lyrics to 99 red ballons

[MysticArcher]

by goldfinger

what does the part in what I assume is german mean?

heres the lyrics 99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten macht
Mann wär hätte das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons

[iwwobblie]

Here's the lyrics to the song in English,I don't see the verse you posted:

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 air
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

here's how babelfish translates that verse:

99 war Ministers match and gasoline can regarded themselves as smart people Witterten already fat booty scoring: War and wanted makes man more waer would have that meant that it once so far comes ways 99 ballons

[MysticArcher]

thanks, it was the second to last verse I'd guess

babelfish? online translators don't work very well, I learned that from someone in French class

[truthaddict11]

that song is not a goldfinger song, it is a cover of the song 99 Lufftbalons by Nena.

[communist_comrade]

hey comrades,
i wanted to know have any of you got a website i can go to so i can listen to the full version of 99 red balloons?

[Rob]

Originally posted by [email protected] 9 2004, 01:25 PM
that song is not a goldfinger song, it is a cover of the song 99 Lufftbalons by Nena.
And they weren't the first band to cover it either.