99 RED BALLOONS

Album(s): 99 Luftballons (International), Nena: die Band

English Text: K. McAlea

Music: Uwe Fahrenkrog-Peterson

German Version: 99 Luftballons
Alternative version(s): Club Mix

99 Red Balloons

You and I
in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons
with the money we got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Till one by one,
they were gone

Back at base bugs in the software [Sometimes written "'sparks' in the software", sometimes "'box' 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
open's up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky,
where 99 red balloons go by.

99 Decision Street
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 general is on the line
as 99 red balloons go by

99 Knights of the Air,
ride super high-tech jet fighters.
Everyone's a silver hero.
Everyone's a Captain Kirk.
With orders to identify,
to clarify and classify.
Scramble in the summer sky
Where 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 the city.
If I can find a souvenign
Just to prove the world was here.
And here's a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.