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Post by Collie on Aug 3, 2004 16:47:15 GMT
Anyone know what that classic 80's Nena track is about? The only bit I can make out is the number 99, ballons, and also 'Captain Kirk'. Who speaks German? Everyone's favourite language friend, Babelfish, translates the song as this: You have something time fur me then sing I a song fur you from 99 ballons on its way to the horizon perhaps think you g' then I sing a song to wheel to me fur you from 99 ballons and that sowas of sowas it comes 99 ballons on their way to the horizon Hilet one fur ufos from the universe therefore sent a general 'Ne Fliegerstafell afterwards alarm to give, wenn' s SI was thereby war' n on the horizon only 99 ballons 99 Dusenjager of everyone was not a large krieger there held zich fur Captain Kirk gave large fireworks the neighbours anything gerafft and fuhlten sucg thereby shot one on the horizon on 99 ballons 99 war Ministers match and gasoline can equivalent put on held itself fur smart people Witterten already fat booty scoring: Kring and wanted power man, who had that meant that it once so far comes ways 99 ballons 99 years war left no place fur winner war Minister gibt' s no more and also no Dusenflieger today do not draw I mean rounds Seh' the world in Trummern Hab' lies; 'nen ballon found Denk' at you and leaving; it fly Foreign songs are such fun. |
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Post by Felix on Aug 3, 2004 17:39:48 GMT
It's called 99 Red Balloons...
Put that in Google and the English lyrics should be there...
I have another Babelfish lyrics story...
O-Zone's Dragostea Din Tei song is addictive, and I wanted to know what the lyrics meant...
I found them and put them into Babelfish, with some very strange results...
French to English:
x5 My-ia-hii My-ia-huu My-ia-hoo My-ia-haa Alo, Salut, sunt have, a haiduc, If you rog, iubirea mea, primeste fericirea. Alo, alo, sunt have Picasso, Ti-amndts dat beep, if sunt voinic, Dar its stii naked-Ti cer nimic. Vrei its pleci dar naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my, naked my iei. Chipul tau if dragostea DIN tei, Semi-amintesc of ochii tai. Vrei its pleci dar naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my, naked my iei. Chipul tau if dragostea DIN tei, Semi-amintesc of ochii tai. Te sun, its-Ti spun, this simt acum, Alo, iubirea mea, sunt have, fericirea. Alo, alo, sunt iarasi have, Picasso, Ti-amndts dat beep, if sunt voinic, Dar its stii naked-Ti cer nimic. Vrei its pleci dar naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my, naked my iei. Chipul tau if dragostea DIN tei, Semi-amintesc of ochii tai. Vrei its pleci dar naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my, naked my iei. Chipul tau if dragostea DIN tei, Semi-amintesc of ochii tai. x4 My-ia-hii My-ia-huu My-ia-hoo My-ia-haa Vrei its pleci dar naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my, naked my iei. Chipul tau if dragostea DIN tei, Semi-amintesc of ochii tai. Vrei its pleci dar naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my iei, naked my, naked my, naked my iei. Chipul tau if dragostea DIN tei, Semi-amintesc of ochii tai.
German to English:
x5 mA-ia-hii mA-ia-huu mA-ia-hoo mA-ia-haa Alo, Salut, sunt European Union, un haiduc, SI width unit rog, iubirea mea, primeste fericirea. Alo, alo, sunt European Union Picasso, Ti-to dat the BEEP, SI sunt voinic, SA stii nu-ti cerium nimic. Vrei SA pleci nu mA, nu mA iei, Nu mA, nu mA iei, nu mA, nu mA, nu mA iei. Chipul rope SI dragostea DIN tei, Mi-amintesc de ochii tai. Vrei SA pleci nu mA, nu mA iei, Nu mA, nu mA iei, nu mA, nu mA, nu mA iei. Chipul rope SI dragostea DIN tei, Mi-amintesc de ochii tai. Width unit sun, SA-TI spun, ce simt acum, Alo, iubirea mea, sunt European Union, fericirea. Alo, alo, sunt iarasi European Union, Picasso, Ti-to dat the BEEP, SI sunt voinic, SA stii nu-ti cerium nimic. Vrei SA pleci nu mA, nu mA iei, Nu mA, nu mA iei, nu mA, nu mA, nu mA iei. Chipul rope SI dragostea DIN tei, Mi-amintesc de ochii tai. Vrei SA pleci nu mA, nu mA iei, Nu mA, nu mA iei, nu mA, nu mA, nu mA iei. Chipul rope SI dragostea DIN tei, Mi-amintesc de ochii tai. x4 mA-ia-hii mA-ia-huu mA-ia-hoo mA-ia-haa Vrei SA pleci nu mA, nu mA iei, Nu mA, nu mA iei, nu mA, nu mA, nu mA iei. Chipul rope SI dragostea DIN tei, Mi-amintesc de ochii tai. Vrei SA pleci nu mA, nu mA iei, Nu mA, nu mA iei, nu mA, nu mA, nu mA iei. Chipul rope SI dragostea DIN tei, Mi-amintesc de ochii tai.
Hmm...
I later found out that the song's in Romanian.
>_<
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Post by Collie on Aug 3, 2004 18:28:21 GMT
Or Rumanian as it used to be spelt.
Anyway, I when I was asking what the song was about, I was wondering if people knew from their own knowledge. Google is cheating. Lets ban Google. It ruins every forum conversation and question sooner or later.
Down with GOOGLE! Bastard Search Engine device!
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Post by Felix on Aug 3, 2004 18:30:13 GMT
But then what will happen to all the porn?
I NEED PORN!
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Post by wedge69 on Aug 4, 2004 6:59:31 GMT
I never needed porn when I was 13.
And 99 Luftballons is actually 99 air baloons, which doesn't make much sense to an English person, so the title was changed to red baloons when it was released here.
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Post by Mike on Aug 4, 2004 9:57:40 GMT
I have a punk cover of 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger.
These are the lyrics:
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
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballoons
<English version of the above verse>
(99 knights of the air
ride super high-tech jet fighters
everyones a silver hero
everyone's a Captain Kirk
with orders to identify
to clarify and classify
scramble in the summer sky
99 red balloons)
99 dreams I have had,
In 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....
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Post by Felix on Aug 4, 2004 10:19:58 GMT
I never needed porn when I was 13. Neither did I... What's your point? ¬_¬ |
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Post by Collie on Sept 8, 2004 14:27:03 GMT
Crivvens, there was an English version of the song afterall. Why didn't anyone say? Cretins!
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Post by wedge69 on Sept 8, 2004 14:48:42 GMT
Didn't you know? Have you never been to an 80's club? I bet you only heard the german version on the Vice City soundtrack.
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Post by Collie on Sept 8, 2004 15:29:00 GMT
Well actually I recognised the tune from the game and thought, 'That's strange, can't remember it being in german.' But I downloaded a compilation of eighties songs and it was german on there too so thought, 'It must have always been in german then'. So there. Can't say I've heard the tune played anywhere else in the last few years though, even on Eighties nights.
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