You & I in a little toyshop
buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
Till one by one, they are gone
Back at base, sparks in the software
Flash the message, "Somethin's 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
there's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
The 99 red balloons go by

(At) 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

As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had
and 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