She Makes Me - lyrics

I think it's great that different people can enjoy different Queen songs for different reasons.

Once I was listening to the song on headphones and as the sirens faded out at the end, I could hear them outside my window. Haha. Anybody else ever had that happen?

It's really funny to read what concernes you people. Get over it: It's a great song and nobody cares where it was written and who played the acoustic guitar. To compare struming patterns is – sorry - ridiculous.

Since I've been listening to the early albums all the time as a little kid (born in 1975), I still remember all the references I've had when I didn't get the lyrics yet and could only imagine what they meant. She makes me always made me a little scared at the end. It seemed that everything came crashing down, with buildings colapsing. Plus the heavy breathing, the drumming and the monotone guitar sound at the end. When Brian says something about "Nightmare sounds", it fits exactly what I felt like while listening to it. Looking at Rogers face on the cover completed my picture. It totally fits the atmosphere in my opinion.

I later thought it was about a failed relationship. But the New York City reference makes sense to me. Big Cities can be terrifying.

Bottom line: Great song, great atmosphere.

Actually, some people care about those details. If you don't, good for you, but you shouldn't care about whether we care about that or not. Get over it.

Oh, and by the way: to compare strumming patterns is not ridiculous. To think that if you don't care then nobody does, THAT is ridiculous. And quite retarded too.

Yeah, gotta agree with Seb.  Some people are music researchers and some aren't.  It's very silly to condemn people who want to decode the music to learn more about how it was made.

A large part of being human is in fact over- (or under-, depending on how you look at it) focusing on aspects that other couldn't care less (or more, depending on how you look at it). And in many cases (including this one), that's completely harmless.

Actually, it's one of my favourite songs. Period. It's really been in my mind a lot lately, not lyrically but musically. I was writing a song of my own, it had its own structure and all of a sudden... it was hijacked! I thought about it for a few minutes, then I realized the chords from the "hijacked" part were a dead-on match for She Makes Me (Who knows who she'll make me as I lie in her cocoon...). It's that deeply buried in my psyche. And I've been listening to it since 1974. It's always haunted me and it's among the best that Brian wrote, IMHO.

I like the comparison to NYC, and I can also see the hospital recovery and the infidelity angles. Either way, the mood evoked by the music can support any of those interpretations. That's what I love about songwriting, there can be so much ambiguity! And that's why I often hate music videos, because they take that element away.

That's a damn fine first post SourMilkSea.