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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about I Am the Walrus (page 4/ 22) ------ performed by The Beatles interpretation | Reviewer: bdyanks | 6/5/09 This song was written as a revolt against the interpretation by others on the meaning of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. John Lennon was pissed off that people thought it was about LSD instead of a picture that his son drew for him that he wrote this song. He said that if they want a drug song he would give it to them. Every line in this song is just random things that John said during an acid trip and he just put them all together to create this song. The Beatles. A Teacher. The Fuckers | Reviewer: The Extra Terrestrial | 3/23/09 I think that this song, as written by several others before me, has to do with totally stumping this teacher that he had the interview with. It makes sense. I think it may also be, as others have also written, directed at all those who try to analyze his music in general. so yes, in a way, a "I'll show you!" song dont know what to call this | Reviewer: Betty | 3/22/09 you do know that this song was to screw people over(the people who tried to interpret it). When Lennon was asked in an interview what the song was about he answered "nothing" and then said...."If Bob Dylan can write nonsense, so can I". I am the Walrus | Reviewer: Yippingprairie | 3/7/09 Very simple. Lennon hearing a british police siren going by his window while at the piano, came up with the basic melody for this song. He then went through some basic lines written in notes over the years and strung them together. He said to himself, "I dare the BBC to tell me what this song means!" As it was simply gibberish. The rest is History! To hippychick... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/10/09 As far as interpretation...I sigh. I have heard (though I claim to be no expert here) that the (I am he...we are all together) came from their memories of three separate trips. From each of these, JL tried to devise a song. The imagery from most of it was supposedly memories of these trips. While they may have meant it on some level to have a deeper meaning, I have to go with the "Hm." Comment. Their songs are whatever you want them to be. And the police bit, Lennon had said that he improvised that to the beat of a police siren when a cop car passed him one day. danni | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/8/09 Its funny how many people try to interpret this, because the Beatles wrote this song because they were mocking the people who tried so hard to interpret their songs. The purpose of the song is that there is no meaning, and to perplex those who insist on interpreting it. My Interpretation | Reviewer: hippychik | 1/28/09 FIRST VERSE- "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." - would this not go to show that no matter what differences people think they have from race to race, that they are actually all the part of the "human Race"... hence- "we are all together"? the part "see how they fly" could be metaphorically speaking of seeing people with a neuse around their necks, hanging from trees? At the end of this verse when he says "i'm crying" This probably meaning that these acts make him sad. SECOND VERSE- I think this whole verse refers to the men who wear suit&tie to work. "sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come" to me, interprets, trying to sit in a crowded bus stand (a cornflake is tiny, much like the amount of room they have to sit on) and the "van" would be a bus (metaphorically called van because the busses are crowded, and feel quite a bit smaller than what you would picture, if you had never been on a city bus)-- "Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long." I think this means ... they have let themselves into their unhappy job, and are doing nothing to make themselves happy in life... hence "you've let you face grow long" also used in the common saying "why such a long face?" THIRD VERSE- I'm pretty sure that this might be about protesting. "Mister City P'liceman sitting...Pretty little policemen in a row" would refer to the people that run the city, including the policemen that sit in offices, sending "pretty little policemen" (swat) to the scene of a large protest, where they stand in a row, facing the protestors. "See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run." would then refer to when gunshots are fired, the pretty policemen don't think twice about doing so, hence- "see how they fly like lucy in the sky". Leaving the part part saying "see how they run", would be when the protestors run from the gunshots. FOURTH VERSE- I believe this verse is about dirty whores, women who will open their legs for anyone. "yellow matter custard... dripping from a dead dog's eye"- Picture a grubby, dirty man, with diseases (metaphorically called a dog)- this being said, to show the kind of people whore do end up sleeping with. "crabalocker fishwife" means a sexually dirty wife, who has alot of crabs(crab-a-locker), and smells like fish. "Pornographic Priestess" probably means that even those who are thought to be "pure" are not always that, and they too engage in sexually explicit acts that are done for the wrong reasons, and overall wrong in Gods eyes. "Boy, you been a naughty girl and you let your knickers down."- pretty self-explanitory! haha ____________________________ Thats all i've got so far! Hope you liked it!! Expert texpert choking smokers, Don't you think the joker laughs at you? | Reviewer: Caity | 1/26/09 The Beatles are my biggest inspiration in life, and their music actually saved my life. Whether they did drugs, whether or not this song has a meaning, none of that matters. Appreciate the music and find your own meaning in it, the same as you finding your own meaning in life. It's all about perceptions. Peace the world john Lenon | Reviewer: Mandon | 1/21/09 I heard that John Lenon had an interveiw with a profeesor, who said that there was a course at his school, whose purpose was to "deciefer" Beatles songs, and he wrote I am the Walrus as an "I'll show you!" song. How about reading things correctly | Reviewer: Julz | 1/18/09 To the person who wrote this quote: "I'm interested in the reviews that say the "lyrics still apply today" and "it's sometimes true"... exactly which bits? is it "Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come" or "Semolina Pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower" that seem particularly relevant? Come on... find some music that actually has lyrics for fuck's sake!" I suggest you learn to read properly. The quote that you're referring to by Karen, she stated that "Their music and lyrics still apply today". As in, their music as a collective, not just this one song. Learn to read properly. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages