- published: 26 Sep 2015
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The Love Parade (German: Loveparade) was a popular electronic dance music festival and parade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It has been held annually in Germany 1989-2003 in Berlin, then again in 2006 in Berlin and from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region. The 2004 and 2005 events in Berlin and the 2009 event in Bochum were cancelled.
On 24 July 2010, a crowd rush at the Love Parade caused the death of 21 people, with at least 500 others injured. As a consequence of this, the organiser of the festival announced that no further Love Parades would be held and that the festival was permanently cancelled.
The parade first occurred just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It was started by the Berlin underground at the initiative of Matthias Roeingh (also known as "Dr Motte") and his then girlfriend Danielle de Picciotto. It was conceived as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding through love and music. It was supposed to be a bigger birthday party for Roeingh, later "Dr Motte", and the motto Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen (in English — Peace, Joy, Pancakes) stood for disarmament (peace), music (joy) and a fair food production/distribution (pancakes). Roeingh dissociated himself from the parade in 2006 because of the commercialization of the event.
Nervous in the break room*
Waiting for the ball to drop
The other foot to drop now
Started with a good year
Turned into a bad year
Salvaging the scraps I can
Thought we had a good time
Thought we had tricked time
You couldn't get away from me
I didnt feel the car crash
Didn't feel my heart smash
It happens too easily
Great ideas
God, we had great ideas
Didn't know this could happen to me
Struggling
To see the meaning in all of the meaningless
I wasted when I had you here
Breaking out the life vest
Cramming for the big test
Cupping tears in your hand
Not ready to lose you
Not ready for any of this to
Mess up my plans
Great ideas
God, I had great ideas
Didn't know this could happen to me
Struggling
To see the meaning in all of the meaningless
I wasted when I had you here
Never known so much love
I never known so much
I've never known so much
Promise me you'll hang on
Promise you I'll hang on
Promise
Will you wear your life vest
I will wear my life vest
Promise
Promise
Promise
Promise