You and I in a little toy shop
buy a bag of balloons with the money we got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Till one by one, they were gone
Back at base bugs in the software
Flash the message:
"Something's out there."
Floating in the summer sky,
99 red balloons 9o by
99 red balloons, floating
in the summer sky
Panic bells ! It's red alert !
There's something here
from somewhere else
The war machine springs
to life open's up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky,
where 99 red balloons go by
99 Decision street. 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out, in a hurry !
"This is what we've waited for
This is it, boys, this is war !"
The general is on the line
as 99 red balloons go by
Oh ! 99 red balloons go by
99 Knights of the Air,
ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a silver hero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify,
to clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
Where 99 red balloons go by
99 dreams I have had
In every one, a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was the city
If I can find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here
And here's a red balloon
I think of you and let it go
