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 As 99 red balloons go by 99 Division 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 As 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 cla**ify Scramble in the summer sky As 99 red balloons go by 99 dreams I have had, each of them a red balloon Now its all over and I'm standing pretty, in the dust that was a city If i could find a soviner just to prove the world was here. Here it is a red balloon I think of you and let it go