Beatles: I am the Walrus Meaning
Song Released: 1967
I am the Walrus Lyrics
see how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly …
i'm cryin’
sittin on a corn flake, waitin on the van to come.
corporation tee-shirt,stupid bloody tuesday man you been a...
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It means absolutely nothing, which makes it genius. The Beatles wrote this song to mean nothing, and nothing more. "SITTING ON A CORN FLAKE, WAITING FOR THE VAN TO COME!" I heard that a classroom was assigned to interpret the meaning to a song, and some kid wrote the assignment to the Beatles. Their answer? THIS SONG!
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None of it really make much sense but the line "yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" make less sense than I thought possible. That and it kind of grosses me out. Anyone care to speculate further (no seriously, I'm not just being a smartalic, somebody tell me what the f##k it means).
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This song was written to confuse people like us who interpret Beatles songs.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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Just a note on some of the lyrics: "yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" is an allusion too a commonly held belief in metaphysical circles that we come from the dog star Sirius which is a star system on the belt of the constellation Orion. The 'dead dog's eye' is Sirius, the 'dog' might be an allusion to God. The 'Yellow matter custard' is an allusion the primordial ooze that human life supposedly evolved of which is alluded to again in the lyrics: "Semilina Pilchard climbing up the eiffel tower". 'Semilina Pilchcard' (and you can find both these words in the dictionary) is a pudding made from low grade sardines and the 'Eiffel Tower' is actually a pun it is 'the EYEFULL tower' which is an allusion to the eye in the pyramid so this lyric is about human life evolvong out of the primordial ooze evolving up the pyramid of consciousness.
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This song was a mashed up version of three songs Paul was trying to write with the gaps filled in by Lennon from various acid trips and conversations. Most of it has no meaning what so ever. John found out that an old grade school teacher was having his students interpret Beatles lyrics. John's response is one of my favorite Beatles quotes, "Let's see those F-er's figure that one out." As for the walrus, John also said after finding out that the Walrus was the bad guy, "Oh s@#$, I picked the wrong guy."
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Although many may find it shameful, I never listened to a Beatles song until Julie Taymor's direction of "Across the Universe." Since, I have become slightly obsessed with deciphering the lyrics of this song and many others. I have come to the conclusion that the words are simply there to be taken like any other great work of poetry: as the reader wants it to mean. It frustrates me greatly that I cannot delve into the greatness of the author's mind, but my own little version will have to suffice. Reality is naught but perception. I think that that is the point Lennon was making.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This song was written about 4 or 5 days after Brian Epstein, their manager (the 5th Beatle) died. It is actually about industry, and corporations, and twisted business. John commented on this song saying "all these financial takeovers and things-it's just like monopoly."
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Basically Lennon had a couple different songs that he was trying to write, inspired by different acid trips. He got a letter from a fan saying that his teacher was having them interpret the lyrics, so he combined the songs and made a totally nonsensical one. He remarked to a friend, "Let the f*****s work that one out."
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