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.