Beatles: Come Together Meaning

Song Released: 1969

Covered By: Taylor John Williams (2014), Gary Clark Jr. (2017)

Come Together Lyrics

Lyrics removed by the request of NMPA

1. anonymous

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   Nov 27th 2007 !⃝

   Come together means to achieve orgasm with your partner at the same time. listen to the end of the song-john is screaming in sexual delight

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
2. anonymous

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   Nov 21st 2007 !⃝

   You guys, it's about heroin addiction. getting three bags dealt from the dealer....feel his disease...dirty filter.."I know you, you know me" I can't believe more people don't know this!!
3. anonymous

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   Nov 19th 2007 !⃝

   The Beatles each one of them represent a certain kind of Beatle(insect) which ones.
   
   Also what does Chuck Berry have to do with the song "Come Together"
4. anonymous

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   Nov 11th 2007 !⃝

   The song has something to do with chuck berry and I want to know what it is. I also need to know what verse belongs to what beatle
5. anonymous

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   Nov 9th 2007 !⃝

   I really have no clue what this song could be about, but I feel like they were probably trippin when the song was wrote and a bunch of crazy lyrics just came out. But hey it's an awesome song!
6. anonymous

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   Oct 16th 2007 !⃝

   Personally I think you all are reading too much into it. This isn't the song that was written for the PAUL IS DEAD craze. You're mistaken for Glass Onion. Glass onion was written with a whole bunch of "fake clues" expressing Johns frustration with people reading too far into his lyrics as far as John and Paul once again showing their wit by giving the PAUL IS DEAD cult something to chew on. I think it's quite obvious that this song is about John Himself.
   
   He got hair down to his knees - He was growing out his hair at this point.
   Got to be a joker he just do what he please- That describes JOhn almost perfectly.
   he wear no shoeshine- John is known for speaking out against the higher class.
   He shoot coca cola- In the movie "a Hard days night" during the scene while they're on the train John tries to snort cola from a bottle. I always saw it as a reference to that.
   
   he got walrus gumboot- he was the walrus
   he got ono sideboard- Yoko ono
   He got feet down below his knees- John was always reminding people he and the other beatles were normal people like everyone else
   Got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see- Without his glasses John was legally blind
7. anonymous

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   Aug 28th 2007 !⃝

   In all honesty I'm not a religious fanatic, but I believe the song has several references to the hypocrisy of god. Many Beatles songs contain references to peace, love, and, of course, drugs. This one's no different, however the lyrics imply a second meaning.
   
   "He one holy roller, He got hair down to his knee, Got to be a joker he just do what he please." Maybe the stereotypical image of god with the hair, the holy roller is pretty self explanatory, and of course God can be viewed as a "joker" since many things credited to the creator are very humorous, and sometimes inexplicable.
   
   These lyrics are loaded as well. "He roller-coaster, he got early warning, He got muddy water, he one mojo filter, He say "One and one and one is three, Got to be good-looking because he's so hard to see" Obviously one could delve into religious philosophy, but I'll keep it simple. 1+1+1=3, A holy trinity reference maybe? Of course no one has ever seen god(hence so hard to see), and even so more war is carried out in his name than for any other cause known to man.
   
   All the references to disease like, "Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease, Come together right now over me", may be a insinuation that God, and religion is corrupt. Makes sense, after all the Beatles promote peace and religion has been a basis for conflict since the beginning of time.
8. anonymous

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   Jul 10th 2007 !⃝

   I don't think it's as complicated as many are making it out to be. While it does have some intentional meaning, I suspect that most of it is meant to be taken as a whole and not as much verse by verse, measure by measure. And, I also wonder how much of the song may have been just things that may have happened between the members of the band that are mostly insignificant, but were thrown into the song. For example, there may have been a joke about one of the members walking slow when the rest were in a hurry - he come grooving up slowly...or perhaps while they were working on a song, one of them was trying to get the beat down and another was trying to explain it to him after being frustrated by it - it happens - and said one and one and one is three. Then when Lennon was trying to piece together the song, he may have just been singing something to make it fit and that came to mind. Then, he realized what fit and could flow well as a song towards the overall meaning he was after.
   
   As a whole, I think the song is about the evolution of The Beatles and the influence they saw themselves making on the world. You can see that throughout the song, it gradually builds to being more hippieish. At first he's got a flattop and he's a holy roller, then he evolves to not wearing shoeshine and having hair down to his knees. Then it becomes psychedelic and rollercoasterish and really begins to seem like gibberish, which is what I think Lennon was shooting for. The Beatles were like that. They all started off looking all dapper in suits and with short hair and seeming to be the nice kids that everybody wanted them to be. Then as musicians and people they evolved with the times as the song suggests. But overall, they were putting out music for people to listen to and it brought many people together in the long run.
   
   I think that's what made Lennon a great song writer. I think he didn't even realize for sure the undertones of some of his stuff. He just did what he felt and put it out there in a way that left you wanting more.
9. anonymous

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   Jul 8th 2007 !⃝

   Another window into the dense imagery and symbolism in this song is the controversial document "60if", which may or may not have been anonymously penned by someone in the Beatles inner circle, and may be a hoax. However, if it is a hoax, it is very clever, for it is like a grand Unified Beatles Theory, which puts all that you are discussing into context.
   
   "It - It looks like a walrus!"
10. anonymous

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    Jun 22nd 2007 !⃝

    My interpretation is correct.
    
    Come together over me.. Is about a sexual threesome.
    
    "1 + 1 + 1 is three"...
    "got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see" - You can't see him cause he is covered by two ladies. I'm tellin' you people... This is the winner. Vote away.

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11. anonymous

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    Jun 3rd 2007 !⃝

    Well, the song doesn't make a great deal of sense to me, but one thing I'm sure of is that "spinal cracker" does NOT refer to crack cocaine. The word "crack" didn't become associated with cocaine until the 1980s.
    
    I've never heard "spinal cracker" in any context other than this song, so I always thought he was singing "spinal traction" which has the advantage of at least being an actual phrase, even if it doesn't really clarify the meaning of the song any.
    
    However, it really does sound more like "cracker."
12. anonymous

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    May 28th 2007 !⃝

    I think this song is about drugs
    He shoot coca cola - coke
    1 and 1 and 1 is 3 - the lines of coke you make

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13. anonymous

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    May 20th 2007 !⃝

    "Come together right now over me" who else but Jesus. And because Jesus spoke in parable's the whole song is in riddels. What a fantastic idea!! Hear we go with a couple:
    "he got joo joo eye ball, he one Holy roller"- Jesus was jewish (jew jew eyeballs)
    
    "he's got early warnings"-Jesus stresses to always be ready for the end.
    
    "mojo filter"- what else would you call turning water into wine
    
    "One and one and one is three"-The Father, Son and Holy Ghost
    
    "Hold him in your arms so you can Feel his disease"- Love is his "disease"
    
    "He's got feet down below his knee"- When Jesus arose it is written he has feet, meaning his body arose not just his spirit simply floating around.
    
    "he's got to be a joker he just do what he please"-Haven't you enver heard "God has to have a sence of humor"?
    
    "He's got hair down to his knee"-Jesus is always depicted with long hair
    
    Of cours "come together right now over me",is the chorus, This is the whole meaning of Christianity.
    
    I actually can do every lyric. but I don't want to give it all away, what fun would that be???
14. anonymous

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    May 19th 2007 !⃝

    It was written in support of Timothy Leary.
    
    He decided not to use it directly in his campaign.
    
    And yes it can have an LSD trip slant...because Timothy Leary "researched" mind altering drugs lol.
    
    And yea all of the other slants are possibilities. The biographies and whatnot. don't forget who you are dealing with...don't reduce them to gibberish. They were artists and artists do not do anything without a purpose. besides...the Lennon "gibberish" always had some initial meaning or purpose or inspiration...regardless of how vague or unrelated it may seem. It may be stream of consciousness at times...or seem like gibberish...but there is a reason.
    
    Don't be so provincial. Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison weren't amateurs. oh yea...Ringo did a good job with Octopus's Garden.
    
    haha I'll include ringo with the rest. He deserves some credit too.
15. anonymous

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    Apr 8th 2007 !⃝

    I tend to agree with the biographical slant, however, to me the verses are aimed quite differently than has been suggested.
    i.e. 1. Here come old flat top, he come groovin' up slowly
    (Ringo was the oldest member of the band and his
    initial presentation would've reflected this);
    Gotta be a joker, he just do what he please
    (common perception of Ringo, esp. In early days)
    2. George Harrison - one thing I can tell you is you've
    gotta be free (this was perhaps the most flattering
    verse and reflective of John's respect for George
    at the time). He wear no shoe shine = no bullshit
    3. I thought this could've been attributed to George
    Martin or John himself - bag production, ono
    sideboard may have been a snipe at Yoko's perpetual
    presence at Recording sessions.
    4. Clearly Paul. In interviews with th press, reading
    between the lines, but sometimes more obviously,
    John has stated that he felt many of Paul's songs
    (lyrics in particular) were simplistic (one and one
    and one is three) and this reflected his
    personality or lack thereof(gotta be good
    looking 'cause his so hard to see - to me this is
    the clearest clue). Mojo filter and Muddy Waters
    reflects a view of Paul being able to reproduce the
    blues-derived African American style of the 60's -
    like a switch - brilliant, but where did it come
    from (i.e. Sometimes arguably trite lyrics were
    secondary to the sound he was trying to achieve)
    
    John Lennon always considered himself the crucial ingredient in The Beatles' success. He was deservedly narcissistic, e.g. keeping the brilliance of George Martin hidden away lest someone else would be seen to "come together" over him and detract from his genius/extent of contribution.
    The song is deliberately obscure - otherwise one suspects there may have been a walk-out then and there! As somebody suggested, it could easily be dismissed as rubbish (by John) on the basis of people reading hidden meanings into Beatles songs and him leading them up the garden path.
    It turned out to be a brilliant song, with exceptional instrumental contributions by all band members and the brillian production by George Martin.

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