99 Red Balloons

You and I in a little toy shop

Buy a bag of balloons with the money we 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, opening one eager eye

Focusing it in the sky as 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, 99 red balloons go by

99 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 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had, every one 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's a red balloon, I think of you and let it go