99 Red Balloons

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 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 99 red balloons go by 99 red balloons floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert, there's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life, opening one eager eye Focusing it in the sky as 99 red balloons go by 99 decision 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, 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 classify Scramble in the summer sky as 99 red balloons go by 99 dreams I have had, every one a red balloon It's all over and I'm standing pretty in this dust that was a city I could find a souvenir just to prove the world was here And here's a red balloon, I think of you and let it go