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 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