Here She Comes Now

Don't know what Gforce38 is talking about, but I'm pretty sure this is about getting a girl to come. Trust me, if the Velvets did anything, they told it like it was. He has an incredibly voice in this, but i think that of all his songs! Rock on, Lou! Hope she came!

Lou wasn't gonna write "c-u-m"! come on, of course he was going to write "come". it's such a sweet song, and it's about an un-sweet subject as most VU songs are. it's about getting a girl to "come". "she's made out of wood---" yep, it's about a girl who can't "come". Vash, surely you could write much better songs than Lou Reed. few people alive can.

I always heard it as "now, a shiver comes now now/a shiver comes now now" etc.

I guess it works both ways.

I'm lame. I never got a sexual overtone from this. Either I'm wrong, or not, probably am, but I always though it was just about being excited about seeing a girl you like coming towards you. What they did when she actually arrived...well, those events are narrated in most of the rest of VU's songs, hahah.

I hear it as, "now, if she ever comes down now"

Works either way

It's about the irrelvency of anybody else's reaction, the can come or they can go. It's rarely a judgement on you or Lou. But it's mystifying how important they feel it it when they come. Earlier someone pointed to the link to I heard her call my name

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.

I think it is something to do with a guy trying to get his grilfriend to come, that is the only thing i can think of good somg but, the Nirvana version is worth a listen as well.

Do I sense some sarcasm SisterRay?

haha sisterray, you should write a song about THAT!