Baron Von Petal falls in love with a lady who is not royal and decides to rebel against convention by making her his spouse. Many years later they build a leather rowing device to travel to the heaven, collect the stars, moon and sun in jam jars and make them into a necklace. However instead of wearing the necklace, she locks it in her cabinet and becomes "Baron Von Petal's Queen Of Universal Dark". Take that !
Tabitha Wild played the role of The Queen, joining me in an extensive photoshoot with Krystina Fitzgerrald Morris and can be seen in the track art.
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lyrics
BARON VON PETAL AND HIS QUEEN OF UNIVERSAL DARK
The Baron was in his launching tower, stoking up the grate.
His mistress pulls the handles tight and opens up the gates.
She straps him to his leather chair and twiddles his moustache,
Then clenches her stilettoed boots to make the pistons thrash.
The town’s folk hear a mighty boom; with open mouths they wait,
For the rumbling earth once more to sleep, and the smoke to dissipate.
The castle tower in ruins lies, all broken teeth and dust;
As the mistress still unruffled winks, and readjusts her bust.
Above the clouds a shadow looms; a darkened bird of doom;
A cataclysmic pirate stealing pieces from the moon.
The Baron with a magpie’s lust is cleaning up the stars;
From Mars’s rust to Ganymed all trapped in glowing jars.
And when the sky is empty, all but for the burning sun;
He knows that ball of fire will sleep, and in the night be won.
Landing now upon the earth, he juggles jars of light.
And fashions out a necklace of starlight burning bright.
Then kneeling so, before his muse who’s stirrups spin a squeal,
He offers up the necklace as completion of the deal.
But turning from her prostrate sire with necklace in her hand
She locks it in her cabinet ridding light from all the land
For though the fire of starlight can melt an icy heart
She is Baron Petal’s sweetest queen… Baron Petal’s sweetest queen…
Baron Petal’s sweetest queen of universal DARK !
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