[Intro]
Finally one good enough to get me in the
In the Guardian's top hundred songwriters of all time
Uh, I’m not bitter about that, you know, at all
That kinda thing
But one time I came home from making a record, I forgot which one it was
But I was proud of it, you know, it happened so infrequently
And I was gonna watch television, and I watched the Making Of—
MTV used to have these shows, the Making Of this record and that record
And they had it, and I was watching, so I felt I could take it
So I watched Stevie Wonder, it was like Songs in the Key of Life
And I'm watching him
And he says, "Well, this is what I did"
And he's got his synthesizer out and making that sound he always made
And he put one layer down
And then he put another layer down and it was like watching Bach
And, you know, by the time I’d watched that I wanted to shoot myself
You know, I thought—
And that's what, that's what everyone's been telling me about
"You're so great"
So I look in the paper and it's like
"Leonard Cohen: the greatest songwriter of all time"
There's lyrics by Dylan in the paper, which, so it's—
Which are good, by the way
I forgot how good he was sixty years ago
Uh, no, I’m just kidding
My God, it’s so easy to talk badly about other people
Why do we do it?
Does it make me any bigger?
This is a song about, uh, my mother's town
Which is incapable of fixing itself, and someone should have fixed it