Beatles: Helter Skelter Meaning

Song Released: 1968

Covered By: Motley Crue

Helter Skelter Lyrics

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah yeah yeah hey

Do you, don't you want me to love you
I'm coming down fast but I'm miles...

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   #1 top rated interpretation:
   GetBackJojo

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   Jan 14th 2008 !⃝

   Bollocks to all of you! One of you has it right. Paul read a review on the Who's "I can see for miles" that said that it was one of the greatest rock songs. Darling Paul had to go one better, and just jammed with the lads for a good half hour or so and edited it down to 5 mins or so. Duh, the lyrics are about a rollercoaster, it's the music that mattered in this one!

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   ny7yankee

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   Nov 20th 2008 !⃝

   It is very well documented that this is about a roller coaster ride. Paul has commented on this song several times on where it came from.
   
   Listen to the Anthology version, it is much slower than the White Album version, and has a hint of the blues to it.
   
   It used to scare me as a kid with all the Charlie Manson stuff, but only Charlie interpreted the song to mean something to his family.

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   anonymous

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   Jan 20th 2008 !⃝

   Getbackjojo.....you are dead on. everyone listen to that guy. He is totally right. Charles manson claimed he heard hidden messages in this song, Rocky Raccoon, and piggies and rev. #9. John was asked to testify at Manson's trial but refused saying "Well he's barmy. He's like any other Beatles kind of fan who reads mysticisim into it. I mean we used to have a laugh putting this, or the other in, in a light-hearted way. Some intellectual would read us, some symbolic youth generation wants it, but what's "Helter Skelter" got to do with knifing somebody? I never listened to the words properly. It was just noise."
4. anonymous

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   Jul 28th 2018 !⃝

   A Helter Skelter is a type of amusement park slide, specifically one that spirals around a tower, not a damn roller-coaster.. Does anyone own a dictionary ffs? But, the word in and of its own also means confusion or disorder. Hence the slide being named that.
5. anonymous

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   Nov 25th 2017 !⃝

   On the surface this exuberant BEATLES 'helter skelter' song was and is about the ups and downs of life, experienced as a rollercoaster ride. But of course, it comes down if you were on a bad trip as a illumanati/ free Mason undercurrent takeover. That has been playing out like in real life, as the illumanati's slide 'hijacked infiltration' of the Vatican and her 'Mary' worshipped Roman Catholic church. This takeover by the illumanati took place around 1963. By which darkend the church and the je[w]suits again on the left hand path use of the dark arts. A black magic that was fused together into the white magic the church once practiced. Which then altogether started to take orders straight from the illumanati, instead of the pope,or more important God. Who was left behind by the illumanati controlled je[w]suits,which then opened the Pandora's box that began the rise of black magic witchcraft movies, mixed with the spread of psychedelic drugs and all kinds of indulgences. By which also began to give us the social and psychological birth of the coming anti-Christ. Like was in the 'rosemary's baby' movie, which gave a real push of what was believed will come out of Revelation, but disguised by the revolution back then. In which Charles manson might have known all about the illumanati controlled je[w]suits and what they were influencing by way of Hollywood,music,drugs and compromised media with all the institutions that became corrupt and evil. Which fell upon our society with this song 'helter skelter' that was covered up with scapegoating the satanic panic on Charles manson. Who himself knew he was involved in a psychological holy war between good and evil that he fell into.
6. anonymous

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   Apr 15th 2017 !⃝

   I got blisters on my fingers as most Beatles fans know is Ringo screaming that at the end of the song.He had supposedly been drumming excessively all day and was developing blisters on his fingers.Good Beatles trivia !
7. anonymous

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   Sep 30th 2014 !⃝

   It's actually a slide not a roller coaster we had them when I was a kid in us you sat on a rug and slid down like 3 levels.
8. Airfghter

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   Jul 17th 2014 !⃝

   This song is simply a cover of the acclaimed Beatles song.
9. anonymous

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   Aug 10th 2013 !⃝

   Blisters on my fingers I thought was in reference from all the intense guitar playing before the fingers become calloused
10. fran1162

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    May 3rd 2013 !⃝

    there is no interpretation the definition is in undue haste, confusion, or disorder getting in each others way. the song wasnt about manson it was the other way around
11. anonymous

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    Dec 13th 2012 !⃝

    Most of you guys or right? John Lennon was shot because of this song. An yes it fits perfectly with mansions psychosis. MANSON ACTUALLY WROTE THIS SONG. It's all about the illuminati. Just like the 121212 concert for hurricane sandy!!!! Why do you think Paul was last and the first song he chose to sing was helter skelter? And Kanye had no business on the stage. Gtfo
12. anonymous

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    Sep 13th 2012 !⃝

    This about a roller coaster? I get sex out of this.
13. anonymous

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    Mar 26th 2012 !⃝

    Everyone going on, on, and on about Manson. Such a psycho is furthest from my mind when listening to this hot song. It is one of the sexiest songs ever. It not about a child's ride/white supremacy war. I am well aware of McCartney's intent with the song which is not the same as my interpretation. All I hear is obsession, frustration, sex and the whole thing repeating itself. He doesn't sound happy. And it's not just about a fairground ride. Forget the beeping psychos and stop immortalising them. Love this.
14. anonymous

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    Dec 29th 2011 !⃝

    I believe that Paul wrote this song to describe the roller coaster ride that was the Beatles life. It could be considered the first message song to John on how, even through the ups and downs of their life together they still loved each other and could climb back up to the top of the slide together. It is Paul asking "Do you or don't you want to continue with this life style?" You maybe a lover but you ain't no dancer clearly says you will always be my friend but we may never be entertainers (dancer) together again. Do you, don't you want me to make you refrences Paul and John's song writing style where one or the other would add lyrics and music to the other's song to make it better. I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you again Paul telling John I'm working very hard (coming down fast) to keep this band together, but don't let that be the wedge (don't let me break you) that forces you out of the band.
15. anonymous

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    Aug 6th 2011 !⃝

    The blisters on fingers line relates to the white palms we have from holding on so tight.
16. anonymous

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    Mar 25th 2011 !⃝

    John's haunting admission that he never listened to the words properly and it was just "noise" lends itself to the idea that bad music without rhyme or reason is in effect noise for the mentally ill. Druggie Beatles made vague metaphorical psycho music that nutjobs were liable to read anything into. One wonders if the Beatles and the White Album never existed whether Manson would have found a crazy rock music songbook to conceive his philosophy. If rock sucks, it is because it is musical noise that leads crazy people into chaos, violence and murder.

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

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    Oct 27th 2010 !⃝

    So, a few people have said Charles Manson made it sinister BECAUSE he committed murder...but that's not true.
    He was under some conspiracy theory that, to him, this song affirmed. He claimed that the black population was going to rise up and kill all of the whites. He got his Family to commit the murders (well, the "famous" ones at least...he did kill other people) for him to "show the black people how to start it"...aka, he was framing them. This song, in actuality, had nothing to do at all with Manson's delusion, in meaning. We may never have known about his obsession with this song if one of the girls didn't write it on the door of one of the murder sites in blood.
18. anonymous

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    Sep 29th 2010 !⃝

    Seriously! Get a life folks. They could have said kill the Pope or something & it really wouldn't matter. It's was just good R'n'R. So what if some idiot that was void of brain cells heard voices and decided to have others kill for him because he didn't have the balls to do it himself (sort of like Bin Laden).

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