You and I in a little toy shop   I'll 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 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 it 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 out the troops now 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 Kriegsminister   Streichholz und Benzinkanister   Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute   Witterten schon fette Beute   Riefen Krieg und wollten Macht   Mann wer haette das gedacht   Dass es einmal soweit kommt   Wegen 99 Luftballoons      99 dreams I have had   In every one a red balloon   It's all over and I'm standin' pretty   In the dust that was a city   If I could find a souvenir   Just to prove the world was here   And here it is a red balloon   I think of you and let it go