Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever Meaning

Song Released: 1967

Strawberry Fields Forever Lyrics

Let me take you down, ’cause I’m going to (too.)
Strawberry fields
Nothing is real, and
Nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone...

1. Hess21

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   Mar 18th 2006 !⃝

   I believe the song is about taking life for what it is. One should not hold on to small, irrelevant, and unimportant challenges or worries. "Living is easy with eyes closed. Misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me." This verse sums my theory up pretty well. It's saying that life in theory is extremely easy if the only worry in life is to live well and pleasantly. The final line of this verse is saying that he/she has realized not to worry anymore. "No one I think is in my tree. I mean it must be high or low". This line is comparing a tree to a pure and comfortable place. This place, though, changes according to each individual person (home, family, beach, etc.). In conclusion, Strawberry Fields Forever is a song created to make a person reflect on life and understand that the worries and fears of a person are usually unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
2. CroftD1

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   Mar 14th 2006 !⃝

   Penny lane wasn't John it was Paul! But yes it is a real place.
   Strawberry feild was a place John would play as a kid and he was raised by his Aunt not an orphanage. The song is about growing up, and the joys of being a kid, how life is so easy. I think it does a great job of capturing that aspect. The music is one of the most unique pieces. If you listin to it is almost a reverse of the traditional structure of a rock band make-up. The music is almost entirely a drum solo and yet amazingly it not only works but is a really nice compliment to the lyrics. This is one of my fav John 'poems'.
3. anonymous

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   Feb 19th 2006 !⃝

   Strawberry Fields is a retirement home in Liverpoole...hence ..."strawberry fields forever..." Also some of the confusion in the song is based on how confusing everything is when you are older and unable to take care of yourself.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
4. SiliasJones

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   Feb 4th 2006 !⃝

   The song features the view of a confused orphan, as Strawberry Fields is an orphanage. Lennon wrote the song while acting in the movie, "How I Won The War".
   
   Examples of the confusion are below.
   
   "I think, I know, I mean, a yes, but's alright..."
   
   "No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low."
5. anonymous

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   Dec 17th 2005 !⃝

   The song deals with John coming into adolescence and finding where he belongs. "living is easy with eyes closed..." says how easy things were when he was a young naive boy. "Noone I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low" means, nobody is like me. I'm either a genius or a fool. "Nothing to get hung about" is a reference to something John said to his Aunt Mimi. When she used to get angry at John for going to Strawberry Fields, he used to retort my saying "What are they going to do? Hang me?"
6. anonymous

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   Oct 18th 2005 !⃝

   This song, along with Penny Lane, is basically about John Lennon's childhood. Strawberry Fields was the name of a frequent hang-out for children in John's neighbourhood.

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