Writer(s): Carlo Karges, Jörn Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Kevin McAlea, Nena

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

'Till one by one they were gone

Back at base sparks the software

Flash the message somethings 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 decisions treat

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 lights of the air

Ride super high tech jet fighters

Everyone's a super hero

Everyone's a Captain Kirk With orders to identify

To clarify and classify

Scramble in the summer sky

99 red balloons go by

99 red balloons go by

99 dreams I have had

In 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 a souvenir

Just to prove the world was here

And here is a red balloon

I think of you and let it go