Reviews for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Lyrics

in the last line in the 3rd verse, he says "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes"

on lSD, you see kaleidoscope images on every solid surface, i know because i have done LSD. So yes, this song is most likely about LSD

To reviewer Nick: who says EVERYONE in the 60s was on drugs? I wasn't. I was a straight-arrow Catholic school kid with no experience of sex, drugs, or alcohol and was the world's biggest Beatles fan! All us kids had all their records and knew all their songs by heart. We also put flowers in our hair for a joke and paraded around the playground holding hands and singing Scott Mackenzie's "San Francisco." Meanwhile our older brothers were shooting up, and "shooting up" in Vietnam. Yes, we were innocent. Yes, by 1970 most of us were using drugs.... "Lucy" has a dreamy, trance-like sound that signaled the new directions rock music was going in. Does it matter if the original inspiration came from LSD? Not really, though most listeners at the time probably assumed that it did.

Julian Lennon drew a picture at school of his classmate Lucy, flying in the sky with Diamonds. John Lennon picked his son up from school and saw the picture and wrote a song titled after the picture. Even Julian says this is true. I am not saying it couldn't be a song about LSD, but all I am saying is that if it is, that connotation must have come afterwards, when The Beatles were writing the song.

Actually this song is not about "lsd" at all and Lucy in the sky with diamonds doesn't stand for lsd at all. It was the title of a picture that one of the band members kid made in school the picture was of a girl flying in a sky made up of diamonds!

who cares if its about LSD cant yuh just shut up and hear this incredable music without stupid coments the beatles were the BOMB even if they were on drugs! always the best THE BEATLES<3

"Day Tripper," he says, "that's one about acid. 'Lucy in the Sky,' that's pretty obvious. There's others that make subtle hints about drugs, but, you know, it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music."[4]
-Matus, Victorino (June 2004). "The Truth Behind "LSD"". The Weekly Standard.

It's about acid. To even think that it's not is just plain naive.
McCartney said it himself.

The Beatles most definitely dropped acid.

It's important not to group all illicit drugs together though; they're all different.

LSD has no physically addictive traits. It has the potential for psychoactive addiction (habit; body doesn't need it, but you do it because you have an emotional or routine attachment), but even that is extremely rare due to the tolerance and length of LSD. If you drop two tabs one day, then two tabs the next, the strength of your trip will be "halved"; you would need to drop four tabs to achieve the same trip you did the day before, and even then, it still wouldn't be the same. Also, a lot of people state that, while they enjoyed their trip, they wouldn't do it again for a while.

In terms of long term AND short term physical health effects, there has literally been none proven or suspected. Long term mental health effects is debatable; a lot of heavy (I emphasize heavy) acid users end up a little off in later life, but no actual mental "damage" (per se) inflicted. People suffering of are going to suffer from schizophrenia later in their life should stay away from acid though, because while it won't GIVE them schizophrenia, it will make it worse/speed up the process of getting it. LSD has actually shown some pretty positive results as a medicinal substance though; it's shown promise as a treatment for alcoholism.

LSD isn't crack or meth; it's completely different on every level. Non-addictive and it won't damage you physically or (unless you're schizo) mentally. It is most definitely better for you than alcohol.

Evidence from www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd.shtml - sorry I can't be anymore precise than that; I'm at school.

Interpret this song anyway you choose, but it was NOT intended to be a drug song by Lennon. He denied it at the time and continued to deny it throughout the rest of his life. Since he so freely admitted to writing other songs related to LSD, why would he feel obligated to deny it for so many years? It was obviously a song with tremendous imagery, and if you want to believe John was tripping when he wrote it or was describing a prior trip, go for it.

Puritans? Seriously, things aren't that simple. There's a huge drug industry in the world that gets more profit if the drugs are illegal. Make them legal would lower the prices, also because this market would be opened to every industry that whorks under the law. That's it.

yeh the song is about LSD but so what it an amazing song and people did do LSD get over it and the beatles was and still are the best band ever so what if they were on drugs or not!

Of course if you are a star and you do drugs you don't just scream on mass tv that the song is about LSD! Even at the ond of the 60s, there were still enough bozos to ban the song because it was suspected of being about LSD, even after Lenon smartly lied about it...the BBC did BAN IT! Outrageous. You make a cute lie and you smile and laugh behind the camera, with all your fans knowing the truth. Remember that in the 70s and 80s is when the puritains started the irresponsible (counterproductive) war on drugs. The Beatles were smart and had nothing to win by being prosecuted, hence the cute lie continued.

But 30 years laters, once this was all water under the bridge: in a 2004 interview, Paul McCartney said that the song is about LSD, stating, "A song like 'Got to Get You Into My Life,' that's directly about pot, although everyone missed it at the time." "Day Tripper," he says, "that's one about acid. 'Lucy in the Sky,' that's pretty obvious. There's others that make subtle hints about drugs, but, you know, it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music."[4]
-Matus, Victorino (June 2004). "The Truth Behind "LSD"". The Weekly Standard.

If you think it is not about acid/LSD you are pretty naive.

Now let's be honest, if you read the lyrics to this song and you don't find them weird, well then there is a problem. I mean seriously, they're talking about rocking horse people and tangerine trees. No one in their right mind would think that this was a good idea. Plus, this song was published in the 60's (correct me if I'm wrong) and those were the hippie days were everyone was on drugs. And let's face it, there's a huge chance that the Beatles abused of drugs, in fact I'm about 98% sure they did. So, they were high when they wrote the song. Period.

Right, guys. I'm 14 and I know what this is about. After a lot of research I discovered that this song was inspired by a picture that Lennon's son Julian drew in nursery. He named it after a classmate Lucy O'Donnell. Shortly after the song was released the BBC found the first letter of each noun in the title spelled LSD. It was then banned. Paul and John denied writing the song about LSD and said it was just an inspiration of a dream-like drawing!

This song is not related to LSD or anything and still who cares, just listen to the song lads n fall to ur dreamland... Long live the Beatles, long live John Lennon, Macca, George and Ringo

You are all just assuming that this song is about drugs. None of you know the truth, neither do I but I personally believe the word of the songwriters above the word of the press. John, Paul, George and Ringo stated many times in interviews and whatever that the song is not about lsd. What actually happened was Julian Lennon came up to John and showed him a picture that he had drawn, when John asked what it was, he said. 'its Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'. This is the meaning behind the song. If you google it you can actually find the picture that Julian drew.

This is a great song! Its only rumours that they were on LSD and it most likely is just A COINCIDENCE that the title could spell out LSD. Despite that, this song was originally inspired by a kid's drawing so.... if they were on drugs.. who cares?? it just made the song better :P gives you that "cloud-nine" feel