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Artist: AFI
Canonical path: /afi/99-red-balloons
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99 Red Balloons
Read 99 Red Balloons lyrics by AFI on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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99 Red Balloons
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You and I in a little toy shop
buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, "Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by.
99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine it springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As 99 red balloons go by.
99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call out the troops now in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.
...in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by.
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AFI performs "99 Red Balloons", and this lyric page sits inside the AFI catalog on LyroVerse.
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