Nena 99 Red Balloons lyrics

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
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
Opens up one eager eye, focusing it on the sky
Where 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
As 99 red balloons go by

99 Knights of the airway ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a Silver hero, everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify to clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
As 99 red balloons go by, as 99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had in every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir, just to prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon, I think of you and let it go