At the end of Einstein on the Beach, the bus driver tells a “soothing story” about two lovers sitting on a park bench &c.
This one at 4:05:
Does anybody know anything about it, like who wrote those lyrics, and what, if anything, it refers to?
Well, these lyrics were written by Mr. Samuel M. Johnson (Two lovers). Different parts were written by different people, Christopher Knowles and Lucinda Childs wrote also different parts of the opera
I found this link, which states that “Wilson rarely writes his own texts; the first drafts of his shows are drawings, not words. He prefers to take other people’s texts and rearrange them in a way that he thinks will interact effectively with the space,” and that Robert Wilson “invited Samuel M. Johnson, a seventy-seven-year-old black performer, to write two texts, including the final speech about love.”
As for what it “really” means, even the reviewer could not resist speculating in his article.
Well, that wasn’t what I expected, which was a story about an eggman falling off the wall.