She's My Best Friend

oh wow i cant believe yet again im the first to make a comment again! isnt this song just so great its really sweet i sang it to my best friend before. And she laughed at me.

1 comment?!? this is my favorite VU song. :(

If you want to see me Sorry, but I 'm not around If you want to be me Turn around, I'm by the window where the light is

quintessential VU.

Well this song is about Lou Reed's best friend at the time; heroin. A lot of the lyrics kind of give it away, like:

• "certainly not the average girl" (dope reference)
• "She' my best friend, better than a dog or cat" (because heroin is better than a dog, maybe not a cat)
• "Oh, it hurts to be that way" (he's coming down of his run)
• "Oh, it hurts to know that you're that kinda fellow" (he's a junkie),
• "Here's to Newspaper Joe, dropped his teeth on the floor Caught his hand in the door Guess that's the way the news goes" (another person overdosed)
• "Turn around, I'm by the window where the light is" (he's shooting up)

you get the rest...

and song is so catchy

The "girl" is obviously heroin. He seems to be talking about a grisly atrocity that happens at some point, since somebody's feet get cut off and are rolling around in the street, looking like jelly rolls. Ah, the mean streets of New York. At another point, he's telling junkie girls to look up and see him at the window. She made Jam when she came? She must have been sick then. A strangely cheerful, sinister, and chilling song about being a junkie in the big city, with little flashes and vignettes you might glimpse in its seedy and hidden corners. It hurts to be that kinda fella, but he is anyways. And his only woman is a white horse.