99 Red Balloons

I wonder how many people actually know of this song by Nena?? It's a really very nice song, originally in German but with loads of covers, and Nena's in 1983 was a huge hit. I'm now trying desperately to find the mp3, all I got was the german version (99 LuftBallons)! If I'm desperate enough I'll try HMV and buy the whole album. It was written in the face of the nuclear cold war in 1980, look at the lyrics. Interesting that i stumbled upon it, while downloading a video of someone feeding his sun coral. The nice man included a clip of "99 Red Balloons" in the video, and it was captivating.

Mr. Ye and I had good fun talking on Skype. He was helping me search I-tunes for 99 Red Balloons, and it was amusing to hear both his voice AND music coming out from my com's speakers. Oh, and I found some very good sites to download free mp3s free. One of which, was mp3s hits.com. Which I promptly pronounced as mp3 SHITS.com (it was an HONEST MISTAKE) when Mr. Ye asked me.

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.

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.