Can Anybody Figure out What This Song Means?

[acs26]

I remember one day my dad had this song playing when I was ten or eleven. At the time, I always thought I was too young to know what it meant, but in the recent years I went back to it, and still had no idea. The only thing I can think about is, "Mindfuck", at the fullest.

I Am The Walrus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42luHhrsNhg - Beatles
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I think I get when he says, "kicking Edgar Allen Poe", because Edgar's suspected death was cooping. But I have no idea.

[bennett616]

I think it is what is now known as a troll...... At the time The Beatles where the center of numerous speculations and theories (Paul is not actually Paul..:/) that they though "lets just take the piss and give them something to question". I think it is an amazing troll as people still get mindfucked by it in 2013!

Also feel free to add it to Best Music to Listen to on Drugs Guide <<OFFICIAL>> - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=214217.0 ;P

Andy B

[adamstgBit]

1) take drugs
2) write song
3) profit   

[myrkul]

1) take drugs
2) write song
3) profit   

Yup. The song isn't a mindfuck as much as it is "come along with me on my acid trip."

[acs26]

I think it is what is now known as a troll...... At the time The Beatles where the center of numerous speculations and theories (Paul is not actually Paul..:/) that they though "lets just take the piss and give them something to question". I think it is an amazing troll as people still get mindfucked by it in 2013!

Also feel free to add it to Best Music to Listen to on Drugs Guide <<OFFICIAL>> - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=214217.0 ;P

Andy B

Oh, okay. I heard about school children that would look into songs, so they just made this song with random things that popped into their heads.

[Mike Christ]

Yeah it's just a wild song.  Like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds; drugs were the hip thing in popular America at the time.  Nowadays, I think insanity has taken that spot.

Anyway, you'd be better off asking what Lennon's "Imagine" is referencing.

[odolvlobo]

You can't just dismiss the song as drug-induced nonsense. You have to look at it as musical poetry. It is a great song and there are a lot of things going on in it. Anyway, here are some explanations for the various elements in the song: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=138


Here is something similar by Lewis Carroll that you might also think is drug-induced nonsense, but it is really poetic genius:

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

[mprep]

beats me

Yup. Same here. No idea.