You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons withenter deleted
the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
Til'Til one by one, they were goneenter added
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 elseenter added
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky as
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red balloons go by

99 Decision street
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurryenter added
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by

99 knights of the air
Ride super high tech jet fighters
Everyone's a super hero
Everyone's a Captain Kirkenter added
With orders to identify
To clarify, clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have hadenter added
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every one one, a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a cityenter added
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon
I think of you, you and let it go