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 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