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, '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, 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

Ninety-nine 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, 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' free, 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