Beatles: Yellow Submarine Meaning

Song Released: 1969

Yellow Submarine Lyrics

In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines.
So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found the sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our yellow submarine.
We all live...

1. anonymous

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   Jul 31st 2011 !⃝

   The Yellow Submarine is a metaphor for a perfect society.

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

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   Jul 25th 2011 !⃝

   At the time the album was released a few people thought that the Yellow submarine referred to Ian's Smith's regime in South Rhodesia - a group of people believing in living in a fantasy land. The friends next door were South Africa.
   I did hear a talk about how much of the album was about problems and how we can cope with them - in this case it is hiding under the sea and pretending all is well.
   Probably all just psychobabble but John was a very political figure and may have used a "children's song" to say something else.
3. anonymous

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   Jul 19th 2011 !⃝

   I think it's about catching the underground metro.
4. anonymous

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   Jul 4th 2011 !⃝

   I believe that u guys are taking it from two different sides,drugs or a fun song. I think it could be a combiantion. Think about it. The Beatles could have had the intention of making it a fun and enjoyable song but still be about some acid trip. You guys have to admit that the Beatles did drugs and this song sounds pretty farfetched to be about something realistic.
5. anonymous

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   Jun 28th 2011 !⃝

   A nonsense song for kids. And even kids are driven mad by the irritating plodding melody. The Beatles have a few good songs. This is not one of them.
6. anonymous

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   Jun 6th 2011 !⃝

   This song is about a man who lived in a submarine in the sea of green and partied.
7. anonymous

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   Mar 1st 2011 !⃝

   I am a patient of Beatlemania! I love the Beatles and this song. May Bieber Fever be eradicated and Beatlemania spread anew.
8. pakirri

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   Feb 8th 2011 !⃝

   Sorry about being so graphic. Ever notice the toilet seat after you use often leaves "submarines" that can be close to yellow on occassions.
   My humble understanding was that considering all the politicians, wars, etc, etc,etc specially then but also now it can often seem as if we are living inside shit.
   In other words, same as saying "we all live in a world of ..., in a world of ..., in a world of ..."
9. anonymous

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   Jan 21st 2011 !⃝

   I was told by a friend who is a Beatles (specially Lennon) fanatic, that yellow submarine was euphemistic for joint in London/Liverpool during the sixties. He was told this by a fellow fanatic from England in the early 70's.
   
   Whether the song is directly or indirectly about and drug is sheer speculation, I just like it and sang it LOUD, CLEAR and PROUD when I was a child ^.^
   
   To The Beatles, one and all. . .
   
   Thanx Guys for making my childhood a happy one!
10. anonymous

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    Dec 4th 2010 !⃝

    LMAO to the top Comment. The beatles...sober?
    LSD changes the way your mind thinks. you see life totally different after, in a good way. But even if he was sober, its the acid that helped with the trippy lyrics or whatever you want to call it.
11. anonymous

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    Nov 29th 2010 !⃝

    Drugs baby drugs HA!
12. imdifferent

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    Nov 23rd 2010 !⃝

    yellow submarine is a type of marjuana, so when it says "Lived a man who sailed to sea
    And he told us of his life
    In the land of submarines.
    So we sailed up to the sun
    Till we found the sea of green
    And we lived beneath the waves"
    there probably saying that they either found someone that sells marjuana or someone else that smokes marjuana and smokes yellow submarine, so they started smoking it. It could also mean that when they "sailed up to the sun Till we found the sea of green" they went looking for whoever sells yellow submarine, hence "green" which is the color of marjuana
13. tetter868

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    Nov 13th 2010 !⃝

    They needed a song for Ringo to sing. And not taking themselves too seriously, they had fun creating something new that didn't sound like everyone else. They even tried to make it sound like he was singing underwater by wrapping a condom around a mic and submerging it in water, but it didn't work. They were making EMI a ton of money and they were allowed to do whatever they wanted, as long as George Martin went along with it. He was the intuitive genius behind the Beatles and everyone knew it. In those days, creativity was not crushed by corporate profit strategies. It was five or six guys in a room with a tape recorder making records and sometimes releasing them the next day.
14. anonymous

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    Nov 9th 2010 !⃝

    some one says it was John's idea? But then what about Paul who wrote it for children, kind of a story to tell at bed time.
15. anonymous

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    Aug 16th 2010 !⃝

    The yellow submarine is saturated with the LSD experience.

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