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 Till one by one, they were gone Bag it based, bugs in the software Flash the message, something's out there Floating in the summer sky Ninety-nine red balloons go boom! Ninety-nine red balloons Floating in the summer sky Turning bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else A war machine, it springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing head on the sky There's ninety-nine red balloons go boom! Ninety-nine decisions straight Ninety-nine ministers made Don't worry, worry, super scary Call out the troops now in a hurry This is what we've been waiting for This is it, boys, this is war A president hangs on the line There's ninety-nine red balloons go boom! Ninety-nine war ministers Spray-shots and petrol canisters Here we smart people dance Weather-tension, weather-weather Like from war and cloud power One would have thought That it would come to this Because of ninety-nine balloons Ninety-nine dreams I've had And every one a red balloon It's all over and I'm standing pretty In the dust that was a city If I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here Here it is, a red balloon I think of you and let it go I think of you and let it go