I don't know why we're comparing both versions here, but I happen to like the message of this song. To me it's all about paranoia of the cold war. A simple thing like a pack of red balloons becomes a threat and the defenses going to extremes about it.
In the end, she says that she had 99 dreams, but they were all destroyed because of the war, exept for 1. That dream involves "you". Even though war can destroy many things, it cannot destroy love.
I agree a lot with this. Love is not destroyed, but because in the beginning it starts as "you and I" with the two people together and ends with just one, it sounds like the person she was talking about died, but the love was still there.
I agree a lot with this. Love is not destroyed, but because in the beginning it starts as "you and I" with the two people together and ends with just one, it sounds like the person she was talking about died, but the love was still there.
I don't know why we're comparing both versions here, but I happen to like the message of this song. To me it's all about paranoia of the cold war. A simple thing like a pack of red balloons becomes a threat and the defenses going to extremes about it.
In the end, she says that she had 99 dreams, but they were all destroyed because of the war, exept for 1. That dream involves "you". Even though war can destroy many things, it cannot destroy love.
I agree a lot with this. Love is not destroyed, but because in the beginning it starts as "you and I" with the two people together and ends with just one, it sounds like the person she was talking about died, but the love was still there.
I agree a lot with this. Love is not destroyed, but because in the beginning it starts as "you and I" with the two people together and ends with just one, it sounds like the person she was talking about died, but the love was still there.