Madame Blavatsky Lyrics

In the modern age it's all the rage

Dabbling with forces Mysterious and motley

And whether it's yoga or tarot or astral travel it all goes

Back to a woman named Madame Blavatsky

In her own way she was some say

As revolution'ry as Lenin or Trotsky

No one ever caused such tumult in the world of the occult

As the mysterious Madame Blavatsky

Theater lights would dim at night

The orchestra would play allegro vivace

"Gentlemen ladies boys and girls,

Your guide into the spirit world

The famed Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

And she could speak of great mahatmas and divines

And make a single snow white rose appear

With just her mind, her mind, her mind, her mind, her mind.

There was alarm on a Vermont farm

Where phantom forms attracted press and paparazzi

No one could seem to quell the haunts

Til' who showed up at the seance?

It was none other than Madame Blavatsky

A man of law had just one flaw

Collecting esoteric trinkets and tchotchkes

He had a wife and children four but their pleadings he ignored

For Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Now the HPB had oft decreed

That she'd unite science religion and philosophy

Writing six weeks without fail she produced a book, Isis Unveiled

Now everyone was reading Madame Blavatsky

From academics to the military brass

You've never seen such a commotion

In the great and goodly of the urban middle class

But even gods resort to frauds

When people say "I've seen it all and nothing shocks me"

When a society's report made her the scandal of New York

Then there was trouble for Madame Blavatsky

So she grew frail her body ailed

She was afflicted with tumors and dropsy

A ship departed New Year's Eve but many left behind believed

There had been something about Madame Blavatsky

Yes there was something about Madame Blavatsky