Lyric discussion by jhammond5611 

Cover art for Blue Oyster Cult lyrics by Blue Öyster Cult

The 4th song in the chronological order of the Imaginos saga. This is when Imaginos is left to die on a beach and the Blue Oyster Cult, basically aliens but also somehow related to the gods worshipped by Native American civilizations before Cortez, offer to save his life if he will become their minion on earth. Imaginos has no choice but to agree and it is because of this that he carries out his negative influences on the history of mankind.

I still wonder if there isn't a hint of Lewis Carroll's Walrus and the Carpenter referenced. "Left to die by to good friends." The Walrus and the Carpenter befriended the oysters and in what to the oysters would be a holocaust, ate them.