You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money weve 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, Somethings out there
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, its red alert
Theres something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
99 red ballons go by

99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what weve 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
Everyones a Silverhero
Everyones a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by

As 99 red balloons go by!

99 dreams I have had
In ever one, a red balloon
Its all over and Im standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvienir
Just to prove the world was here …
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go …