99 Red Balloons

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

Till one by one, they were all 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 lights, it's a 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

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

And this is it boys, this is war

The president is on the line

As 99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons go by

As 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had

Every one a red balloon

It's all over, I'm standing pretty

In this dust that was our city

If I could find one souvenir

Just to prove the world was here

Here it is, a red balloon

And I think of you and let it go