Ninety-nine red balloons floatin' in the summer sky,
A panic bell says "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, where ninety-nine red balloons go by.
99 Decision Street, ninety-nine ministers meet,
To worry, worry, super-scurry. Call the troops up 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.
Ninety-nine lights up the air like super high-tech jet fighters.
Everyone's a super hero, everyone's a Captain Kirk.
With orders to identify, to clarify and classify what's travelin' the summer sky,
as Ninety-nine red balloons go by.
Ninety-nine dreams I have had, and every one a red balloon.
It's all over and I'm standing pretty in this dust that was a city.
If I could find one souveneer, just to prove the world was here...
And here is a red balloon. I think of you, and let it go...