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, one by one they have gone, 

Back at base, back to the subway, 

Flash the message someones out there, 

Floatin' in the Summer sky, 99 Red Ballons go by 



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, one by one they have gone, 

Back at base, back to the subway, 

Flash the message someones out there, 

Floatin' in the Summer sky, 99 Red Ballons go by 



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, one by one they have gone, 

Back at base, back to the subway, 

Flash the message someones out there, 

Floatin' in the Summer sky, 99 Red Ballons go by