99 Red Balloons (99 LuftBallons)

Gee_Flat

This long-lost song that I never really liked (didn't hate it) popped in my head this morning like a prophetic awakening. Can't believe how apropos some of the lyrics are for the times, and derelicts being shot down.

"...the war machine springs to life..."

Recorded: Spliff Studio, West Berlin, 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc

Gee_Flat

Not concerned with comments on this, but how would I know if anyone checked it out without a thread 'view' count?

Gee_Flat

Turn on CC to read the lyrics. Thanks @Adeimus, that's one way to know 😎

Kaiwan_NI

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

😳

Gee_Flat

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/53496#Comment_53496

Balloons and UFOs?

Remember this song was released 5 years before the wall came down, and I kept wondering are the red balloons some kind of symbolic peace offering, and I read this today:

from Wikipedia:

While at a June 1982 concert by the Rolling Stones in West Berlin, Nena's guitarist Carlo Karges noticed that balloons were being released. As he watched them move toward the horizon, he noticed them shifting and changing shapes, where they looked like strange spacecraft (referred to in the German lyrics as a "UFO"). He thought about what might happen if they floated over the Berlin Wall to the Soviet sector.

👽️ << Zelenskyy 😀

It's all 'fear porn' peddled by the media and the machine to deflect from the truth.

ANDREW221231

personally i prefer the original german lyrics version

Gee_Flat

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/55381#Comment_55381

I may have heard it years ago. I'll check it out.