99 Red Balloons
Nena
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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
And focusing it on the sky
Where ninety-nine red ballons go by.

Ninety-nine decision street
Ninety-nine 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 ninety-nine red balloons go by.

Ninety-nine knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters.
Ev'ry one's a silver hero
Ev'ry one's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by.

As ninety-nine red balloons go by.

Ninety-nine dreams I have had -
In ev'ry one a red balloon.
It's all over and I'm standing pretty
In this dust that was a city.
If 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.