You and I, and 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, "Some thing's out there"   Floating in the summer sky   Ninety-nine red balloons go by      Ninety-nine red balloons   Floating in the summer sky   Panic lads, it's a 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   Ninety-nine red balloons go by      Ninety-nine Decision Street   Ninety-nine ministers meet   To worry, worry, super-scurry   Call the troops out in a hurry      This is what we've waiting for   This is it boys, this is war   The President is on the line   As ninety-nine red balloons go by      Ninety-nine knights of the air   Riding super high-tech jet fighters   Everyone's a super hero   Everyone's a Captain Kirk      With orders to identify, to clarify and classify   Scrambling in the summer sky   As ninety-nine red balloons go by   Ninety-nine red balloons go by      Ninety-nine dreams I have had   Every one a red balloon   Now it's all over and I'm standin' pretty   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