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  • (electronic music)

  • (audio tape rewinding)

  • (slow pensive music)

  • I don't feel any compulsion

  • just to stand under the spotlight

  • night after night or year after year

  • unless I have something to say

  • or something new to disclose about my own work.

  • (slow pensive music)

  • - Would you read Two Slept Together?

  • Okay, I don't have it here, do you have it?

  • Two went to sleep

  • almost every night.

  • One dreamed of mud,

  • one dreamed of Asia,

  • visiting a zeppelin,

  • visiting Nijinsky.

  • Two went to sleep.

  • One dreamed of ribs,

  • one dreamed of senators.

  • Two went to sleep,

  • two travelers.

  • The long marriage

  • in the dark.

  • The sleep was old,

  • the travelers were old.

  • One dreamed of oranges,

  • one dreamed of Carthage.

  • Two friends asleep,

  • years locked in travel.

  • Good night my darling.

  • As the dreams waved goodbye,

  • one traveled lightly,

  • one walked through water,

  • visiting a chess game,

  • visiting a booth,

  • always returning,

  • to wait out the day.

  • One carried matches,

  • one climbed a beehive,

  • one sold an earphone,

  • one shot a German.

  • Two went to sleep,

  • every sleep went together,

  • wandering away

  • from an operating table.

  • One dreamed of grass,

  • one dreamed of spokes,

  • one bargained nicely,

  • one was a snowman,

  • one counted medicine,

  • one tasted pencils,

  • one was a child,

  • one was a traitor,

  • visiting heavy industry,

  • visiting the family.

  • Two went to sleep,

  • none could foretell

  • one went with baskets,

  • one took a ledger,

  • one night happy,

  • one night in terror.

  • Love could not bind them.

  • Fear could not either.

  • They went unconnected,

  • they never knew where,

  • always returning,

  • to wait out the day.

  • Parting with kissing,

  • parting with yawns,

  • visiting Death till

  • they wore out their welcome.

  • Visiting Death till

  • the right disguise worked.

  • (slow soft guitar music)

  • - [Kathleen] Would you relate the story

  • of the Sisters of Mercy again?

  • All the sisters of mercy

  • I was in Edmonton doing a tour by myself.

  • Canada, I guess this was around '67.

  • And I was walking along one of the main streets of Edmonton.

  • It was bitter cold.

  • And I knew no one.

  • And I passed these two girls in a doorway.

  • And they invited me to stand in the doorway with them.

  • Of course I did.

  • Sometime later we found ourselves in my little hotel room

  • in Edmonton, and the three of us

  • were going to go to sleep together.

  • Of course I had all kinds of erotic fantasies

  • of what the evening might bring.

  • And we went to bed together

  • and I think we all jammed into

  • this one small couch in this little hotel.

  • And it became clear that

  • that wasn't the purpose of the evening at all.

  • And at one point in the night

  • I found myself unable to sleep.

  • I got up, and by the moonlight, it was very, very bright.

  • The moon was being reflected off the snow.

  • I wrote that poem by the ice-reflected moonlight,

  • while these women were sleeping.

  • And it was one of the few songs I ever wrote

  • from top to bottom without a line of revision.

  • The words flowed and the melody flowed

  • and by the time they woke up the next morning, it was dawn,

  • I had this completed song to sing for them.

  • (soft rock music)

  • I'm always pleased when somebody sings a song of mine.

  • In fact I never get over that initial rush of happiness

  • when someone says they're going to sing a song of mine.

  • I always like it.

  • - [Kathleen] Do you think they all do a good job of it?

  • Is there any particularly liked?

  • - [Leonard] I like the way Judy Collins

  • does some of my songs.

  • I can't honestly say that I've heard my songs

  • done in the way that totally satisfies me.

  • I think with the exception of

  • perhaps "Suzanne" by Judy Collins.

  • But I don't know if there's really versions of the songs

  • that strike my the way that I would like to be struck.

  • Not that my own are that way either.

  • - [Kathleen] It's okay?

  • - [Leonard] It's okay.

  • You know, because a song enters the world

  • and it gets changed like everything else.

  • It's okay as long as there are more authentic versions.

  • A good song, I think, will get changed.

  • (soft rock music)

  • (tape rewinding)

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