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Fri 3 Aug, 2007 01:46 pm
Anybody know what the words to this song mean? Is it a symbolic song, or is it all just meaningless wordplay?
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I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.
MAN, you been a naughty boy, and let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
goo goo g'joob
Mister City P'liceman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying. I'm cry------------ing,
I'm crying. I'm cry------------ing.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your Knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
goo goo g'joob
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don't come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob
Expert texpert choking smokers,
Don't you think the joker laughs at you? (ho ho ho, he, he he, ha, ha, ha)
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snide.
I'm crying.
Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus,
goo goo g'joob, goo goo goo g'joob, goo goo g'joob, g'goo goo g'joob g'goo
(rhythmical speaking along with juba's).
Juba juba juba, juba, juba, juba, juba, juba, juba juba. Juba juba.....
(speaking)
--Repeat (eventually juba's will stop) and fade until end.--
during the fade out background vocals:
[Simultaneously:] 'Everybody smokes pot' and 'Oompa, oompa, stick it up your joompa' [jumper]
they were all on the goofball when they wrote that.
It was probably on a Tuesday though, that is a generally irritating day.
Probably just meaningless. There was a piece of film i saw once from when Lennon was still living in England, and a young American hippie who had undergone a certain amount of hardship to get there showed up at the door while they were filming. Lennon eventually got somewhat frustrated with this kid's insistence on the cosmic significance of his songs, although his demeanor remained kind, and he said something to the effect that he might have taken a particularly satisfying **** that morning and that inspired him to write a song. Then he gently suggested that the young man looked tired, and invited him in for a bowl of soup.
One of the songs on the White Album says "the Walrus was Paul"
This is my only clue.
I think they dropped a bunch of acid and saw weird stuff...lmao
If you play it backward, it says, "Any resemblance to actual lyrics, living or dead, is purely coincidental."
Quote:Anybody know what the words to this song mean? Is it a symbolic song, or is it all just meaningless wordplay?
Everybody here is absolutely.........right! The Beatles (specifically, John Lennon) did it as a goof on the people who would look for the "profound" meaning or hidden messages in his songs.........like yourself, for example (I keed, I keed).
I'm serious about Lennon, though. He did it as a joke on the "there must be some hidden message in there" people. I think he thought it'd be funny to see what they'd make of it. (Unlike Strawberry Fields which might sound non-sensical, but actually
did have meaning.)
AND YES! I KNOW WAAAAAYYY TOO MUCH ABOUT THE BEATLES!!!
Strawberry fields was an amusement park in Liverpool, and he once lived on Penny Lane.
Penny Lane was a McCartney song. It was a street in their old Liverpool neighborhood, but I don't think any of the Beatles ever lived on Penny Lane.
Strawberry Fields was a very personal statement of Lennon's.
For instance:
"No one I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high or low..."
meaning, "not many people seem to be on the same wavelength as me... I must be very intelligent or not too bright..."
Lash wrote:One of the songs on the White Album says "the Walrus was Paul"
This is my only clue.
I think they dropped a bunch of acid and saw weird stuff...lmao
Yeah that's right, on Glass Onion. I read in that giant Beatles Anthology that "the Walrus was Paul" line was a gag on John's part, played on all the fans and critics reading so deep into his lyrics. He just randomly tossed it in there to throw them off.
It's well known over here what the "Walrus" song was about. John at the time had come to regard Beatles fans as morons because as he said on a chat type show all they do is scream (the females) and nobody hears our work
He also had a loathing of these self styled "guru" types that used to sit around on their arses smoking ganja and proclaiming their knowledge of Lennons lyrics
So he purposely wrote the "walrus" rubbish to demonstrate how gullible the public were
And he was right, it sold a million copies
That's so funny...I remember an interview with him about the lyrics to Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds....He said everyone is certain that the acronym was LSD....and he said Julian came home one day with a fabulous drawing from school of a beautiful girl...he said "It's Lucy...in the sky...with diamonds...."
Funny
Yes, I know John was spoofing the ones looking for messages in his songs. Still, the recording achieves an Alice in Wonderland quality and I do occasionally play it on the stereo.
Quote:I am the walrus,
goo goo g'joob
I can explain that particular passage. He is implying that he (the singer) is the walrus by saying so "I am the walrus" and then, as if there was perhaps a doubting Thomas in the crowd, he strengthens his argument and adds validity to his assertion by speaking the archaic and esoteric language spoken only by the walruses known to inhabit the part of the world that, until the time the song was written, was largely unknown to the non-carbuncular static toss farriors of the clavicular clapboardl, ditariously speaking.
I can explain the rest of the song but not until I lick a few more toads and drink some goat urine.
i am english i will explain when i feel like it
Steve 41oo wrote:i am english i will explain when i feel like it
We wait, rapt, for your every word.
I hardly ever try to figure out the meaning in a song.... espcecially a song like this one. I love it but it never occured to me to think about the words and the meaning. I love music, all genres and all decades but I'm one of those people that just listen and like the sound or tune and just sing along. I find myself after hearing a song over and over and know the words finally one day actually "hearing" the lyrics and saying to myself, wow, I didn't know that was what that song was about. Unless it's a romantic/love song - I hear those lyrics
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