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 as 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 knights of the air
  Ride super high tech jet fighters
  Everyone's a super hero Everyone's a Captain Kirk
  With orders to identify
  To clarify, and classify
  Scramble in the summer sky
  99 red balloons go by
    99 dreams I have had In every one a red balloon
  It's all over and I'm standing 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