Editing Astronomy

{{Infobox song
|title=Astronomy
|image=Secret treaties cover.jpg
|artist=[[Blue Öyster Cult]]
|album=''[[Secret Treaties]]''<br>''[[Imaginos (album)|Imaginos]]''
|released=April 1974
|length=6:28 (''Secret Treaties'')<br>6:47 (''Imaginos'')<br>4:10 (edit, 7" single)<br>5:42 (edit, CD single)<br>6:02 (edit w/ intro, CD single)<br>7:11 (album version w/ intro, CD single)<br>6:24 (Wild Mix, 12" single)<br>7:09 (Wild King Mix, 12" single)
|writers=[[Joe Bouchard]]<br>[[Albert Bouchard]]<br>[[Sandy Pearlman]]
|lead-vocals=[[Eric Bloom]] (''Secret Treaties'')<br>[[Buck Dharma|Donald Roeser]] (''Imaginos'')}}
'''Astronomy''' is the eighth and final track from [[Blue Öyster Cult]]'s third studio album, ''[[Secret Treaties]]'', as well as the sixth track from their eleventh studio album, ''[[Imaginos (album)|Imaginos]]''.

== Lyrics ==
<poem style="border: 1px solid #8eb6d4; background-color: #0b0b14; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 3em; border-radius: 10px; width: fit-content">
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 sand's become a crust
Most of you have gone away

Come Suzy 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's 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 Suzy 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</poem>

== Trivia ==
* Two lines in the lyrics were changed for the ''Imaginos'' version, as according to Albert Bouchard, Eric Bloom originally sang the part incorrectly and it was never corrected before the album's release.
** "Four winds at the four winds bar / Two doors bought and windows barred" was changed to "Four doors at the four winds bar / Two doors locked and windows barred."
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