99 red balloons -- Nena Kerner

   

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  'till one by one they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software  Flash the message something's out there
But floating in the summer sky  Ninety nine red balloons go by


Ninety nine red balloons  Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye And focussing it on the sky  Where ninety nine
 red ballons go by


Ninety nine decision street  Ninety nine ministers meet  To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry  This is what we've waited for  This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line  As Ninety nine red balloons go by


Ninety nine knights of the air  Ride super hightech jet fighters  Ev'ry one's a silver hero
Ev'ry one's a Captain Kirk  With orders to identify  To clarify and classify
Scramble in the summer sky  Ninety nine red balloons go by


Ninety nine dreams I have had  In ev'ry one a red balloon   It's all over and I'm standing
pretty  In this dust that was a city  If could find a souvenir  Just the prove the world was here
And here is a red balloon  I think of you and let it go                                (sing365)

 two children who buy 99 balloons at a toy shop and release them into the air, where faulty East German radar equipment registers the balloons as incoming weapons. The government immediately put their troops on red alert and scrambles fighter jets to intercept, which ultimately triggers a nuclear war between East and West. In the apocalyptic aftermath, the song's narrator stands in the rubble of the city and finds a single remaining balloon.                (wikipedia)