And also
Lou Reed's 1979 record, named after the
above poem and the musical piece "Lonely Woman" by Ornette Coleman:
Lou stepped up the microphone and recited the whole "Bells" lyric in one take, pouring the words into the wash of the music. To this day he still wonders at their meaning, but the experience was so sublime that "The Bells" remains one of Lou's favorite tracks.
From "Transformer: The Lou Reed Story", by Victor Bockris