english or german on the Nena track, and do you want to borrow the LP?
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I am a Nena heretic in that I prefer the English lyrics to the German. I think they flow better and have better "play" to them. "Horizont" is such a train wreck to throw into a song, for example.
And I think lines like: "Worry, worry, super-scurry / Call out the troops now in a hurry" — that really works! Compare with "Riefen, „Krieg!“, und wollten Macht / Mann, wer hätte das gedacht?" — really doesn't flow, and feels like a waste of a line.
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The real contrast to the "Riefen, Krieg!" line is, "This is what we've waited for / This is it, boys, this is war" — which is MUCH superior to "Screaming 'war!' and wanting power / man, who would have thought?" both lyrically and semantically.
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Fair, although I'll defend "Und dass so was von sowas kommt" as the lynchpin of the "all of this aggression is silliness" feel to the whole song.
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But maybe I am reading too much fatalism into that lyric.
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