It made for an interesting week in February 2023. Which lets you know how completely useless and trivial our major news outlets are.
lyrics
You and I in a war surplus shop,
Buy balloons to fly and pop,
Set them free and watch them float
Air pressure makes the balloons bloat,
Wandering across the border,
Heralding a New World Order,
Sliding through the Billings sky,
A single Chinese spy balloon goes by.
Chinese white spy balloons,
Peering in my living room,
Tracking me within my home,
I’ll call the feds on my cell phone,
They’ve had satellites for years,
But this gasbag sets off my fears,
Much like those in Congress do,
They’re like Chinese spy balloons.
Spy balloons, spy balloons
Nena wrote this little song
To show us how things could go wrong.
About how everyone would freak,
And follow that balloon all week,
Mobilizing fighter planes,
Shoot it down, find the remains,
99 would start the fun,
Turns out that they only needed one.
Spy balloon, spy balloon
How apt that it came to play
In the week of Groundhog Day,
When weather people drop their tech
To see which way Phil bends his neck.
Spying cams surround the globe,
Such deep secrets they can probe,
But the country gasps and swoons
About one stupid spy balloon.
Spy balloon, spy balloon
99 dreams I have had,
In each one, things are not so bad,
Nations didn’t need to spy,
People didn’t need to die,
No more weapons were stockpiled,
Children played, and old folks smiled,
And no one went off like a loon,
Paranoid of stupid spy balloons.
credits
released August 4, 2023
"99 Luftballoons" as recorded by Nena
Words by Carlo Karges
Music by Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen
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