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 base, sparks 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 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
  And focusing it on the sky
  The ninety nine red ballons go by
  
  Ninety nine decisions treat
  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 super hero
  Everyone's a Captain Kirk
  With orders to identify
  To clarify and classify
  Scrambling the summer sky
  Ninety nine red balloons go by
  
  As ninety nine red balloons go by
  
  Ninety nine 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 could find a souvenir
  Just the prove the world was here
  And here is a red balloon
  I think of you and let it go