99 Red Balloons

Song 99 Red Balloons
Artist Sleeping at Last
Album Covers, Vol. 1

Lyrics

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[00:18.34] You and I in a little toy shop
[00:22.45] buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
[00:26.74] Set them free at the break of dawn
[00:31.04] 'Til one by one, they were gone
[00:35.64] Back at base, bugs in the software
[00:39.89] Flash the message, "Something's out there"
[00:44.43] Floating in the summer sky
[00:48.83] 99 red balloons go by.
[01:09.75] 99 red balloons
[01:13.54] floating in the summer sky
[01:17.59] Panic bells, it's red alert
[01:21.69] There's something here from somewhere else
[01:25.60] The war machine springs to life
[01:29.73] Opens up one eager eye
[01:33.77] Focusing it on the sky
[01:37.91] As 99 red balloons go by.
[01:58.64] 99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
[02:06.23] To worry, worry, super-scurry
[02:10.31] Call out the troops now in a hurry
[02:14.30] This is what we've waited for
[02:18.29] This is it boys, this is war
[02:22.23] The president is on the line
[02:43.36][02:35.32][02:26.34] As 99 red balloons go by.
[03:07.60] 99 dreams I have had
[03:12.05] In every one a red balloon
[03:16.49] It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
[03:20.83] In the dust that was a city
[03:25.08] If I could find a souvenier
[03:29.58] Just to prove the world was here...
[03:33.83] And here it is, a red balloon
[03:38.23] I think of you and let it go...