side by side slide by space and time the neil armstrong telecasts of nineteen sixty nine proportion distortion i saw in those shoes and i learned a kind of ego that i doubt i ll ever lose it s nine lives to rigel five nine lives to rigel five and i ve waited nine lives for rigel five with nothing to say when i arrive joan jones proposed that we leave our homes like runaway gnomes in the twilight zone they said baby when you re grown it all means more i said let s get out the twister game and get down on all fours it s nine lives to rigel five nine lives to rigel five and i ve waited nine lives for rigel five with nothing to say when i arrive well i know a problem that physics won t resolve a cover that acid won t dissolve a place that s just too far i think for us to go now is wise to have a hope so strong for real time answers to real world wrongs oh susanna if you ve got to cry for me send me back to alabama with a banjo on my knee and nine lives to rigel five nine lives to rigel five and i ve waited nine lives for rigel five with nothing to say but goodbye