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   Where 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.      99 (Neunundneunzig) Kriegsminister   Streichholz und Benzinkanister   hielten sich für schlaue Leute   witterten schon fette Beute   riefen: "Krieg", und wollten Macht   Mann, wer hätte das gedacht   daß es einmal soweit kommt   wegen 99 Luftballons      99 dreams I have had   In every one a red balloon   It's all over and I'm standin' pretty   In this dust that was a city   If I could find a souvenier   Just to prove the world was here...   And here is a red balloon   I think of you and let it go.