Reed fancied...
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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."
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!'
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!'