A Fire Inside - 99 red balloons

You and I in a little toy shopbuy 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 sky99 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 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 president is on the line As 99 red balloons go by.99 Knights of the airride super-high-tech jet fighters Everyone's a Silverhero Everyone's a Captain Kirk With orders to identify To clarify and classify Scramble in the summer sky As 99 red balloons go by.As 99 red balloons go by.99 dreams I have had In every one a red balloon It's all over and I'm standin' pretty In this dust that was a city If I could find a souvenier Just to prove the world was here...And here is a red balloon I think of you and let it go.