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 gone Back at base, boxing the software Flash the message, something's out there Floating in the summer sky Ninety-nine red balloons go by Ninety-nine red balloons floating in the summer sky Panic badge, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The one machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye, focusing it on the sky Ninety-nine red balloons go by Ninety-nine decisions treed Ninety-nine ministers meet Too wary, wary, super scary 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 Ninety-nine red balloons go by Ninety-nine knights of the era Super high-tech jet fighters Everyone's a silver hero Everyone's a Captain Kirk With orders to identify To clarify and classify Scramble in the summer sky Ninety-nine red balloons go by Ninety-nine red balloons go by Ninety-nine dreams I have had And everyone a red balloon It's all over and I'm standing pretty In this dust that was a city 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