If you read the lyrics with that thought, it does make sense. I have heard that this song is about a girl who commits suicide. It came out of a conversation about money. The phrase painted on the bridge ("I don't want the world, I just want your half") was not actually found on a bridge, although fans did make this into a popular graffiti. The 1964 World's Fair was attended by both members of They Might Be Giants and represents confusion. A classic tune!Ībout the singer's dream girl being on the other side of the world, never to cross paths. Oh, he did everything right He brought the woman out of me, so many times, easily And in the morning when he woke all I left him was a note I told him I am the flower you are the seed We walked in the garden we planted a tree" then later in the song we hear the lyrics "Then it happened one day, we came round the same way You can imagine his surprise when he saw his own eyes I said please, please understand I'm in love with another man And what he couldn't give me was the one little thing that you can" this tell us that she is happy now and is pleading with him not to say anything. "So we found this hotel, it was a place I knew well We made magic that night. This song is about a married woman who can't conceive with her husband so she goes about having one night stands with strangers to get herself preggers.
" All I wanna do is make love to you", Heart.Finally the only way they could remember it was to sing the actual notes: A-B-A-C-A-B and hence the song got a name. I was watching MTV unplugged or Pop-up video, and to hear Phil Collins tell it the title for this song had to do with the band members trouble playing the bridge. Radar technology was at its height, as it could detect anything in the sky.well anything except a balloon a balloon that could trigger nuclear war. The Cold War Era, gave way to much hysteria about what "they" were doing, when "they" would attack, and how "they" would attack. After the war, Nena is "standing pretty, in this dust that was a city." They saw the red balloons and mistook it for an attack of some sort, and launched their weapons of mass destruction. Because of the tension between East and West Germany, military people were always on alert. The song is about someone letting 99 red balloons go flying into the sky in Berlin. It is correct that Both the English and German versions of the song tell a story of ninety-nine balloons floating into the air, triggering an apocalyptic overreaction by military forces.The lead singer of Nena, Gabriel was against the U.S and she did not want to release the English version of the song! I'm unsure if he knew her already, or if he really got her number off the wall. When he wrote the song, she had to change her number because she kept getting phone calls related to the song. He dated a girl named Jenny, who's number was actually 867-5309. A good music song, lyrics are somewhat funny. It basically describes the life of a hooker on the job. This song is simple to 's about a hooker named Charlotte who you can "meet" on 22 Acacia Avenue. And Prince is saying that everyone has a bomb we could die any day, so tonight I'm gonna party. Past editor: Banasyġ999 is a song about the Reagan administration and the common use and access of bombs and nuclear weapons in the US. This page currently edited by: 80s Cheerleader. Remember from the eighties are pretty easily understood. Sure if this page is going to generate many comments, as a lot of the songs I I welcome emailĪbout any song you would like to discuss here, as well as follow up email toĪnyone else's comments about a song already discussed here. Songs like "She-Bop" or "Turning Japanese" are really about. This is an offshoot of the web page about masturbation since a lot of people don't know what The focus is on what certain songs of the eighties mean, especially songs thatĪren't immediately obvious. "What You Talking 'bout Willis?" The Meaning Behind Songs of the Eighties