Reviews for I Am the Walrus Lyrics

Im so sorry guys but think it well.DO YOU REALLY THINK MCCARTNY'S FAMILY WOULD LET THEIR SON BE CLONED BY SOME BASTARD?! Sorry for that but be realistic it was just a beatle joke and; do you think they would keep working without their bestfriend?Would you? cause I wont. One more thing : this is one of his best songs.

You see everyone arguing about what this really means. But whatever John wrote it about, it's his own. All we can do now is take our interpretation and free our minds with it. That's the power of the Beatles. None of this argumentative stuff. We are supposed to hear it, and enjoy it. :D

You guys shouldnt be arguing about the Beatles, they didnt write their songs to be argued over. They are meant to be enjoyed by everyone. And dont think you sound smart dude because you wrote out LSD, we are on the internet for christs sake. But the Beatles did do LSD. How it is relevant to the song no one but them will know, and Paul is alive. If anyone says he is dead, they are literally retarded. The man still tours! Do you think "when he died" they made a clone? No. He has always looked, sounded, and acted the same. Plus if there was this original Paul, he was around so long ago that he had no influence on this band. Do they call Ringo fake even though Pete Best was the original drummer? No. Now go back to doing your drugs and shut up with your conspiracy crap

Paul is dead. 9/11 was an inside job. There are aliens in Roswell. Sir han sir han was a manchurian candidate and the tooth fairy really does exist. Hahahahahahaha. Talk about black helicopters. Hahahahah what ever u conspiracy theory dudes are on u need to divide it not hide it!!!! Lol

I spent like 5 days trying to comprehend this song. My conclusion: Paul died a terrible accident and was replaced somehow. After all, they had plastic surgeries since the World Wars. Although it matters not to me whether Paul is actually dead or not, I am very confident that the real Paul died. Most of my points are the same as the other posts that say Paul died. Infact, I recall an interview with Harrison where he called Paul Faul (some time after the supposed accident), which probably means fake Paul. Anyway, if it was a cover-up, I learned nothing new, because I already mistrust my govt because of Patton's "car accident", the Vietnam War, 9/11, etc...

The song was good as an acid trip or the mourning of supposedly dead Paul. Beautiful sound and mysterious vibe.

John was throwing together nonsense lyrics to mess with the heads of scholars trying to dissect The Beatles songs. They also mention that it's John's answer to Bob Dylan's "getting away with murder" style of songwriting. Lennon told Playboy years later that "I can write that crap too," which is rarely mentioned in relation to this song.The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend Lennon got the idea for the oblique lyrics when he received a letter from a student who explained that his English teacher was having the class analyze Beatles songs. Lennon answered the letter he idea for the Walrus came from the poem The Walrus and The Carpenter, which is from the sequel to Alice in Wonderland called Through the Looking-Glass Lennon said: "It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, s--t, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it?" When Lennon decided to write confusing lyrics, he asked his friend Pete Shotton for a nursery rhyme they used to sing. Shotton gave them this rhyme, which Lennon incorporated into the song:
"Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dog's eye.
Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick, then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick." The song's opening line, "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" is based on the song "Marching To Pretoria," which contains the lyric, "I'm with you and you're with me and we are all together." This song helped fuel the rumor that Paul McCartney was dead. It's quite a stretch, but theorists found these clues in the lyrics, none of which are substantiated:
"Waiting for the van to come" means the 3 remaining Beatles are waiting for a police van to come. "Pretty little policemen in a row" means policemen did show up.
"Goo goo ga joob" were the final words that Humpty Dumpty said before he fell off the wall and died.
During the fade, while the choir sings, a voice says "Bury Me" which is what Paul might have said after he died.
During the fade, we hear someone reciting the death scene from Shakespeare's play "King Lear." In The Beatles song "Glass Onion," Lennon sang, "The Walrus was Paul." He got a kick out of how people tried to interpret his lyrics and figure out who the Walrus was.and in the song god john says he was th walrus so basicly he was the walrus even in the i am the walrus music video it obvious he is

I know from my own experience as a songwriter that I hardly ever actually wrote while high. I would drop LSD and be inspired later by the experience, or I would shoot coke (I am now clean and sober) and write to deal with the pains of being an IV user. I think they most prob. did interned for a lot of the Beatles songs to be experienced while high, much like they experienced music when they were on a trip. I think they def wanted to put out some heady stuff.

For his fans, friends and foes alike to be having this conversation today, all of these years later...

What a marvellous outcome for having a bit of fun...and having a crack at "The Establishment" just for good measure.

Maybe he was right. The relevance of the Beatles may in time outstrip that of our mainstream theologians.

And he achieved it with apparent ease, his masterful irreverence and eloquent, cutting sarcasm.

But then again, I my well be completely wrong. How exquisite too!

Please don't insult each other, and please don't drag Lucy into this; whether they were on drugs when they wrote it has nothing to do with whether they were on drugs when they wrote I Am the Walrus. "Kato, now is neither the time nor the place!"
I love The Beatles' songs. I think they were brilliant, whether they were on drugs or not. Even if John was on drugs when he wrote the lyrics, his ideas did not come solely from such a source. The imagery from 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' is obvious. The Walrus attempts a discussion of flying pigs, he and the Carpenter are by the sea (crabalocker fishwife)...the entire poem is utter nonsense, just like this song.

First off I want to say I know nothing other than the common speculation of the LSD and whatnot. Maybe it's true maybe it isn't, but either way the art that came out of it is significant and should be explored. When you put those lyrics into the context of the time they were written and take into consideration the dialect you can actually pull some very clear easily understood allusions to [social issues] for lack of a better term that were the hot button issue of the moment at the time in that place.

So my stance is drugs or none, social message or none the lyrics speak to the human existence enough that you can take what you need from their music regardless of what generation you're from. There is a reason The Beatles are amongst the epitome of "classic rock". It is music that most people can connect to regardless of when or where they were born.

For gods sake, Paul DID not die, the song is a bout a book written by some dude which i cant remember lol but even if you say 'you got that shit from wikipedia' its in The Beatles Anthology DVD's. And john addmitedly said that the first verse was written on an Acid Trip.

Paul isn't dead my good sir. He is still alive and actually still tours with his band around the world. Nobody in the Beatles died from a crash, john was shot and George died from cancer. And about the LSD, that song is not about LSD. Even he Beatles themselves have refused the truth to that rumour. I heard that john was under he effects of LSD while he wrote and saw strange things, apparently his daughter with diamonds I
n the sky. Buy the song itself my friends, is not about LSD. Good day.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars, you have a right to be here...

Yes, the song is about his kids drawing and yes it is about Lasergic Acid Dythilamide (LSD), don't you see it was inspired by both as they tripped on the picture the kid had drawn. Simple. Just listen to the song... you have to have never done any L at all to think it was not about or refering to trippin'.. so perhaps the picture was a catalysts to that particular innerspace adventure within which the song was born.

John wrote this song trying to tell us Paul died:
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.( Meaning William Campbell who "replaced" Paul is now him)
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I'm crying. (they were crying after the crash)

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come. waiting for the ambulance to get to the scene)
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday.( his crash was on a tuesday night and he dies on teh way to the hospital due to head injurey. he died at midnight on Wednesday the 9th of November)
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long. (his face was long because of the injury, and he was being naughty for speeding)
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.

Mister City Policeman sitting ( the cops at the scene)
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run.
I'm crying, I'm crying. ( the were in mourning)
I'm crying, I'm crying.

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye.(no need for this one the head injury)
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. (the funeral)
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.

Expert textpert choking smokers, (the "new Paul" was shown smoking and the old Paul didnt, and back in the 60's in England cigarettes were called "coffin nails") Don't you thing the joker laughs at you? (this is to William to let him know people know)
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I'm crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna. (both these people metion on here are on the cover of the Sgt. Pepper and Lonley heart band album and everyone picture there with the exepection on John, George,and Ringo are dead)
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 g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo... (etc.)

I am the walrus WAS written when John Lennon heard about the teacher, but they did get the title from the poem the Walrus and the Carpenter.

And, in the song Glass Onion, when John Lennon mentions that the Walrus was Paul, it was actually his tribute to Paul. You see, earlier he was angry that his song Across the Universe was a B-side to Hello Goodbye. When he put in the line, The Walrus was Paul, it was sort've his way of apologizing.

And while many of their other songs were inspired by drugs, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds probably was not. Julian Lennon actually published the drawing he made as a kid.

Look it up. Lol.

P.S. I thought it was pretty funny when it was the parody,
but I am happy its back to normal.

P.P.S. The Beatles rock!

P.P.P.S. Don't do drugs kids! :D