I'm making the tapes

Of my favorite songs

(The 3's and up)

From Survey 25

(The second half of 1987)

As I read Dragon's Egg

By Robert L. Forward  

I'm reading about "Pink‑Eyes,"

The young neutron star native

Who has seen and basked in

A laser radar scanner beam

Panning across the star's surface

From an Earth mission ship

Hanging in the neutron star's sky  

The beam brings ecstasy

To his crystalline body

When he lies directly in its path  

He spreads word of the miracle

To the others of his clan

And is proclaimed "God's‑Chosen"

When they too swoon in the beam's sweep  

He sets off with an entourage

To preach the news

To his "planet's" other clans  

All of the above events occur

In the space of just a couple of pages  

As I'm reading this last development

The Hooters song playing

Starts catching my attention,

Saying something about a satellite

And seeing the light  

My curiousity is piqued enough

For me to check the lyric sheet  

The song is "Satellite"

And here are the lyrics:          

"Hush little baby don't cry like that

God's gonna buy you a cadillac

He's chosen you to do his will

You can spread the word in your coupe de ville  

So jump in the river and learn to swim

God's gonna wash away all your sins

And if you still can't see the light

God's gonna buy you a satellite  

Look to the heavens and see it shine

Heals the sick and leads the blind

Tune it in and hear it say

It's countin' down to judgement day  

So jump in the river...  

Hey satellite man your time has come

Your word received by everyone

And should you fall, well that's ok

You love the ones that you betray  

So jump in the river and learn to swim

God's gonna wash away all your sins

And when at last you see the light

God's gonna buy you a satellite"