Tangerine Dream Lyrics

[ide!lofdahl@Sun.COM (Corey Lofdahl)]

Here it is, the long awaited translation
of the lyrics from Tangerine Dream's Exit
album.  The language is Russian which 
suggests that "Kiew" is German for "Kiev".
The pronunciation of the lyrics is not good
(according to the translator) which suggests 
the singer is not a native speaker of Russian.

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band : Tangerine Dream
album: Exit (1981)
song : Kiew Mission (1st track, 1st side)
Translation from Russian by Irina Kazakova
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Continents:
Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, America
This is the world

Past Time
Present Time
Future Time
Peace, this is Peace
To be understood
To understand
To ask
To answer
To talk
To contemplate
To guess not knowing (?)
Transfer
To associate with friends
To exchange opinions
Borderlessness
Reasonable living
Talk, conversation

Continents:
Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, America
This is the world

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What's funny is that for years I imagined 
the language was some strange and forgotten runic 
dialect.  After the enumeration of the continents
comes the phrase "eta zymla", "this is the world", 
which I incorrectly thought to be "runic dialect" for 
the lost continent Atlantis.  I further imagined the
song to be a remembrance of, or last message from, 
the strange, extinct Tolkien-esque civilization that 
existed there, kind of like Queen's "Year of '39".  
Imagine my surprise when the translation revealed these 
comparatively prosaic lyrics.  Such is to be expected,
fantasy is often better than reality.

		--Corey

"Eta zymla, we are the children ..."