Astronomy (song)

The song's lyrics are selected verses from a poem by Sandy Pearlman, the band's producer and mastermind behind their image, called "The Soft Doctrines of Imaginos".

He is raised from the dead and transforms into the female persona[1] of Desdinova, who is also mentioned on the back cover of Secret Treaties and in the song "I Am the One You Warned Me Of" from the Imaginos album.

References are made to celestial objects throughout the song: "the light that never warms" being the moon, "the queenly flux" the constellation Cassiopeia, though both may also serve as epithets or descriptions of Desdinova.

Longtime BÖC fan and author Stephen King recorded a spoken narration for the video, which is as follows: Imaginos (performed by Blue Öyster Cult) – A bedtime story for the children of the damned.

Taking on many ingenious disguises, he places himself at pivotal junctures in history, continually altering its course and testing our ability to respond to the challenge of evil.