buy a bag of ballons 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 massage "Something out there"
 Floating in the summer sky
 99 Red Ballons go by.

 99 red ballons floating in the summer sky
 Panic bells, it's red alert
 There's something here from somewhere else
 They war machine springs of life
 Opens up one eager eye
 Focusing it on the sky
 As 99 red ballons go by.

 99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
 to worry, worry, super-scurry
 Call out the troops now in a hurry
 This is what we've waiting for
 This is boys, this is war
 The president is on the line
 As 99 red ballons go by.

 99 Kriegsminister
 Streichholz und Benzinkanister
 Hielten sich f?r schlaue Leute
 Witterten schon fette Beute
 Riefen: Krieg und wollten macht
 Mann w?r h?tte das gedacht
 Dass es einmal soweit kommt
 Wegen 99 Luftballons

 99 Dreams I have had
 In every one a red ballon
 It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
 In the dust that was a city
 If I could find a souvenier
 Just to prove the world was here...
 And here it is a red ballon
 Ithink of you and let it go