I Am The Walrus

[kentuck]

[Mister Ed]

1. "No You're Not!", said Little Nicola. n/t

[kentuck]

2. "Yes, I Am !"

said the Walrus.

[Jeebo]

3. Thanks for posting that, my favorite Beatles song ever.

Of the many truly GREAT Beatles songs, by the greatest band EVER, nobody else is even close.

Somebody on the Beatles channel on Sirius/XM offered an explanation for the weird, apparently nonsensical lyrics to this song. He said that a lot of people were trying to ascribe all kinds of deep, profound meanings to the lyrics in Beatles songs, and John Lennon tried to foil that by writing these crazy lyrics.

If that was John Lennon's purpose, he failed. At first, way back 55 years or so ago on hearing this song for the first time, I was puzzled by these lyrics, but then, on subsequent multiple listenings, those weird lyrics actually started to make a crazy sort of sense. To me, at least. Now, listening to this song, and I DO still listen to it often, those lyrics actually seem to be right, to go with this song just perfectly, even brilliantly.

If music is a form of nonverbal communication, and I think it is, then words that go with it should complement it perfectly, and these words do.

I think "I Am The Walrus" is a fucking BRILLIANT song. I have never been father to a daughter, but if I had been, and if I had been the one who got to choose her name, I would have named her Semolina Pilchard. First name and middle name.

-- Ron

[kentuck]

4. :-)__@

[Glorfindel]

5. "Sit you down, Father; rest you."

I have always loved "I Am the Walrus." I consider it a musical masterpiece, from the elementary penguin to the kicking of poor old Edgar Allan Poe. Nobody ever mentions the chant that ends the song beginning at 3:28 - "everybody's fucked up, fucked up, fucked up..."

And in the song "Glass Onion," John says, "Here's another clue for you all: the Walrus was Paul."

Curiouser and curiouser!

[kentuck]

6. The end of the song is interesting.