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 Take a phase, box in the software Flash the message, something's out there Floating in the summer sky 99 red balloons go by 99 red balloons go by 99 red balloons go by 99 red balloons Floating in the summer sky Panic belt, it's right under Something here from somewhere else The flower machine springs to life It opens up one eager eye Focusing in on the sky When 99 red balloons go by 99 red balloons go by 99 Decision Street 99 Ministers meet Bori Bori, Zimbabwe Call the troops up in a hurry This is what we've waited for This is it boys, this is war This crazy jam is on the line 99 red balloons go by 99 red balloons go by 99 red balloons go by 99 knives of the air Super high tech check fighters Everyone's a silver hero Everyone's a Captain Cook With honours to identify Clarify and classify Scramble in the summer sky 99 red balloons go by 99 red balloons go by 99 dreams I have had Everyone a red balloon It's all over and I'm standing pretty In this dust I was a city If I could find this souvenir Just to prove the world was here And here is a red balloon I'll think of you, let it go