[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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you and i in a little toy shop buy a bag of balloons with the money
weve got,
set them free at the break of dawn till one by one they were gone
[Verse 1]
(not pm)
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back at base bugs in the software, flash the message somethings out
there.
floating in the summer sky, 99 red ballons go by.
[Fill 1]
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pm |--| |--|
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[Verse 2]
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99 red balloons, far out in the summer sky, panic bells its red alert
theres something here from somewhere else.
[Solo]
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[Verse 3]
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99 decision street, 99 ministers league
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to worry, worry, superscurry, call out the troops now in a hurry.
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this is what weve 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.
(German spoken bit is the same as first verse with addition to solo)
[Solo 2]
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[Outro]
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99 dreams i have had in every one a red balloon
its all over and im standing pretty in the dust that was a city
if i could find a souvenir just to prove a world was here
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and here it is a red balloon i think of you and let it go.