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I Heard Her Call My Name Lyrics
Here she comes now, now
Gone, gone, gone
Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready
Got my eyes wide open
Ever since I was on cripples Monday
Got my eyeballs on my knees, Aww my baby walkin'
After hours with Mad Mary Williams
Said she never understood a word from me, because...
I know that she cares about me
I heard her call my name
And I know that she's long dead and gone
Still she ain't the same
When I wake up in the morning mama
I heard her call my name
I know that she's gone, gone, gone
I heard her call my name
And then my mind split open...
Gone, gone, gone
Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready
Got my eyes wide open
Got my eyeballs on my knees, Aww my baby walkin'
After hours with Mad Mary Williams
Said she never understood a word from me, because...
I heard her call my name
And I know that she's long dead and gone
Still she ain't the same
When I wake up in the morning mama
I heard her call my name
I know that she's gone, gone, gone
I heard her call my name
And then my mind split open...
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"And my mind split open..." Then it really does split the listener's mind open with the craziest solo ever recorded. Lou does not get enough credit as a guitarist.
Ok, the girl has come. She's also gone. And he's fucked up, one might say crippled, by her departure. And he is haunted by her voice calling out his name and we hear the extraordinary sound of his crazed mind split open. And we also realise that if the volume was turned down a bit and the craziness restrained and the song very slightly rewritten, a very happy commercial doo-wop tune emerges- i know that she cares about me, i heard her call my name.. heard her call my name. Wonderfull!!
Ok, the girl has come. She's also gone. And he's fucked up, one might say crippled, by her departure. And he is haunted by her voice calling out his name and we hear the extraordinary sound of his crazed mind split open. And we also realise that if the volume was turned down a bit and the craziness restrained and the song very slightly rewritten, a very happy commercial doo-wop tune emerges- i know that she cares about me, i heard her call my name.. heard her call my name. Wonderfull!!
this is on the White Light/White heat album (but you knew that already), and comes in immediatly after 'here she comes now', which is really slow and chilled out. in that song it sounds like he's trying to get a gurl to come, and in this one it suddenly screams: here she comes now now gone gone gone ready ready ready ready ready got my eyes wide open --these lines sounds like she finally has come. don't know about the rest of the song, but you know... if she's calling his name...
the music in the opening reminds me of some parts of Sister Ray. Then again, this whole album reminds me of itself.
I believe it's about necrophilia in a way.
@Gwyll of course it is
@Gwyll of course it is
Right. The song refers to a girl that a singer used to know when she was alive...But somehow managed to call him after her death.
@kaplan may be Valerie Solanis
@kaplan may be Valerie Solanis
ya, the free improv so is a blistering mind fuck. lou reed was a big fan of cecil taylor and ornette coleman in his early days. if this were any other band i wouldnt think it was about necrophilia. he also uses the dirtiest, grimiest distortion on his guitar, and its just fuckin awesome.
@scottjefferies yes. it. is
@scottjefferies yes. it. is
Auditory hallucinations?
@Cynothoglys No, thanks.
@Cynothoglys No, thanks.
Perfect follow up to Here She Comes Now.
If you get the 45th anniversary addition of this album, it comes with some bonus tracks and I was happy to find that you can get the original recording before the lead was amped up. You can actually hear the bass and rhythm guitar much better next to the lead.
Sometimes wonder if Morrissey\'s OUIJA BOARD is a strange allusion to this piece