It was really not so cute to play without a parachute As he stood upon the ledge Looking out, he thought he saw a brook And he hollered, ‘Look, there are the bells!’ And he sang out, ‘Here come the bells! Here come the bells! Here come the bells! Here come the bells! Reed fancied dictionary language like “capricious” and “harridan,” but he found special magic in the word “bells,” sounding from above, “up in the sky,” as he sang on the Velvets’ “What Goes On.” A personal favorite was the title track from a 1979 album, “The Bells.” Over a foggy swirl of synthesizers and horns, suggesting a haunted house on skid row, Reed improvised a fairy tale about a stage actor who leaves work late at night and takes in a chiming, urban “Milky Way.”
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:40:37 +0000
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