John Lennon’s Beautiful Word Salad
Profound or nonsense?
Lennon once said he wrote I Am The Walrus deliberately to fuck with the people who spent all their time interpreting Beatles songs. I think he did that more than once. He wrote fascinating, beautiful, and sometimes deliberately ugly word salad.
Eat your word salad. It’s good for you.
I Am The Walrus
I am he as you are he, as you are me and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly
I’m crying
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g’joob
Mister City policeman sitting pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run
I’m crying, I’m crying
I’m crying, I’m crying
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g’joob
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan from standing in the english rain
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g’joob, g’goo goo g’joob
Expert textpert choking smokers
Don’t you think the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snied
I’m crying
Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar-Allan-Poe
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo-goo g’joob, g’goo goo g’joob
Goo goo g’joob, g’goo goo g’joob, g’goo…
Here they are
The Beatles!
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon
I Am the Walrus lyrics © Sony/atv Tunes Llc, Mpl Communications Inc
Strawberry Fields
Let me take you down
’Cause I’m going to 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, but it all works out
It doesn’t matter much to me
Let me take you down
’Cause I’m going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
No one I think is in my tree
I mean, it must be high or low
That is, you can’t, you know, tune in, but it’s alright
That is, I think it’s not too bad
Let me take you down
’Cause I’m going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
Always, no sometimes, think it’s me
But you know, I know when it’s a dream
I think I know, I mean a yes
But it’s all wrong
That is, I think I disagree
Let me take you down
’Cause I’m going to strawberry fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry fields forever
Strawberry fields forever
Strawberry fields forever
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon
Strawberry Fields Forever lyrics © Sony/atv Tunes Llc, Harrisongs Ltd, Mpl Communications Inc
All You Need Is Love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done (love)
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung (love)
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game (love)
It’s easy
Nothing you can make that can’t be made (love)
No one you can save that can’t be saved (love)
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time (love)
It’s easy
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
All you need is love (whoa)
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Nothing you can know that isn’t known (love)
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown (love)
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be, it’s easy
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon
All You Need Is Love lyrics © Sony/atv Tunes Llc, Shapiro Bernstein & Co Inc, Mpl Communications Inc
Come Together
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Here come old flat-top, he come groovin’ up slowly
He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker, he just do what he please
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola
He say, “I know you, you know me”
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
He bag production, he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Right!
Come, come, come, come, come
He roller-coaster, he got early warnin’
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He say, “One and one and one is three”
Got to be good-lookin’ ’cause he’s so hard to see
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Ugh!
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Oh, come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon
Come Together lyrics © Sony/atv Tunes Llc
Across the Universe
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me
Jai guru deva, om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox they
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe
Jai guru deva, om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing
Through my open ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe
Jai guru deva, om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva *
* Sanskrit phrase meaning "All Glory to the Divine Teacher.”
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon
Across the Universe lyrics © Sony/atv Tunes Llc
I Dig A Pony
I-I-I-I-I dig a pony
Well, you can celebrate anything you want
Yes, you can celebrate anything you want
Oh!
I-I-I-I-I do a road hog
Well, you can penetrate any place you go
Yes, you can penetrate any place you go
I told you so, all I want is you!
Everything has got to be just like you want it to
Because
I-I-I-I-I pick a moon dog
Well you can radiate everything you are
Yes, you can radiate everything you are
Oh, now
I-I-I-I-I roll a stoney
Well, you can imitate everyone you know
Yes, you can imitate everyone you know
I told you so, all I want is you!
Everything has got to be just like you want it to
Because
Oh
I-I-I-I-I feel the wind blow
Well you can indicate everything you see
Yes, you can indicate everything you see
Oh, now
I-I-I-I-I load a lorry
Well you can syndicate any boat you row
Yes, you can syndicate any boat you row
I told you so, all I want is you!
Everything has got to be just like you want it to
Because
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon
Dig a Pony lyrics © Sony/atv Tunes Llc
Author’s note: Perhaps it is simply rude of me to call it word salad.
It is probably better to just call it poetry.
