Nena - 99 Red Balloons Lyrics

Original Lyrics (three different languages) in English

(Amsterdam - not a dream)

You and I in a little toy shop

Bought a bag of red hoops with the money you've got.

(Premonition)

They set them (men in red blouses) free at the break of dawn,

Until one by one, the red blouses (men in red shirts) were gone.

Back at base, a spike in the airwaves flash the message "Something's out there floating in the dark blue sky."

As 99 red blouses go by.

(Back to Amsterdam)

99 red balloons

Floating in the summer sky.

(Premonition)

Panic bells ring RED ALERT:

"Something's here from somewhere else."

The war machine springs to it's life

And opens up my eager eye,

focusing in on the skies as 99 red blouses go by.

99 decisions made.

99 mysterious me's.

Worry, worry, super-scurry.

Call your troops out in a hurry.

This is what you've waited for.

This is it boys, this is war.

Your president is on the line as 99 red blouses go by.

99 knights of the air ways:

Super-high-tech jet fighters.

Everyone's a super hero.

Everyone's a Captain Kirk.

With orders to identify, clarify, and classify.

Scramble into the light blue sky as 99 red blouses go by.

99 dreams I have had.

In every one, I read "balloon."

It's all over and I'm standin' pretty,

In this dust that was your city.

If I could find a souvenier,

Just to prove your world was here.

And here is a red hoop bag.

I think of you and let it go.

Written by me,

Tara Lea Seabolt at the time (Now Tara Lea Seabolt Fox) Sole Proprietor of Fearless Records, Zero Employees. No contract, no permission or rights. The"Whore house" refused to honor the contract I was forced into.