## Metadata
**Caption:** synth pop, Cold War theme, 80s synths, anthemic chorus, female vocal, 118 BPM
**BPM:** 125
**Duration:** 194.0s
**Key:** A♭ major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
Ninety-nine balloons went drifting past
Nobody thought that they would fly so fast
Radar screens began to light up red
Someone in the bunker raised his head

[chorus]
Ninety-nine balloons up in the sky
Turned into a reason to ask why
Ninety-nine red flags went up instead
Over something nobody said

[verse]
Generals panicking over children's toys
Mistaking laughter for the sound of noise
Sirens wailing over a silly thing
While the paper balloons kept wandering

[chorus]
Ninety-nine balloons up in the sky
Turned into a reason to ask why
Ninety-nine red flags went up instead
Over something nobody said

[bridge]
Now the story's told in ruins and dust
How fear can turn to war from just mistrust
Ninety-nine years won't erase the scene
Of how close we came from a bad dream

[chorus]
Ninety-nine balloons up in the sky
Turned into a reason to ask why
Ninety-nine red flags went up instead
Over something nobody said