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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   Jun 26th 2007 !⃝

   I think yellow submarine is about Valium. When Valium 1st came on the scene it was yellow. That's what Mick Jagger was talking about in "Mother's Little Helper" when he mentioned her "little yellow pills".

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2. anonymous

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   Jun 19th 2007 !⃝

   Who cares? it's a good song, listen to it, fell good about it. DIG IT! Ohand that guy who said "Yellow submarine is street for pot" is a fucking dumbass!
3. anonymous

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   Jun 13th 2007 !⃝

   Having the Beatles on a song interpretation site is completely pointless. Lennon blatantly states that he writes songs that don't make sense just to throw off critics. He also thought it was funny when people started interpreting his nonsense lyrics to have meaning. That was The Beatles' style. Nice try, everyone, but you fell into the genius mind trap laid by The Beatles.
4. anonymous

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   Apr 15th 2007 !⃝

   This song is about a childhood. There was an old man who the neighborhood children went to for stories. They spent a lot of time there and really felt like they were in the stories. That's all there was to it, a story of a childhood.
5. taka

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   Mar 31st 2007 !⃝

   Simple: this is a song about a yellow submarine. It was written during a very extremely LSD trip, and during this trip they saw a Twinkie and they thought of the name yellow submarine! tah dahhh

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6. anonymous

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   Mar 8th 2007 !⃝

   This song wasn't completely about drugs, but it is based on an acid trip... The first time John tried LSD, a dentist had slipped it into his coffee at a dinner party.. johns house was really far from where he was, and he was in no state to drive trippin and all, so he went to the place george (harrison if you guys don't know who I'm talkin about) was staying... He saw the house, and said it looked like a big yellow submarine. george thought it was funny and remembered that for a while.
7. anonymous

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   Mar 6th 2007 !⃝

   Yellow Submarine is street for pot.

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8. anonymous

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   Mar 4th 2007 !⃝

   I think it is about Paul`s so called death.The Submarine is a casket,the Sea of green is a graveyard.Which everyone is going to be someday "And our friends are all aboard,
   Many more of them live next door" graves are next to eachother "next door".I don`t know maybe not.

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9. anonymous

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   Feb 16th 2007 !⃝

   i've heard that the yellow submarines are supposed to represent caskets and the sea of green is the ground, sky of blue eh well the sky haha. and when they're talking about we sailed into the sun till we found the sea of green; we lived our life. and then they passed away and are buried in their yellow submarines (caskets) in the land of submarines (grave yard). butt I dunno I'm sure its not right there's tons of better explanations I just didn't see this one up so I thought I'd throw it out there.

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10. anonymous

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    Feb 11th 2007 !⃝

    WHY IS EVERYTHING ABOUT DRUGS TO YOU PEOPLE???? God Forbid a band just write a song because they like the way it sounds. Maybe, just maybe The Beatles were great artists who could make great music on their own. Do you people not think they were capable of writing good lyrics sober?????
11. anonymous

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    Jan 8th 2007 !⃝

    I think submarine represents all the pressure they were under when they wrote the song and sea of green represents money.
12. anonymous

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    Dec 18th 2006 !⃝

    A happy-go-lucky fun song. Song starts off talking of a man that lived in town where they were born.They enjoyed his stories of adventure and life on the seas.
    "And the band begins to play, We all live in a yellow submerine." Seems to make statement they are living their life of adventure, playing in the band.
    Great song.
13. anonymous

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    Dec 7th 2006 !⃝

    Just because the beatles did drugs doesn't make them a bad band, everyone in the sixties and early seventies did drugs, get over it.
14. anonymous

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    Oct 19th 2006 !⃝

    Ok! This song is most certainly not about drugs! I've read plenty of articles interviewing the band members..Just believe me people! It's actually just meant to be a kids song. It's awesome..Yay!
    
    I <3 the beatles
    and I wanted to clear that up..
    :d
15. messiah_says

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    Oct 10th 2006 !⃝

    It's a song about seeking meaning, purpose, happiness, and inner peace in yourself. "sailing to the sun," is a socratic representation of enlightenment. The sailor describes a far away mystical land that is here already. "a sky of blue, a sea of green." the song says all that you need is that to live your "life of ease." there's nothing in a submarine that's particulairly fun or special, but everything described s here. We are the "yellow" submarines. We are all living in them.

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