“I am fire,” he replied. “I love your solitude, I love your pride.”

“Myself I long for love and light. But must it come so cruel, so bright?”

Song Notes from Jamie O’Reilly
Featuring the stories and audio recordings of songs Michael and others wrote for me and/or performed with me.

II’ve always let myself succumb co the erotic mysticism of this song, and it holds up 20 years later.

Listen here.

Michael Smith and Jamie O’Reilly
breathe fire into Leonard Cohen’s mystical masterpiece.
Live on WFMT Radio’s Folkstage.
From their production of Scarlet Confessions.
With Anne Hills and Paul Amandes on harmony vocals.

Paul Amandes performs a searing excerpt
from George Bernard Shaw’s play St. Joan.

Sainte Jeanne d’Arc painting by Paul -Antoine de la Boulaye, 1909