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If she ever comes
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This to me is a song about a woman coming through a wooden door, and a man waiting for her to come through that door.
I cannot believe that anyone would see it differently
except that some people just have dirty dirty minds.
I say this!
Men don’t do that sort of reprehensible activity, and women most certainly don’t.
It’s well known that women spend their time on cooking tips and boasting about how well their children are doing compared to yours.
Point made.
So it must be about that wooden door.
Due to the group’s fondness of writing songs related to drug use the word “she” has also been regarded as a metaphor for drugs and “awaiting an intoxication that fails to occur”Another common interpretation is that the song is about Reed’s ostrich guitar. The line “She’s made out of wood” and Reed’s habit of exclaiming “Here she comes now” before soloing on various live recordings and performances lend credence to this.
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Apparently, due to the groups fondness for writings songs about drug abuse…the lyrics here are assumed to be about waiting for intoxication that fails to occur. The shortest song on the album.
I am so pleased that it’s not about something disgusting.
Lou Reed himself said it was about a wooden door.
The group doesn’t just write about drugs, but the writing is about things such as drugs that polite people are not supposed to sing about.
One thing which indicates that the song isn’t about drugs lies in the music, not the lyrics.
When the group played songs about drugs (Heroin, Sister Ray) the music is very very restless, quick, jerky, spiky. When I first heard Sister Ray I was in a pretty horrible place, and the music got into my body. It intensified my feelings of violence – not to others, but to myself. I didn’t have any help and I still don’t know how I managed to avoid the bin – no it wasn’t earlier this week, it was when I was a really young man.
Songs about beating up your girlfriend for not jumping to your demands fast enough (There She Goes Again) or punching your lovely wife to a pulp (the Berlin album) are also spiky, violent. Their subject matter is extremely disturbing.
The music can also very erotic – such as songs about sexual perversion (Some Kinda Love) or wooden doors (If She Ever Comes Now)
Other songs – about transvestism (Candy Says), adultery (Pale Blue Eyes), love’s finger touching a man’s self-hatred (I’ll Be Your Mirror) are beautiful musically, reflecting the great tenderness and love being expressed in the lyrics.
The music can be a guide, as well as the lyrics, though in the end it’s what you want to see.
When their debut album was released..they didn’t do very well at all in sales or recognition but Mick Jagger classed them as visionary and today they are classed as genus visionaries and fore -runners of The Punk and New Wave eras.
They were inducted into the Hall of Fame by none other than legendary rock chick…..Patti Smith. funily enough i was listening to her album entitled ‘Easter’ this morning..brilliant!
True Sceptical Guy that people see what they want to in music…….the only clear way of knowing is testimony from the writer of the lyrics or the band.
One famous case is The classic Police song.Every Breath you Take…which comes across as a lovely protective love ballad until Sting pointed out in an interview that the lyrics are actually about stalking some one. Puts an entirely darker and sinister twist to the song.
i quite like green door by shaking stevens
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LOL@Milkman…..Shaky was cool. biggest selling Male solo artist of the eighties. Love all his stuff even with the Sun-Sets. If i remember correctly..Shaky’s real name is Michael Barrett or some thing like that. Shakin’ Stevens summed up a pure innocence that has probably never been matched in popular music.
Shaky’s video to A Love Worth Waiting For is a classic…….mean while here’s the song from The Bop won’t Stop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfeYDxU-8k
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