Nova Mob - Space Jazz lyrics
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, sayeth the Lord As quoted by the blind, toothless man And as ye sow, so shall ye also reap And then the board, the seamstress Queen of the harvest as she mounted the crib of carnations Running its way down Dealey Plaza, where the books are held in storage And she flashed a giant j**el, a magnificent ruby Flashing things, flashing questions from flash cards, flashing a gun And then there was a giant flash This just in from Houston Atlas held the earth on his shoulders And tired as he became, he became a missile And then the conveyance for Telstar, then Satcom then the two, twin Gemini astronauts Romulus and Uncle Remus Don't throw me in the briar patch Br'er Fox, said Br'er Rabbit He hunched his back legs, he leapt skyward Into the heaven knows what have you He re-entered the atmosphere He saw his home, he ran about his home The beautiful earth, he ran about the earth He smiled This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind Man, kind and disinterested in his current wars applauded the accomplishment Has terrible power of effectiveness Effective July 1969 Men and their through moments, selects suits Danced and played in and on their own little world Away from earthly pain No territory, no boundary, no enemy We will land a man on the moon in this century Well there she goes, she's really beautiful She's flying up in the sky I really can't describe how she looks It's really, it's really out of this world Um, she's reaching for the sky ladies and gentlemen She's gone. Right now the altitude is about eleven thousand feet And she's, well, this is the thirteenth successful mission for the Apollo program Her destination is the Sea if Tranquility Um, while they're up there I understand They're going to be doing some geological testing on the moon's surface And leading a long distance survey in the Rover And he's going along on the mission for the third time He's going to be travelling along with two of the astronauts With one remaining on board