workshop of the telescopes

by silverfish imperetrix

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 and sky

by those who see with their eyes close

they know me by my black telescope

your green tree mantle from which these things derive

a lens of quartz and refract spoke 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 imperetrix

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 and sky

by those who see with their eyes closed

you'll know me by my black telescope

before my great conversion when the ridge was closed

before my visit to the workshop of telescopes

by silverfish imperetrix

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 and sky

by those who see with their eyes closed

you'll know me by my black telescope