Whats the story behind Sisters of Mercy?
DC McGlothlen (danm@wolfe.net): Allow me to quote LC (and I don’t pretend that he speaks here to what the song means — only where it came from… which is instructive): From SongTalk, Vol. 3, Issue 2: “That’s the only song I wrote in one sitting. The melody I had worked on for some time. I didn’t really know what the song was. I remember that my mother had liked it. Then I was in Edmonton, which is one of our largest northern cities, and there was a snowstorm and I found myself in a vestibule with two young hitch-hiking women who didn’t have a place to stay. I invited them back to my little hotel room and there was a big double bed and they went to sleep in it immediately. They were exhausted by the storm and the cold. And I sat in this stuffed chair inside the window beside the Saskatchewan River. And while they were sleeping I wrote the lyrics. And that never happened to me before. And I think it must be wonderful to be that kind of writer. It must be _wonderful_. Because I just wro