99 Red Ballons

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
99red balloons go by
99red 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 99red balloons go by 99red balloons go by
99Decision street
99ministers 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 99red balloons go by
99knights 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
99red balloons go by
99dreams 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