Scorpions changes ‘Wind of Change’ lyrics as song ‘romanticised Russia’

Famous rock band Scorpions has brought some changes in the lyrics of their most famous song ‘Wind of Change lyrics’. The lead singer of the band Klaus Meine revealed he changed the lyrics as he no longer wanted to ‘romanticise Russia’ after the recent war, reports the Guardian.

“To sing Wind of Change as we have always sung it, that’s not something I could imagine any more,” Klaus Meine told Die Zeit. “It simply isn’t right to romanticise Russia with lyrics like: ‘I follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park … Let your balalaika sing’”. Instead, he said, his band had decided to change the words to their most famous song during their on-going US and European tour, which opened in Las Vegas on 26 March, a month after the start of the invasion.

The new lyrics, projected on to a screen behind the band, say: “Now listen to my heart / It says Ukrainia / Waiting for the wind to change.”

Meine composed the words on 3 and 4 September 1989, after Scorpions had performed at the Moscow Music Peace festival in mid-August.

The song, was released in December 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, is highly recognized as the music of the era of economic and social transition in the former Soviet Union that marked the end of the Cold War.