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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 it 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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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 out the troops now 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 Kriegsminister |
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Streichholz und Benzinkanister |
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Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute |
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Witterten schon fette Beute |
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Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht |
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Mann, wer haette das gedacht |
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Dass es einmal soweit kommt |
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Wegen 99 Luftballons |
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(99 war Ministers |
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Matches and gasoline cans |
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Thought they were smart people |
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Already smelled fat prey |
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Called: war and wanted power |
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man who would have thought |
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That it could come so far |
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because of 99 balloons) translation |
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99 dreams I have had |
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In every one a red balloon |
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It's all over and I'm standin' pretty |
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In the dust that was a city |
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If I could find a souvenier |
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Just to prove the world was here... |
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And here it is, a red balloon |
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I think of you and let it go. |