There comes a day

I'm visiting a backwoods town beside a lake

Hear tell of something rare

The locals say

That there's a lady all in blue who has been known to take

The air

But she appears out of nowhere

Then fades away

There's more to hear

It seems there are conditions on her manifest

And rules that have divined

When she'll appear

And many men who have been drawn here as if on a quest

To find her

But they learn they cannot bind her

And she's gone

Before the bead of dawn

(CHORUS:)

Once in a blue moon

That's when she's seen abroad

And who'd have thought

A chance would bring me there when it was beaming bright?

Once in a blue moon

My heart's been stolen from me

It's become my

Dearest wish to turn the moon blue every night

That eve I stand

And watch the sky with wonder at the moon aglow

In hues of azure fair

Upon the land

A mist of melting violets glistens like fresh-fallen snow

I stare

And just a moment later there

Appears her hand

She's dressed in blue

And turns her eyes upon me like a thing possessed

The air is still, and then

She says, "For you

I'd tarry here, but be it known, fair man, I cannot rest

For when

The moon has lost its hue again

And turned to grey

Then no more can I stay"

(CHORUS:)

Once in a blue moon

She walks beside the waters

And it's not as

Strange as you might think to fall at love's first sight

Once in a blue moon

But now look what I'm brought to

I have got to

Find a way to turn the moon blue every night

I guess I ought to mention here

I am a starship's engineer

And thorny problems never leave me dazed

With just a bit of concentration

And inventive adaptation

I can solve this lunar puzzle, facing it unfazed

So by the lake

An Einstein-Rosen bridge I learn to generate

Within a spheric field

And then I make

An artificial zone of gravity to compensate

And shield

And time-dilation is the yield

For twice as slow

The hours within will go

(CHORUS:)

Once in a blue moon

Though it was unexpected

I've bisected

Every wavelength there within that hastened light

Once in a blue moon

She comes to me thereafter

And our laughter

Echoes 'neath the moon blue-shifted every night