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