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Could I sing a song without any music? Acapella?
Oo there’s somebody sleeping in my bed and she’s more than a little bare
I think she’s more than ready to be my little teddy
At least that’s what her body language said
Oh the promise in her eyes means this time there’ll be no lies
There’s many a true word said in bed
Whoa, there’s somebody sleeping in my bed
Her golden locks are flowing everywhere
From her hot breath it’s no guess she intends to acquiesce
Her unspoken word could get through to the dead
When she articulates she joins the literary greats
There’s many a true word said in bed
Booo woo woo woo.
Conversation, confabulation, repartee with God's creation
"Heigh-Ho" silver tongue me with your discourse
As a raconteur said after dinner, spinning words makes me a winner
For God’s sakes there's no substitute for intercourse
Oh there’s somebody sleeping in my bed, she went and skipped the porridge and the chair
Her careful over stating gets me ejaculating sentences I’ve only ever read
So let’s drown in purple prose because everybody knows
There’s many a true word said in bed
[ scat ]
[applause]
When you write, do you write lyrics first?
Lyrics with a tune in my head…
Could you see yourself not working?
Yes, I love doing nothing.
I really do love doing nothing.
But even yesterday I was out at the barn and I’d had a drink too many
and my son invited me and I couldn’t drive and I sat there and I started writing lyrics.
You can’t really help yourself really. It’s a bit like an addiction in a way.
When you see someone walking down the street and they’re mumbling to themselves it’s probably a lyricist,
they’re probably doing a rhyme in their head. [laughs]
What’s it like having a statue?
Having a… Being a bronze ***?
It's humbling
It’s absolutely wonderful isn’t it?
It is absolutely extraordinary. And it’s so beautiful.
Weta workshop have done such a wonderful job.
Hamilton should be very pleased just to have that piece of bronze.
It is beautifully rendered, artistically put together.
Imagine if it hadn’t been.
I’d still have to have had the smile on my face, wouldn’t I and go “Oh, isn’t it marvelous”
you know, but when they took the top off that and you go, “Oh, God that’s fantastic!”
It is beautiful.
I don’t deserve it.
I really don’t truly deserve it. I’ve done nothing in my life to deserve that
but, I'm very grateful.
I don’t think anyone here agrees with that.
[ applause ]
We talked about fame, if you like what you do, and you like doing things in public, and you like performing,
I can’t see you going off and growing tomatoes and playing bowls…
No, I can’t see that either really. Not the tomatoes bit.
Bowls?
[ laughs ]
No, I can’t do anything like that.
I love reading, I devour books…
I can read a book in a day, a day and a half.
And I love crime thrillers. I'm absolutely addicted to them.
I really honestly never get bored, I love being on my own.
I love getting up in the morning on my own and padding down to get a cup of tea.
When you’re on your own you don’t have to put any clothes on to
go down and make a cup of tea, do you know what I mean.
And you have that freedom of being... you know. it's wonderful.
I know a lot of people need people in their lives, and they need to share, I really don’t need that.
I’m very happy on my own.
And I draw a little, and I sit down with my guitar and I write a...
I’m gonna sing another song actually…
The last song I wrote.
I see you fit in with my friends you’re both so clever
So I think I’ll split and leave you both together
You see I feel as if my minds been in a train wreck
So if you don’t mind I think I’ll take a raincheck
Woh yeah yeah yeah
Oh my my my my my my my.
Oh woh woh woh woh woh woh
How smitten am I.
Once bitten, yeah.
Once bitten, yeah yeah yeah.
Once bitten, yeah yeah yeah.
Ooo, twice shy.
My scheme means leaving for those parts where bar flies nestle
There are demons in the dark I have to wrestle
I’d take a *** on the rocks and leave the bottle
I’ve got a problem that would fox an Aristotle
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my, my.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Here’s spit in your eye
Once bitten, yeah.
Once bitten, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Once bitten, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wooo, twice shy.
Once bitten yeah yeah yeah…
Once bitten, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[ scat ]
Twice shy
[ applause ]
Listen, before we finish. What about here?
I mean, this is still... you spend some time here, some time in the UK.
New Zealand is my home.
Your home is where you’re heart is.
Even though I left, I wasn’t born in New Zealand, we immigrated, we came to Hamilton in fifty two,
and I went back to England in nineteen sixty four,
but those were the most important years, I was prepubescent, pubescent, adolescent,
and grew into a young man of twenty two years when I left,
my heart was here.
The greatest card that I got, when I held that, that was due to NZ.
I got back to England to a class ridden society,
and coming from a completely classless society was the greatest card you could ever hold in your hand,
because I just wasn’t intimidated, I just went wherever I wanted to go,
I spoke to whomever I wanted to speak to,
and because I had that freedom I was welcome anywhere,
and I sat at tables with the aristocratic, and I sat at tables with the dustmen,
I was a dustman for a while,
when I was a dustman in the evening time I was in Mick Jagger’s flat in nineteen sixty five.
I was able to go anywhere because of this wonderful classless society.
No body in New Zealand is your social superior,
and I *** love it. [ applause ]
Richard O’Brien, thanks for your music,
thanks for your honesty,
and thanks for being here.
And thank you Mark for adding some gravitas to the evening.
[ laughter ]
He’s the gravitas, I’m the glamour.
And thank you all very much as well.
Thank you.
[ applause ]
Good night.
[ applause ]