Robbie called, and said the flight
would take place just tonight
- in deep space...
So I looked in the hangar and there I saw
An Armoured Five and then three more
Prospectors who'd come with us to fly, right...

I don't know where we're going, or where we're gonna land
Those Heechee instruments are pretty hard to understand
so we have set by chance a bearing to find the Heechee
So right now I'm gonna get high and do drinking here in bar
Perhaps our Armoured Five - might just collide at neutron star
as we're heading at random and flying through space for Heechee

Another Five left just after us
heading Sagittarius
- or Orion, or Draco?
So we're speeding in the dark on the hyperdrive
FTL in our Armoured Five
Days go by, and we are going nuts -

I don't know where we're going or if we will survive
Many of the Prospectors will not come back alive
as we've flown forty light-years in deep space to find the Heechee
Forty light-years and everything by chance
and no one ever over Heechee had a single glance
as we're faster than light and flying through space for Heechee

I felt braking as we slowed speed down
I looked through window to see what's found
- is it Heechee?
Klara looked and Dan did too
where we've come and what to do -
I heard him saying "My God, it's black hole!"

I don't know where they're hiding - or where might they have gone
The Heechee must be there and they are somewhere to be found
we've flown so many light years, we've been flying through space for Heechee
Now we've stuck here in the ergosphere and cannot fly away
Time, it just keeps slowing down, I guess we're here to stay
as we've found a black hole after flying through space for Heechee

- Use grav sling to get away and fly through deep space for Heechee!