Waiting for the message to come A handshake from deepest space Pressing to the headset all night For aliens’ faintest breath Hoping for a biped to come Untangling human doubt Searching through the static all night For signals that make some sense
Will they tell whatever the pyramids meant? Did we evolve or were our chromosomes sent? Will they find our brainpans a fraction too small? Do the labyrinths we’ve created lead nowhere at all?
Here we are in Mississippi Tracking down a swamp gas saucer Television cameras glowing Somewhere in the middle of a prarie on a summer night The neighbors gather ’round, hoping for a sign When the moon casts dark shadows When the men of conscience weaken When the preachers spread their panic Armageddon draws us near its gaping mouth And whispers that the universe isn’t benign
Crashing though a telephone booth To put in a call to Christ Looking for a sign in the sky Ezekiel’s wheels on high Waiting for a savior to come To rescue us from the brink Quoting from the scientist’s logs Defending our oldest wish
Tiny needle in a haystack Are the signals weak and garbled? Conjuring its myths and dreaming Somewhere in the middle of the galaxy a capsule floats Boasting the image of man