You and I in a little toy shop buy a bag of
balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til 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
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet to worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
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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 Kirk
with orders to identify, to clarify and classify
scramble in the summer sky,
99 red balloons go by, as 99 red balloons go by

99 Dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here...
And here is a red balloon I think of you and let it go