 99 balloons

And what comes of such things.

            

99 balloons

On their way to the horizon

Were thought to be flying saucers from space

So a general sent out

A jet patrol to follow them

To give alarm if it were the case

But there on the horizon were just

99 balloons

            

99 jet-planes

Everyone was a big warrior

Thought they were Captain Kirk

Started a large fire-work

The neighbors didn't get it at all

And felt like they were being dissed

But they were only shooting at

99 balloons

            

99 war ministers

Matches and gas-tanks

Considered themselves to be smart

Sensed the fat loot already

Called for war and strove for power

Man, who would have thought

That it will once lead to this

Because 99 balloons

            

99 years of war

Left no space for winners

War ministers don't exist anymore

And neither do jet-planes

Now I'm doing my rounds

See the world, lying in shambles

I've found a balloon

Think of you and let it fly...