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
Till one by one they were gone back at best
Fox in the software
Flash the message something's out there
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by
Ninety nine red balloons
Floating in a summer sky
Panic birds it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eagle eye
Focusing it on the sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by
Ninety nine decisions three
Ninety nine ministers me 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 let the years go by
Ninety nine lights up the air
Like 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
Ninety nine red balloons go by
As ninety nine red balloons go by
Ninety nine dreams I have had
And everyone a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standing pretty in this dust
That was a city 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