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... Well I know a problem that physics can't resolve A cover that acid won't dissolve A place that's just too far, I think, for us to go Now is right 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