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 go 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 at 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
