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Don't You Want Me Baby Human League

A live performance of Voices Carry by 'Til Tuesday. One of my most favorite songs.

I saw Nena - 99 Luftballoons in the UK. Audience participation on this number sends chills of joy down your spine. Simply wonderful!

Speaking of music my mom wouldn't like. She probably would have dragged my stereo system out of the house with a tractor if she'd heard me play Eddie Van Halen's: Eruption Solo! LOL

Great song. Hope that between them Putin and Trump don't make it prophetic.

cthia wrote:I saw Nena - 99 Luftballoons in the UK. Audience participation on this number sends chills of joy down your spine. Simply wonderful!

Daryl wrote:Great song. Hope that between them Putin and Trump don't make it prophetic.

cthia wrote:I saw Nena - 99 Luftballoons in the UK. Audience participation on this number sends chills of joy down your spine. Simply wonderful!

You and me both.


Lyrics

[Intro]
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

[Interlude]

[Verse 1]
99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine, it springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As 99 red balloons go by

[Verse 2]
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

[Verse 3]
99 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
99 red balloons go by
99 red balloons go by

[Verse 4]
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 souvenir
Just to prove the world was here...
And here is, a red balloon
I think of you and let it go

One of the most beautiful collaborations I've heard. Gives me chills.

We Are The World

There comes a time
When we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
Oh, and it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can't go on
Pretending day-by-day
That someone, somewhere soon make a change
We're all a part of God's great big family
And the truth, you know, love is all we need

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

Oh, send them your heart
So they know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stones to bread
And so we all must lend a helping hand

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving
Oh, there's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe there's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, well let us realize
Oh, that a change can only come
When we stand together as one, yeah, yeah, yeah

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and mee

We are the world (are the world)
We are the children (are the children)
We are the ones who'll make a brighter day, so let's start giving (so let's start giving)
There is a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

Oh, let me hear you!

We are the world (we are the world)
We are the children (said we are the children)
We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so let start giving (so let's start giving)

There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me, come on now, let me hear you

We are the world (we are the world)
We are the children (we are the children)
We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so let's start giving (so let's start giving)
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me, yeah

We are the world (we are the world)
We are the children (we are the children)
We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so let's start giving (so let's start giving)

There's a choice we're making
And we're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

We are the world (are the world)
We are the children (are the children)
We are the ones who'll make a brighter day so let's start giving (so let's start giving)

There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me

We are the world, we are the world (are the world)
We are the children, yes sir (are the children)
We are the ones that make a brighter day so let's start giving (so let's start giving)

There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day, just you and me, ooh-hoo!

We are the world (dear God) (are the world)
We are the children (are the children)
We are the ones that make a brighter day so let's start giving (all right, can you hear what I'm saying?)
There's a choice we're making, we're saving our own lives

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Thanks for the translation of Luftbalon. I've enjoyed this over the years, but only heard it performed in German. Never understood the meanings because my German was so weak.

ksandgren wrote:Thanks for the translation of Luftbalon. I've enjoyed this over the years, but only heard it performed in German. Never understood the meanings because my German was so weak.

As I understand it, those are the English Lyrics which are NOT a translation of the German lyrics. Although I've never seen specifics on what the difference is, just that the "story" is different.

There were three versions of it actually...

The German version already posted.

The German/English version.

The English version.

The details of the chicken and the egg of this song reads like a cult legend.