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 ninety nine red balloons go by ninety nine 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 opens up one eager eye focusing it on the sky as ninety nine red balloons go by ninety nine decisions treat ninety nine ministers meet to worry worry super scurry call out the troops now in a hurry this is what we ve waited for this is it boys this is war the president is on the line as ninety nine red balloons go by neunundneunzig kriegsminister streichholz und benzinkanister hielten sich fare schlaue leute witterten schon fette beute riefen krieg und wollten macht mann wer htte das gedacht da es einmal so weit kommt wegen neunundneunzig luftballons neunundneunzig luftballons ninety nine dreams i have had and every one a red balloon it s all over and i m standing pretty in the dust that was a city if i could find a souvenir just to prove the world was here here it is a red balloon i think of you and let it go13