Celestial The Queen

The song is clearly about a drag queen nicknamed Celeste or Celestial, the "leather and chains" are themes from BDSM and gay culture in general. The shades mentioned are heavy makeup, the narrator is "out of place", "out of his mind", he feels like that's "no place for one of his kind" and he rationalizes that "it meant nothing" to deal with his own prejudices over his romantic encounter with this "queen" that "came from the dark" and was "born into the night", since during the day Celeste was probably just a man living a "normal" life.

You know, here I had thought at first this song was about a queen honey bee. Born into the night, the darkness of the hive, she spreaded her wings, and then she was gone.

What you say about this being a drag queen makes a ton of sense though!

May be a tough sell to play this at our Christmasy December bee club meeting.

I translate this song the lyrics literally describe my head. Of course sang to a woman. see my mixtape

Written in an age before "Political Correctness" censorship...this song is obviously about a transvestite. The British slang for "bent" is homosexual. That said, the title could read Celestial--A Queen. To further illuminate--the reference to "all leather and chains" is yet another homosexual inference. And finally, when this song was written, men in drag were funny looking, hence the "laughter" that "she" inspires. Could be the singer of the song is smitten by Celestial, or had a relationship with "her," and now agonizes over it--but in the end, he says it "meant nothing." Like most of BOC songs, they are shrouded in an element of mystery.