Blue Öyster Cult Songs - Astronomy Lyrics

Blue Öyster Cult - Astronomy

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Album: Secret Treaties
Released: 1974

Astronomy Lyrics

Clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman?s face
His reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
And now the sands become a crust
Most of you have gone away

Come Susie dear, let?s take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you?ll soon be married
And you?ll want to know where winds come from
Well it?s never said at all
On that map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Four winds at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors bought and windows barred
One door to let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hellish glare and inference
The other one?s a duplicate
The Queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Yes, the light that never, never warms
Or the light that never
Never warms
Never warms
Never warms

The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Susie dear
Would 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! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Call me Desdinova
Eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don?t forget my dog
Fixed and consequent

Astronomy
A star
Astronomy
A star
Astronomy
A star
Astronomy
A star

Writer/s: PEARLMAN, SAMUEL / BOUCHARD, ALBERT / BOUCHARD, JOSEPH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Astronomy

Sometimes rumored to be about a girl's first lesbian encounter, the lyrics to "Astronomy" were written by the group's producer - the former music journalist Sandy Pearlman. Secret Treaties began as a concept album based on the character Desdanova, who appears in "Astronomy." You can spend a lot of time with headphones on trying to figure out what's going on in this song, but Pearlman explained it when he spoke with NME in 1975. We should point out that the British press loved the Secret Treaties album, giving it great reviews, but attempts to interview the band during this period were dominated by Pearlman, who did most of the talking, often to the bewilderment of the journalists. Anyway, here's what he said about the song: "It's New Year's Eve and Desdanova walks into the Four Winds Bar (which was a real place - an actual joint on Atlantic Beach). He plays this game with two girls which has to be completed in the six hours from midnight to dawn 'cause he can't stand the light. It's so sort of... corrosive. There's a parallel with the rose which is similarly over-fulfilled, a symbol of over-ripeness and decadence. The dog is Susy's familiar and the carrier of starry wisdom from the actual dogstar. Lovecraft had this term 'starry wisdom cult' which was so apt I had to use it."

Blue Öyster Cult recorded a new version of "Astronomy" for their 1988 concept album Imaginos, which was based on Pearlman's poem "The Soft Doctrines Of Imaginos." The concept is that Imaginos is born in 1804 and given superhuman powers. He can take on various identities and time travel, and he plays a part in events leading up to World War I where the story ends.

The 1988 version of the song contains a spoken intro by the author Stephen King, who explains the Imaginos concept. This version was made into a video as well.

Metallica recorded the song for their 1998 album Garage Inc.