The Alchemist

Stranger than the comet

As it streaks across the sky

Stranger than the truth I know

Before my open eyes

I have dealt in mysteries

And trickery of light to entertain

Looked into the abyss

Called it by it's name

I have plundered time itself

Put the world inside it

And the mysteries day and night divide it

A plague of wonders on your knees beside me

Know the secrets

You shall not deride us

My dreams of empire for my frozen queen will come to pass

Know me the Magus I am

Doctor Dee and this is my house

I am the master of the tides

I shame the mirror in my sight

What random music of the spheres across the years

Know this I will return to this land

Rebuild where the ruins did stand

Chain of the demons set free

Strange Alchemy

Gather round the aimless and the feckless and the lame

Hear the master summon up

The spirits by their names

I curse you Edward Kelly you

Betrayal for eternity is damned

Know you speak with demons you cannot command

Even as I look into the glass

Then I was blinded

Burning the Mortlake shore

My house my books inside it

You have taken up my wife

And lain beside her

Now the black rain on my house

The timbers burning

My dreams of empire for my frozen queen will come to pass

Know me the Magus I am

Doctor Dee and this was my house

I was the keeper of the books

I had the knowledge of the scrolls

But now through ignorance and fear

I cast a shadow through the years

Know this I will return to this land

Rebuild where the ruins did stand

Chain of the demons set free

Strange Alchemy

Know this I will return to this land

Rebuild where the ruins did stand

Restore the knowledge of memory

Strange Alchemy