| The Velvet Underground – Here She Comes Now Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this song and the song directly after "i heard her call my name" are tied together. I had a crazy epiphany about this song while i was "getting my head together, or riding the snake to the lake" (you know what i mean). Anyhoo, i interpreted that "here she comes now" is about a dream, or a dream like drug induced state, perhaps coming down off the cocaine after being spun for days which the album is believed to be about [cocaine] for some (i'm not sure, either way works for me). He's dreaming about waiting in anticipation for and then seeing the dead girl that the following song is about. I guess partially why I think that, is because it's such a calm slow, dreamlike, tranquil, relaxing song. Then suddenly the song ends and we hear the next song "i heard her call my name" which is very quick, rushed, fast paced, and chaotic. To me it seems that that song is about him awakening abruptly and feeling disturbed. You know how it can be in those few instances upon awakening suddenly from a weird dream trying to distinguish it from reality, your heart pounds, you're trying to wrap your head around what the heck it could mean, your shaken up and all perplexed. I think he dreamed about this girl and basically it mind f***ed him to the point where he believed it to be real or at least left him very confused: "I know that she's long, dead and gone, still it ain't the same.When I wake up in the morning, mama,I heard her call my name.I know she's dead and long, gone. Still, I heard her call my name. And then my mind split open." it works for both a naturally occurring nightmare if you will, or for a drug induced hallucination ending in some sort of revelation that made the good ol' boy go a little nuts. Absolutely beautiful and amazing how these two songs are put together. I heard the nirvana version of "here she comes now" before velvet underground and always really liked the nirvana version but now that i interpret the original song as such, the nirvana version doesn't make a whole lotta sense, although it's still very good. I just love these songs. | |
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