What is the meaning of the Beatles song I Am the Walrus?

Answer 1

John Lennon was drawing on "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll, not realizing at the time that the poem was a comment on rich versus poor. "Yellow matter custard" was from a nonsense rhyme he'd loved as a boy. "Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna" was a knock on people who oversimplified their beliefs, or "put all their faith in one idol".

According to The Beatles book "A Hard Day's Write", "I Am The Walrus" is an amalgamation of three separate songs that were not quite enough to make it on their own.

John Lennon was inspired by a distant police siren for the first part, the second part was a pastoral melody conceived when John was relaxing at home in his garden, and third was a nonsense piece. It sounds all very credible for John Lennon and, fully aware that it was a compilation of disjointed themes and ideas, Lennon was reputed to have said, "Let the ******* work that one out", referring to the music critics.

The only serious line in the whole song is the first one, "I am he, as you are he, as you are me and we are all together", which is "a vision of the unity of all things" according to Lennon.

Answer 2

in i am the walrus some people say that it is Paul McCartney who is the walrus because i am the walrus is said to be a death ceremony which goes along with the conspiracy that Paul McCartney is dead.

I read that John Lennon was the walrus because in his 1970 song "God" he said "I was the walrus, but now I am John".

One of John Lennon's friends was the Eggman.

Although some think it is Paul McCartney.

Answer 3

Mostly nothing. The walrus was from The Walrus and The Carpenter, a poem by Lewis Carroll, and the third verse was written after John Lennon found out that an English teacher at his old school was making his students analyse Beatles songs. John took an old playground rhyme and added some more ideas to confuse people. John said that the "elementary penguin" was referring to Hare Krishna.

Basically, it's nonsense.

Answer 4

that you are a

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