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

As 99 red balloons 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 waited for

This is it boys, this is war!

The president is on the line

As 99 red balloons go by.

99 Kriegsminister

Streichholz und Benzinkanister

Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute

Witterten schon fette Beute

Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht

Mann, wer haette das gedacht

Dass es einmal soweit kommt

Wegen 99 ballons

(99 war ministers

Matches and cans of gas

Thought they were really smart

Thought they found some good prey

Yelled war and wanted power

Man who would have thought that

It would go so far

Because of 99 red balloons ) english translation

99 dreams I have had,

And every one, a red balloon.

It's all over and I'm standin' pretty

In the dust that was a city.

If I could find a souvenir

Just to prove the world was here...

And here it is, a red balloon

I think of you and let it go....