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Thread #57271 Message #900297
Posted By: Joe Offer
28-Feb-03 - 02:47 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Besuchen Sie Europa
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Besuchen Sie Europa
This should give you a general idea of the meaning, although I didn't catch an idiom or two. Powerful song, no? -Joe Offer-
Visit Europe While It Still Stands (Geier Sturzflug)
If there are U-boats at anchor in the Grand Canal And rocket launchers in St. Peter's Plaza in Rome And a carpet of bombs hovers over the bazaar of Ankara And a Pershing II rises from the hills of Olympus
CHORUS Then is it too late That is when nothing more will happen Visit Europe While it still stands.
An atomic mushroom rises in the air before the Cathedral of Cologne And Heaven is filled with the fragrance of neutron waffles weapons. If the Eiffel Tower in Paris bows toward the west in a final greeting And a delicate Alpenglow appears in the vicinity of Big Ben CHORUS
If haute cuisine becomes a witch's cauldron Where the cook flames his old world from overseas Then people will laugh and applaud And the waiter himself will gain a step (?) Even the waiter will get a kick What will remain with us other than our culture We'll wish, "Good appetite." CHORUS
Then is it too late That is when nothing more will happen Visit Europe While it still stands. While it still stands. While it still stands. While it still stands. While it still stands.