I Am The One You Warned Me Of
Fresh from zones of moisture
And afterward the meat
With spangles on my long-tailed suits
And songs to haunt the one that's saved
Just call me Desdinova
I'm sure to be
The lucky one
When destiny assigns wisdom
Known to me
This starry wisdom
I am the one you warned me of
I am the one who'd never, never lie
The writing in the notebook
Notation from the stars
Songs by Desdinova
And frost warnings from the women's farm
Whose agents could not ever see
His hilly eyes and too green rings
Obscured sight and fancy dreams
Holy mass, those thirteen fancy dreams
I am the one you warned me of
I am the one who'd never, never, never, never, never lie
Eyes like bottles and hands in my hair
Bottles of blackness the blacker the spare
I'll sit myself behind that clock
And play tunes on its belfry
Five fingers have I to play them like ten
Ten fingers have I to play them again
In decimal chains of mimicry
Whose notes will never, never fly
Until they quit those timely tunes
And entered that system from outside
I am the one you warned me of
I am the one who'd never, never lie
I am the one you warned me of
I am the one who'd never, never lie
No No No No
Del Rio Song
I've lived upon
The edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
By Del Rio's song.......Oh, Del Rio
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze
I think you'd know enough
To call in touch that outer frame
The inner gain, a sullen gulch
Which opens up on the way to Blindman's Bluff
A suburb now of River Roads
Where quandary and sublime improve
The sight whose imagery
Is sometimes that of fear
I've lived upon
The edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
By Del Rio's song.......Oh, Del Rio
When time gets slow, and rivers freeze
I think you'd know enough
To shut the gates of walled town walls
And putting up some good rum punch
Forget the way to Blindman's Bluff
So packed with eyes
That glow like coals
And pointing toward the North
Oh my boat left New Orleans in 1829
Let’s go
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
My destination’s secret
And the doctrine is soft
But just between the verse and me
It's a place where you can see
Lost, last and luminous
Scored to sky yet never found
Relics of jewels
And ant-track tools
A true ghost dance
Rehearsal Ground
I've lived upon
The edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
Yea ‘cause I've lived upon
The edge of chance
For twenty years or more
And this is what my friends all mean
By Del Rio's song.......Oh, Del Rio
In The Presence Of Another World
In the presence of another world
You guess the things unguessed
In the fullness of another world
There is no emptiness
In the promise of another world
A dreadful knowledge comes
How even space can modulate
And earthly things be done
Your master he's a monster
He will come on a bridge of paper
Inscribed with a hundred names of god
But he can count one more
The curse of life eternal
Written on the door
Your master.....he's a monster
Your master.....he's a monster
Your master.....he's a monster
In the presence of another world
A dreadful knowledge comes
How even space can modulate
And earthly things be done
In the fullness of another world
There is no emptiness
Your master… your master is a monster
Born of a yolkless egg
He has dominion over animals
He walks the world entrail diviner
And when the stars are right
He locks the door behind the door behind the door
The milky way abyss inclines
Seven years of labor for the instruments of time
Your master he is a monster
And gentlemanly too
He'll make for us some new germ
With pieces of the perfect black
The alpha and omega
The double peaks of mars
The maze of his infinity
The buried city
In the stars
Siege and Investiture Of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle At Weisseria
On the terminal point
Of the cul-de-sac
Patients are dying
The horses are dazed
From the glare of stars
The starry wisdom
Owned by the Baron
And he's got the cure
A drug by the name of World Without End
A drug by the name of World Without End
A drug by the name of World Without End
Come and take this
World without end
You'll be inventor
Invention, letter, earth, wind
Rhymed like the real
And real as the rhyme
Imagine this Baron
Inventor of rhymes
Imagine he was me and I was called Frankenstein
Imagine he was me and I was called Frankenstein
Imagine he was me and I was called Frankenstein
Carpe Diem!
Carpe Diem!
Carpe Diem!
He was me, and I was called Frankenstein
He was me, and I was called Frankenstein
He was me, and I was called Frankenstein
(World without end)
Frankenstein
(World without end)
Frankenstein
(World without end) ...
Girl That Love Made Blind
(I thought your eyes, blue)
I thought your eyes, blue
Oh no, they're green she said to me
We danced in time or didn't you know
This dance was
Time (Time) Time (Time)
At the party of astrologers, the Christmas tide was due
On the way to Aldebaran, the dance, the dream, and you
Actuals and counterclaims dancing all the time
Dancing in the corridor and the dance was Time...
I thought your eyes, blue
Oh no, they're green she said to me
We danced in time or didn't you know
This dance was
Time (Time) Time (Time)
At the height of Christmas tide
She found a ghost inside
Give it up or let it ride
She must decide.
Actuals and counterclaims drugged, reborn, redesigned
The castle stands, the girl remains, and if she'll spin, it's packed with eyes
Out there in the corridor, caught there in the mirror maze
From her last and loving glance a waltz, a dance
Whose time, not here, but gone was Time
So put me to the question, but there's no return from this castle of mine
For the powers that be, the girl and her dreams, the girl that love made blind
And that's the last dream we had upon that night
The party of astrologers the Christmas of my life
Christmas, Christmas, the Christmas of my life
Astronomy
The clock strikes twelve and moon drops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman's face
Reasons tend to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
And now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away (have gone away)
Come Susy dear, let's take a walk
Out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you want to know where wind comes from
Well it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Four doors at the four winds bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door to take you in
The other one mirrors it
Hey, hey
In hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Oh the light, that never, never warms
Or the light, that never
Never warms, never warms, never warms
The clock strikes twelve and moon drops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Suzy dear
Find themselves at the four winds bar
It's the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me
Hey, hey
Call me Desdenova, eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog
Fixed and consequent
Hey…
Astronomy, a star
Astronomy, a star
Astronomy, a star
Astronomy, a star
Imaginos
Imaginos approached the sun
In August of New Hampshire
Singing songs nobody knew
And stories left undone
See this fish
Its scales turned green
Under such a sun
Such a sun
A tongue and pale of Texas light
Descended on the border
While the bird called Buzzardo
Rattled the bones he picked the flesh from
See this fish
Its scales turned green
Under such a sun
Such a sun
Secure the sign of moonfleet
Roll your wheel with mine
Sometimes in the night of day
Truth proves hard to find
Actually this Buzzardo
Was Imaginos in disguise
Imaginos approached the sun
In August in New Hampshire
Singing songs nobody knew
And stories left undone
See this fish
Its scales turned green
Under such a sun
Such a sun
I’m buzzardo in Texas
I’m a pinwheel in Vermont
And gorge the bungo pony
I’m a rocker and roller And a spinner too
Below that scene of subterfuge
Which is The last chance
Border
On the border
Last chance
To turn around
On the border
Last exit to Texas
Gil Blanco County
Bad oats In town
The word went out
So my horse and me
We left town
Rode my Palomino down
Rode on down
To Gil Blanco County
It's not far, you know
Have you ever seen the sun rise
In Gil Blanco County
Ever see the pools they got there
It's where the birds go on the Fourth
The Fourth of July
It’s a bird’s way
To celebrate
Got caught in a storm
in Gil Blanco County
It rained so hard said Indian Joe
He knows all there is to know
It could wash the
Face of the earth
and make us clean again
Bad oats In town
The word went out
So my horse and me
We left town
Rode my Palomino down
To Gil Blanco County
Gil Blanco County
To Gil Blanco County
Gil Blanco County
It's not far, you know
Blue Oyster Cult
I am becalmed in virtue
Lost to nothing on a bay of dreams
Warm weather and a holocaust
The tears of God flow as I bleed
Left to die by two good friends
Abandoned me and put to sleep
On a shore where oyster beds
Seem plush as down
And ripe enough for the Luxor dream
Recall the dream of Luxor
How fluids will arrive
As if by call or schedule
Resume through the morning tide
Where entry is by seaweed gate
And plan the plan of dreams
To lose oneself in rebirth
In all that is and all that seems
So ladies, fish and gentlemen
Hear my angled dream
See me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
The oyster boys are swimming now
To claim me back from the dead
Like creatures back from vertigo
They fear to fall but having fell
Will reclaim tries and try again
The oyster boys are swimming now
Hear ‘em chatter on the tide
Of the lost and language lost
Hear ‘em chatter on the tide
We understand, we understand, we understand
And so do I
We understand, we understand
But fright is real and so am I
So ladies, fish and gentlemen
Hear my angled dream
See me in the blue sky bag
And meet me by the sea
The entry to lost vestibule
Opens on the bay
Instant shape of mercury
Lost and then retained
An instant is an eyelash
Caught on the tide
Imaginos! Below this bay
And then besides...
The oyster boys are swimming now
One deal is what we made
Forest keys and whirlwind cold
Green trees too and keys of gold
Even locks that won't explode
When the sky’s become a scroll
Having lost its interest
See that's the deal we made
Just to join the Öyster Cult
The Blue Öyster Cult
Black Telescope
By Silverfish Imperatrix, whose incorrupted eye
Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives
By Salamander Drake and the power that was Undine
Rise to claim Saturn, ring an' sky
By those who see with their eyes closed
You know me by my black telescope
Your green tree mantle
From which these things derive
A lens of quartz and refract scope
That crystal lens whose crystal rope
Once bound me to those doctors and wives
When my vision was oh, so cloudy
And I saw things through two eyes
I am a sailor on the raging depths
And I know a thing or two
Back to the corner, mates, and over the side
Yes, I know a thing or two
By Silverfish Imperatrix, whose incorrupted eye
Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives
By Salamander Drake and the power that was Undine
Rise to claim Saturn, ring an' sky
By those who see with their eyes closed
You know me by my black telescope
I am a sailor on the raging depths
And I know a thing or two
Before my great conversion when the ridge was closed
Before my visit to the workshop of telescopes
By Silverfish Imperatrix, whose incorrupted eye
Sees through the charms of doctors and their wives
By Salamander Drake and the power that was Undine
Rise to claim Saturn, ring an' sky
By those who see with their eyes closed
You know me by my black telescope
By those who see with their eyes closed
You know us by our black telescope
Magna Of Illusion
Cornwall and the harbor
Where witches went mad more than once
Until this day In dreams at least
The lighthouse at lost Christabel Squat and hugely tilts
Upon the strand where granddad's house was built
And having stood the test of time
The starry gale the bloody tide
Grandad's house though gaped with hooks
And filled with books
Could stand no more until a certain prophecy
Once read now stood before the world fulfilled
Now of these books in granddad's keep
Some of them were new but mostly they were old
And the oldest was a scroll
A prophecy that read
When the riddle begins
The story will end
August the first 1892
And in the guise of destiny Grandad quit Cornwall
I'm the captain of a ship he said
My ship is charmed and armed and called Plutonia.
Stories on land, storms at sea 'tween 1892 and '93
When grandad sailed for Mexico
Ships charmed and ordinary
Sailed the glide path to the sun
And when the sun proved false as it always did
Some of them would be lost and some would sail back home
For this sun was no star but a magna of illusion
I mean by that the mirror found
In the chamber of jade grown like a seed
Deep within the ground
The mirror found by one man
So on and off again he sailed the Europe's rim
On and off, off and on until his time had come
Through tears and smiles the last domain
The rods of broken crystal
On and off, and off again until his time had come
Late to the story that had been
But early to a riddle not yet begun
August the first 1893
The charmed ship Plutonia
Sailed like a ray into Cornwall
And none too soon it seems
That night the captain's granddaughter
Would be celebrating her birthday
I've come a long way, said the captain
From lost Christabel this night
Accompanied by my dog familiar
To blast your rafters with my surprise!
Granddaughter, it's a foreign mirror
Taken from the jungle by crime!
Stories on land, storms at sea 'tween 1892 and '93
When grandad sailed for Mexico
When tables collapse
And floors have filled
And the party's over, it's all over
Sea-dogs in rockers will dwell on doom
I've warped the stuff of ground
What seems to be is not
Behind closed eyes
Realize your sight
Mine, granddaughter, proves a surprise
More light than sun
More dark than night then
More a snare than lust
Les Invisibles
Along the world axis
The Empress lay sleeping
To the rhyme of the, of the, of the star clock
Seven sleepers
Seven sages
Seven ladders to the, to the Seventh heaven
Seven stars
Had Ursa Major
Tables turning, turning
And rain maker
While the seven
The visitors
All went, all went a drumming
Dance a Don Pedro
Do the Don Pedro
Games after death
Night dances 'round
Samedi and Petre
In Alchemy
Salute the Four Quarters
Before I leave your eyes
Twinned in the mirror
Les Mesteres come
End me adoration
Before I leave your eyes
World in the mirror
Waters of amnesia come
Do you know, do you know
The court of Eve
Beneath the Polar Mountain
Rose cross and crosser there
Symbols of the swan
Aerial races
In rotation over
The magical casement
Visions of a parallel world
Dance a Don Pedro
Do the Don Pedro
Games after death
Night dances 'round
Samedi and Petre
In Alchemy