You and I in a little toy shop
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Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
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Set them free at the break of dawn
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Til one by one, they were gone
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Back at base bugs in the software
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Flash the message, something's out there
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Floating in the summer sky
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99 red balloons go by
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99 red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
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Panic bells it's red alert
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There's something here from somewhere else
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The war machine springs to life
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Opens up one eager eye
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Focusing it on the sky as 99 red balloons go by
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99 Decision street
99 ministers meet
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To worry, worry, super scurry
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Call the troops out in a hurry
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This is what we've waited for
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This is it boys, this is war
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The president is on the line
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As 99 red balloons go by
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99 knights of the air
Ride super high tech jet fighters
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Everyone's a super hero Everyone's a Captain Kirk
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With orders to identify
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To clarify, and classify
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Scramble in the summer sky
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99 red balloons go by
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99 dreams I have had
Every one a red balloon
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It's all over and I'm standing pretty
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In this dust that was a city
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If I could find a souvenir
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Just to prove the world was here
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And here is a red balloon
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I think of you, and let it go
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