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I am the Walrus
Written by Paw Friday, 17 April 2009 01:25
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Comments (47)
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04.16.2009 - 21:33 | Coldguy
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04.16.2009 - 21:35 | Punky
I always thought this sound needed to be on a top 11 Mindfuck songs. I still don't understand it lol.
You make any song feel so relaxing :lol:
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04.16.2009 - 21:38 | kamina
:0 My god, what kind of thing is that...is he talking about the eggman in sonic..cause he kind look like a walrus...i think...i am just so confused. :pinch:
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04.16.2009 - 21:58 | Lotus Prince
Or maybe he looks like a freaking EGG.
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09.18.2009 - 18:48 | Frank-N-Furter
...Sonic didn't come out until long after this was written.
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04.16.2009 - 21:46 | Ashariel
Hahaha.... drugs.
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04.16.2009 - 22:01 | I-dream-of-Hoolleewooood2
The Beatles were talking about revolution against the system. A philosophical inquiry, relative to Nietzsche's idea of the Superman; someone who is above the heard mentality (in this case government and war) and rises to lead the crowd into individuality and enlightenment. During the sixties, The Beatles did a lot of drugs and a lot of spiritual and philosophical re-evaluations of human existence (at least their own human existence).
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you're looking too deep into it. they were just high. no soul searching, no philosophy. just lsd. shit, they even mention lucy in the sky.
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04.16.2009 - 22:02 | TheNumberOneShmuck
JOOB
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04.17.2009 - 11:24 | Mr. Easterband
I feel like this song is really deep... I just don't know how.
It is probably the same reason why I like this song so much... I just don't know how. I just hope that the "Goog Goog G'joob" isn't what makes this song...
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10.31.2009 - 22:26 | 0dd1
John Lennon himself said that the only reason he wrote the song was to screw with people who look too deep into The Beatles' songs (he wrote it after hearing that the lyrics of Beatles songs were being analyzed in schools).
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04.16.2009 - 22:34 | Johnny MidniteJOOB!
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04.16.2009 - 22:51 | One Of Light
Religous Experience or Acid Trip...You decide!!!! ;)
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04.17.2009 - 00:51 | clemboFor those who don't know... John wrote this song because he was tired of people always trying to find meaning to all of his music. This was made while he was on heavy amounts of LSD and were intended to be as cryptic and random as possible. In short, he wanted a song so random that people who listen just to listen to it's beauty, and not try to read into it.
Ironically this has become one of the most scrutinized and studied songs you can find.
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John wrote this song based off a poem by Lewis Carroll in the book "Alice in Wonderland." There is a poem in the novel about a walrus and a carpenter talking to each other. The song has imagery mostly from Lewis Carroll's work. This was influenced by Carroll and so was Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"
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04.17.2009 - 02:03 | Maverick21
This song was not drug inspired, or based of alice in wonderland.The story behind this song is simple. the Beatles were sick of people analyzing the crap out of their songs,stuff like saying Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds means LSD when in actuality it was based off of a drawing johns son did of a girl he liked at school. so they decided they were just going to make a song of complete nonsense just to see how the analyzing critics reacted. so yeah, it wasn't a religious experience or an acid trip.
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04.17.2009 - 02:52 | RobinhoodAnyone trying to make sense of the lyrics, don't bother. You see, back in the late sixties, John heard about an English class in England that had their students analyze Beatles lyrics. So as a practical joke, he wrote random words that poped into his head and made them sound deep just to trick the students. And thats how this song was born. This is the truth. :)
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04.17.2009 - 04:12 | Dohguy
wow, and to think it was just an idea Lennon and Paul got from tripping, thanx robin :D
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04.17.2009 - 05:31 | RobYeah, I think lennon said something like " let's see what those assholes will find in there "
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04.17.2009 - 06:28 | BlueGoldBizarros
[b]"Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe!!!"[/b]
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :lol:
I just couldn't stop laughing :lol: HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAAA AHAHA
WOW, My mom was a huge Beatles nut, so how the hell did I miss this song :woohoo:
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04.17.2009 - 06:52 | Blitzkrieg1701
I never realized how much this song sounds like an 14 year old's crappy emo poetry before today. :0
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04.17.2009 - 08:17 | Bibilo
You missed the first line, jesus christ.
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04.17.2009 - 09:41 | TheDramaticMonarch
Wow...
I always knew this song was a slice 'o weird but when you put it this way? Damn. :P
Poor Edgar Allen Poe. :(
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I just read the interview with John from Playboy where he says the song came from the "Walrus and the Carpenter" poem of Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" He ultimately realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and says: "I thought, 'Oh, Shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, "I am the carpenter." But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? {Sings laughingly} 'I am the carpenter'"
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04.17.2009 - 10:21 | joeshadowman
it's funny how people think that this song was supposed to mean something. truth be told they weren't high or on lsd when they wrote this song or lucky in the sky (lucky in the sky was about a drawing that J. Lennon's son drew.) they were just having fun.
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04.17.2009 - 10:59 | NekomaruWhat the hell was that? :huh:
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This song means nothing. John took three different unfinished songs and combined the to make one while adding nonsensical lyrics to it as well.
One day John received a letter that said that a University in America was studying lyrics of Beatles songs. John thought it would be funny if he wrote something people would look so deeply into understanding when there is no hidden meaning. After John finished writing this song he said "There, let them try to figure this one out"
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04.17.2009 - 14:17 | clemboPeople who deny the Beatles LSD claims really need to read more interviews:
John on I am the Walrus "The first line was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko."
BBC reporting on an interview with Paul in a 2003 magazine, "He added it was "pretty obvious" that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was inspired by LSD, and other songs made "subtle hints" about narcotics"
It was the 60s. Everyone was doing psychedelic drugs. The difference between the Beatles and the others was that the Beatles could come down from their high long enough to refine it. Others just stayed in their constant euphoria. Not so sure why people think they need to say they weren't on drugs when if you read all the interviews and watch the Anthology, it's fairly obvious they were just as into it as everyone else was at the time. It doesn't make them any less of musical geniuses..
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04.17.2009 - 19:17 | Esteban
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye = Greatest song line ever written B)
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