Tycho Songtext
von Northling

Ribs chilled in those spaces of the mind
An eye "virile, precise and absolutely certain"
From the mad webs of Uranusborg
Encountering the NOVA
Every impulse of light exploding from the core
As life flies out of us

Tycho whispering at last

What we see, we see
And seeing is changing

The light that shrivels a mountain
And leaves a man alive

Heartbeat of the pulsar
Heart sweating through my body

The radio impulse
Pouring in from Taurus
I am bombarded, yet I stand


I have been standing all my life
In the direct path of a battery of signals
The most accurately transmitted
Most untranslatable language in the universe
I am a galactic cloud so deep, so involuted
That a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me
And has taken
I am an instrument in the shape of a woman
Trying to translate pulsations into images
For the relief of the body
And the reconstruction of the mind

Every impulse of light exploding from the core
As life flies out of us
Tycho whispering at last

Exploding
Changing
Exploding
Changing
Exploding

Every impulse of light exploding from the core
As life flies out of us
Tycho whispering at last