Astronomy - Jethro Tull

The middle lane has trapped my car

In red-light claustrophobia

I slip the shackles, cut the rope ---

Stand naked with a telescope

As the cat walks alone

Under a big sky

Against the dark so thin and white ---

Gonna be a big sky night

Miss Galileo, come with me

And view the new Astronomy

Black hole dressing on salad plate ---

Quasar at the kissing gate

Now the cat, he walks alone

Under a big sky

Umbrella dome pin-pricked in lights ---

Gonna be a big sky night

My spectacles, my white lab coat ---

My coffee, thermos and my notes

I pat my pockets.

I got the keys

To the secrets of the observatory

And closing the door

I feel a new dawn

As the darker slides align ---

You to yours and me to mine

And now you stand, assisting me ---

I can touch what I can see, see, see

I look in wonder, I feel no shame ---

See the consequences of the game

Expand the universe

Head for the Big Bang

Reach for my switch and shout ---

Gonna turn the big sky out

There’s got to be astronomy

Astronomy