| You and I, and 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, «Some thing’s out there»
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| Floating in the summer sky
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| Ninety-nine red balloons go by
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| Ninety-nine red balloons
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| Floating in the summer sky
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| Panic lads, it’s a 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
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| Ninety-nine red balloons go by
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| Ninety-nine Decision Street
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| Ninety-nine 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 waiting 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 ninety-nine red balloons go by
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| Ninety-nine knights of the air
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| Riding super high-tech jet fighters
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| Everyone’s a super hero
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| Everyone’s a Captain Kirk
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| With orders to identify, to clarify and classify
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| Scrambling in the summer sky
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| As ninety-nine red balloons go by
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| Ninety-nine red balloons go by
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| Ninety-nine dreams I have had
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| Every one a red balloon
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| It’s all over and I’m standin' 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 |