99 red balloons (1983) (midi)

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1. 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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2. 99 red balloons floating in the summer sky,

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panic bells, it's red alert, there's something here from somewhere else.

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The war machine springs to life, opens up one eager eye,

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focusing it on the sky where 99 red balloons go by.

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3. 99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet,

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to worry, worry, super-scurry, call the troops out in a hurry.

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This is what we've waited for, this is it, boys, this is war,

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the president is on the line, as 99 red balloons go by.

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4. 99 Knights of the air, ride super-high-tech jet fighters,

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everyone's a silver hero, everyone's a Captain Kirk,

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with orders to identify, to clarify and classify,

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scramble in the summer sky, as 99 red balloons go by.

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99 red balloons go by.

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5. 99 dreams I have had, in every one a red balloon,

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it's all over and I'm standin' pretty, in this dust that was a city.

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If I could find a souvenir, just to prove the world was here,

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and here is a red balloon, I think of you and let it go.

(Orig. = capo 2nd) (Nena)