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 Ninety-nine red balloons go by / D Em / G A / : Ninety-nine 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 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 waited 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 Ride super-high-tech jet fighters Everyone's a superhero Everyone's a Captain Kirk With orders to identify To clarify and classify Scramble in the summer sky As ninety-nine red balloons go by As ninety-nine red balloons go by Ninety-nine dreams I have had And 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 Simple no matter what the cause, the ending will be the same: 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 Death and destruction.
