You and I in a little toy shop
buy a bag of ballons 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 massage "Something out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 Red Ballons go by.

99 red ballons floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
They war machine springs of life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As 99 red ballons go by.

99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
to worry, worry, super-scurry
Call out the troops now in a hurry
This is what we've waiting for
This is boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red ballons go by.

99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fьr schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten macht
Mann wдr hдtte das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt 
Wegen 99 Luftballons

99 Dreams I have had
In every one a red ballon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In the dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here...
And here it is a red ballon
Ithink of you and let it go.