Lyrics: Astronomy
Album: Under Wraps
Artist: 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.