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      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 Kirk      With orders to identify   To clarify and classify   Scramble in the summer sky   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 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