I am a Walrus,what was this song about?!


Question: famous Beatles number ,great lyricsts they were Im still at a loss a to what thie song means besides the obvious implications they were smokeing the wacky backy,any clues??


Answers: famous Beatles number ,great lyricsts they were Im still at a loss a to what thie song means besides the obvious implications they were smokeing the wacky backy,any clues??

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?li...

"it is true that the Beatles deliberately put hidden messages and meanings in their album covers and lyrics and recordings just to keep their fans frothing at the mouth.

the Beatles never took themselves seriously. their music may have taken a serious tone by the time Sgt Pepper was done, but the Beatles never took themselves seriously as a band.

John, for one, resented all the hype and worked feverishly toward the end of the Beatles' career (along with Yoko) to destroy any little box the media and the fans tried to put them in.

"I Am the Walrus" was based on Carroll's "The Walrus & The Carpenter" as Jabbatut pointed out, but was more along the lines of Carroll's "Jabberwocky" in terms of nonsense.

the lyrics all have some foundation in Lennon's childhood and early adult life pre-Beatles.

the lyric about the Eggman is supposedly about Eric Burdon, of fellow Brit band the Animals (House of the Rising Sun). Eric Burdon apparently liked to involve eggs in the bedroom, and John was taking the piss out of him. the Eggmen would be the rest of the Animals.

and yes, tho debatable, it does sound as if there is a crowd chanting "Smoke pot, Smoke Pot, Everybody Smoke pot" in the background.

also amidst the flurry of voices in the end of the song you can hear the Beatles singing the lyrics from their past hits, which is something they did quite often!

John actually wrote the song after he found out a class at an English University was started for the sole purpose of deciphering the Beatles' lyrics.

reportedly, after recording the song, Lennon smiled to producer George Martin and said, "There, let those buggers figure that one out."

Nothing, just Lennon messing about.

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The genesis of the lyrics is found in three different song ideas that Lennon was working on, the first of which was inspired by hearing a police siren while at his home in Weybridge; Lennon wrote the lines "Mis-ter cit-y police-man" to the rhythm of the siren. The second idea was a short rhyme about Lennon sitting in his Weybridge garden, while the third idea was a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake. Unable to finish the ideas as three different songs, he instead chose to combine them into one.

Sometime later, Lennon received a letter from a pupil attending Quarry Bank Grammar School, which he had attended as a child. The writer mentioned that the English master was making his class analyze Beatles song lyrics (John wrote an answer to the letter, dated September 1, 1967, which was auctioned by Christie's of London in 1992).

Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding Beatles lyrics, decided to write the most confusing, unusual lyric he could. Lennon's childhood friend and former fellow member of The Quarrymen, Peter Shotton, was visiting, and Lennon asked Shotton about a silly playground nursery rhyme that they used to sing when they were kids.

Shotton remembered the words:

"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".[3]

Lennon borrowed a couple of words from the rhyme, added the three old unfinished ideas and the result was the lyrics to "I Am the Walrus". Beatles official biographer Hunter Davies was present while the song was being written and wrote an account in his 1968 book on the band. Upon finishing the lyrics, Lennon remarked to Shotton, "Let the ******* work that one out."

The Walrus was Paul.

It was about how the Rolling Stones are better than the Beatles.

That's right, I said it.

In some cultures being "the Walrus" means you are to blame for something, usually something bad. It's quite possible Lennon was having a thinly veiled snipe at the other Beatles who were not happy about his relationship with Yoko who, as you may or may not know, was implicated as one of the principle reasons the Beatles ultimately broke up.

That's what I heard it was about anyway.

Steve.
(I was there man!)

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1...

The Beatles were experimenting with a Bob Dylan technique for lyric writing, in which interesting phrases, words and lines are put together, with no regard for whether the whole thing makes sense, as in a folk ballad in which a story is told....Dylan pioneered this style of lyric writing and introduced the Beatles to it.
This form is still in use today, on certain songs.
In the movie, Magocal Mystery Tour, however, the Beatles dress up in costumes and one of them dresses as a Walrus. The song and the scene in the film go together, obviously.



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