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 out the troops now 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 Kriegsminister
  Streichholz und Benzinkanister
  Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
  Witterten schon fette Beute
  Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
  Mann, wer haette das gedacht
  Dass es einmal soweit kommt
  Wegen 99 Luftballons
    99 dreams I have had
  In every one a red balloon
  It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
  In the dust that was a city
  If I could find a souvenier
  Just to prove the world was here...
  And here it is, a red balloon
  I think of you and let it go.