蝎子主唱克劳斯·梅因（Klaus Meine）讨论了赛道背后的历史变革之风并阐述了他认为这首歌如何鉴于最近的政治事件失去了所有含义。
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与乌克兰交谈TSMScorpion的歌手Klaus Meine最近承认，在乌克兰和俄罗斯之间的冲突之后，他认为乐队最成功的打击“失去了成为和平国歌的意义”。
Looking back at the circumstances in which the song came to be written, Meine reminisced about Scorpions’ time playing in the Soviet Union over three decades ago and explained how the track was inspired by the sight of thousands of Russians cheering them on as they become the first hard rock band to perform there.
“When I wrote [the track], it was about the time when the Scorpions went for the first time to the Soviet Union back in ‘88 when we played 10 shows in Leningrad,” Meine said, continuing to describe his upbringing in West Germany. “After all those years living in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, living with the Iron Curtain […] it was so very inspired by this moment of hope, hoping for a more peaceful world and just joining together into a peaceful future. And so that was the expression.”
这位歌手继续说道，他最近在上个月在拉斯维加斯演奏乐队的开幕式演出时，反思了他最近选择改变歌曲的歌词的选择。
“We were just preparing a new tour […and] I thought this is not the time to romanticize Russia with lyrics like, ‘Follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park’, I wanted to make a statement that we support the Ukraine in this very difficult situation,” he says. “So many years later now, I think the song has lost the meaning of being a peace anthem, being a song of hope. I had to change those lyrics.”
在表演中，Meine在发起曲目之前向人群发表了声明，并说：“这首歌呼吁和平，今晚，我想，我们将大声唱歌。我们将其奉献给乌克兰的勇敢人民。”
总理结束了采访，阐明了他们的歌曲创作中这种政治影响力远非最近的发展，他说：
“[Growing] up in Germany in the ’50s, ’60s, it was nothing to be proud of […] When we grew up, everything was focused on the way to leave the past behind and hopefully build together a better future for our children… And this is what we try to support with being artists, being musicians, writing songs, joining together and making this planet a better place.”
在下面找到对Klaus Meine的完整采访。