99 red balloons

[Arkana]

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
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 Decision Street, 99 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 99 red balloons go by.

99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Das es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballoons

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

(Goodnight, children... everywhere)

[kick-ass-bob]

1. Yep. That's why JC Penney used it for valentines day ads.

:eyes:

[KitchenWitch]

2. Hey, I thought it was an appropriate song for VD LOL

[fryguy]

8. really? how dumb

don't they know what the song is about?

[kick-ass-bob]

11. apparently not.

marketing types often don't pay attention to what the meaning of songs are.
Like "We are the champions" and "Rock you like a Hurricane"

:D

[fryguy]

12. or my favorite

Born in the USA...

ahh the irony of flag-waving repukes singing that refrain as testiment to their naitonalism given the context and words of the song....

[fryguy]

3. what a coincidence...

...i was just looking for the song on iTunes. the only one i could find was a new verson Nena put out recently. none of the original - english or german.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. 99 Dead Baboons

Hello Bobby my old friend.
It's good to see you once again.
How's your mother, how's your aunt?
How's your father's skin diving suit?
(That's one of the lines I'm not real sure about, but it goes something like
this.)

I've got something you should see
Back at my place; come with me.
I've got some brand new furnishings,
Plus 99 dead baboons

99 dead baboons
Sitting in my living room.
Not too functional it seems,
But quite a conversation piece.
This one's Jake, that one's Dinah,
There's big Ned in my recliner.
No it's not a lazy boy.
Can't you see it's a dead baboon?

Dead baboons, dead baboons.
Dead baboons, dead baboons.

How they got here I'm not sure;
Woke up one day, there they were.
Luckily I've got a lease
Allowing pets if they're deceased.
I'm just thankful they're not apes,
'Cuz apes would clash with the drapes.
No more napkins at my parties -
Wipe your hands on a dead baboon.

Dead baboons, dead baboons.
Dead baboons, dead baboons.

Dead baboons are lots of fun;
Playin' water balloons I've always won.
You can keep your dead giraffes and swine,
I'll take dead baboons every time.
There's just one problem I have found:
It's finding Purina Dead Baboon Chow.
But what a happy snorkelling device...
(That's another line I'm not real sure about, but it's somethin' like that)
With 99 dead baboons.

Dead baboons, dead baboons.
Dead baboons, dead baboons.

[ashmanonar]

9. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

i love the tim cavanaugh version.

[TlalocW]

5. Wasn't there something about

Everyone being a hero and everyone's a Captain Kirk?

TlalocW

[Arkana]

7. I just posted the Goldfinger version

[ashmanonar]

10. goldfinger version is good.

:applause:

[sui generis]

6. believe it or not

way back when sui was an exotic male dancer he had an evil deejay who would put this damn song on. In the original German. May he rot in hell.

go ahead. I dare you. try to bump and grind to this without cracking up. :evilgrin:

[noonwitch]

13. The song always makes me think of that stupid french movie

"The Red Balloon". Because I moved to a different school in kindergarten, I had to watch the damn thing twice. I still don't get it.

[Kellanved]

14. Or rather: 99 Luftballons

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

My recycled quick and dirty translation:



Do you have some time for me?
Then I'll sing a song for you.
About 99 balloons
On their way to the horizon.
Are you thinking about me, possibly?
I'll sing a song for you.
About 99 balloons
And that anything can cause anything

99 balloons
On their way to the horizon
Were taken for UFOs from outer space
Hence a general sent a squadron
To call alarm, just in case
But at the horizon were
Just 99 balloons

99 jet pilots
Each of them a great warrior
Believed to be Captain Kirk
It was a big firework display
The neighbors were slow in the uptake
And felt threatened
But at the horizon were
99 balloons getting shot at

99 secretaries of war
matches and gasoline
Believed to be smart
Were smelling loot
Cried for war and wanted power
Who would have thought?
To get this far
Just because of 99 balloons

Just because of 99 balloons

99 balloons

99 years of war
left no space for winners
Secretaries of war are no more
Neither are jet planes
I'm walking around
Seeing the world lying in ashes
Found a balloon
Thinking of you and letting it fly.