Years ago I read that the on that day in 1963 the U.S. government decided to overthrow Ngo Dinh Diem, the CIA station chief in Saigon broadcast a go-ahead code message to the plotters over the radio, telling them the coup was happening right now, and the text of the radio message was: "Number nine, number nine, number nine..." I think the business about "number nine" in "Revolution #9" refers to that message.
But sometimes I misunderstand pop song lyrics. For years when Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were actually singing
We are stardust, we are golden
We are (something something something)
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
I heard them singing
We are starving, we are frozen
We are pale and broken-hearted
And we've got to get ourselves back to the darkness
Woodstock was a mud pit in the rain, Nixon was President, the Vietnam War was going full-blast, and my draft lottery number was 3, so the lyrics as I heard them fit better.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net
** How can you laugh when you know I'm down? - Lennon **