The Velvet Forum

I don't know how much this forum has delved into the meanings of songs before, but I think it's appropriate to wonder what messages were attempting to get through some very abstract lyrics, especially when you love particular songs but are lost as to their meanings... I'm curious what interpretations people have come up with for the more ambiguous lyrics. For example: Here She Comes Now, (is it about anything at all??) Black Angels Death Song, Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams, What Goes On, etc.

I always thought "here she comes now" was maybe about the same frigid girl as in "stephanie says" , you know "she's made out of wood" and "its so cold in alaska" , or perhaps its Lou singing about Nico who sounded so cold on the classic songs, maybe she also was in bed , in contradiction to her reputation as a maneater?

People said that Nico just gave off the aura of being a slut, but really not everyone had her.

I thought Her She Comes Now was another drug song, just more abstract.
Black Angel's Death Song was just a song Lou wrote to connect the words in an appealing manner and isn't about anything, literally.
What Goes On was about thinking too hard into things and just letting what happens happens since it'll work out all right in the end. I remember reading that the self titled album was about that, being insecure and gradually growing into content.

Here's a distrubing interpretation:
Forget where I read it, but someone had the opinion that "Here She Comes Now" might be about necrophilia. (Made out of wood = rigor mortis, can't make her come because she's dead). It's a really ugly thought, but who knows, bizarre death situations do play a fairly large part in the "White Light/White Heat" fabric (Sister Ray, The Gift, I Heard Her Call My Name, possibly Lady Godiva).

I'd like to think not, though, it's probably my favorite Velvet ballad.

To tell the truth, I thought Here She Comes Now was a drug song too, but then I wondered if perhaps I was just thinking too much about drugs. I do get the sense he's referring to a rush seeping into him slowly.

Oh, one more idea...

I don't have a clue if Lou drank absinthe, but "made out of wood" could refer to it... and absinthe was often romanticized as the "green fairy", which would make it a 'she'.

I don't see how wood and absinthe have any correlation.

Maybe I got my facts wrong, but I thought it was often made with wormwood.

Whats wormwood?, I read in the paper today that Absinthe is now legal in Switzerland , so maybe I have a chance to try it, someone told me its just a cross between pernod and paraffin , but as my handle is Pernod Time it must be tried. Anyone have any absinthe experiences to share with us?

It is made with wormwood.