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I think I finally solved the riddle of Here She Comes Now*. Maybe my favourite VU song/recording.

'Ohh, it looks so good, ohh, she's made out of wood. Just look and see....'

The narrator is waiting for a (sailing) boat.


*at least in my mind

That has always been my interpretation also . . .

Unless the song is supposed to be a sexual connotation!

Is this one of the songs in Lou's first book of lyrics? If so is it one of the ones he comments on a the bottom of the page?

i always thought it was about a crazy guy having sex with a dead chick.

or a tree that he thought was a chick?

i dunno.

I think it's about a sexually unresponsive woman. Hence "oh, if she ever comes now now...", and also being "made out of wood" - ie, rather stiff and static.

Mark wrote:I think it's about a sexually unresponsive woman. Hence "oh, if she ever comes now now...", and also being "made out of wood" - ie, rather stiff and static.

I always thought so too but the first line always nagged me:

Ohh, it looks so good...

What can be both an it and a she and wooden? A boat.

Yeah, Mark hit on what I always thought it was about.

PQ Leer wrote:That has always been my interpretation also . . .

glad I'm not the only one...


...of course good lyrics can often be read in more than one way.

There is a vernacular in BDSM circles regarding wooden women.

I find and easy relation "on BDSM work",betwen the Warhol Vinyl film and WL&WH albun,the whole concept of both are the shocking borders about "sex&drugs".
Meanwhile on Vinyl film the submision role is taken by "Gerald,a male",and on this song the "wooden woman" this role is featured by a female.....might be a relecture on this song about the subject by Lou...it would be interesting to know when the song was written .

..... just a CRAZY theory !!!