anonymous 2006-12-18 23:58:56    

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It's about a man and a walrus

Thorn495 2007-01-09 15:49:38    

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We all go through the same feelings in life. "I am he, as you are me.." We're all equal.

We've divided ourselves.

This saddens Lennon.

I think he's just making a joke on society's dull game. "I am the walrus.. koo koo catchu!" We can make our own realities. Yes, pyschadelics opened that up in us. As long as our intentions are good, you won't get hung up.

walrus186 2007-02-04 19:30:15    

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John Lennon was amused by the fact that professors at one of his old schools were analyzing the lyrics to Beatles songs, like "Eleanor Rigby," etc. So he decided to write a song that would confuse them, and that had no meaning, but looked like it might.

ddurr 2007-02-17 12:02:31    

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what the hell?
"goo goo g'joob"?
what the hell is that?
its "COO COO CACHOO"...

anonymous 2007-02-20 23:05:10    

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Okay, this song is too cracked up to be written on crack. It's like the saying, "too good to be true." This was just written to get any frustration out of themselves and tick off critics. Haha, good job Beatles, you finaly got us!

anonymous 2007-02-21 22:23:47    

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Hey guys, 2007-02-20 23:05:10 is right. I think this is the first time that the Beatles have ever shoved it right back in our faces. Dang, I feel awful all of a sudden.

anonymous 2007-03-04 09:06:11    

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When John realised people were interpreting his lyrics he wrote a song to spite them... I am the walrus. because any true beatles fan knew that John was non conformative. I was told this by a beatles expert that when he finished the song he said; "let the f****** work that one out then".

so maybe we should respect the legend of John Lennon and accept the song in all its greatness and forget all this 'inner meaning' of the song business. Rest in peace John X.

anonymous 2007-04-02 21:40:03    

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I read somewhere that John was on an acid trip and Paul wrote down all that he said...idk

anonymous 2007-04-09 14:59:12    

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You people have obviously not been on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

Every word any genius writes is meaningful. Every punctuation. Everything. The beatles write endless metaphors and hidden meanings.

This song is perticularly attentive to the "paul is dead" theory. Read it. Be enlightened.

anonymous 2007-04-10 20:19:42    

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Lennon was saying that Jesus is like a walrus. as sort of making fun of the fact that jesus can be god and human but not human and he can be god but not god and can be in you but isn't in you.

anonymous 2007-04-15 17:08:31    

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There is so much meaning in this song. John was playing with those who were trying to read into every lyric. At first glance, the lyrics are nonsensical, but if you look deeper, you can see a bigger picture. He is talking about the hippie movement, and how it was moving away from the ideals that they started with. He’s crying. In the 4th verse, he is giving his view on free love. What is “yellow matter custard?” In the 6th verse, the expert texpert choking smokers are the stoned college, intellectual hippies and the jokers are authority figures laughing at them and their ideals. This is a direct warning letting the students know that not everybody is listening to them in a way that they might expect. Lennon is warning them that like him, the establishment can use their ideas against them. In the last verse, “Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna” Lennon admitted that the line describing a penguin singing Hare Krishna was a conscious criticism of the spiritual naivety of putting all your eggs in one basket. If you look through the lens of the establishment, the song is nonsense. If you look through the lens of the hippies, the song is a warning.

anonymous 2007-04-15 19:43:00    

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This song is about John Lennon's reservations about being a Beatle. Remember In "The Walrus and the Carpenter" The Walrus is a fraud who lies to and then devours innocent clams. The Song opens "I am he as you are he and we are all together" That lyric is a comment on how the band was seen as a unit rather than independent people. The repetition of "I am the walrus" means I am a fraud I am a fraud! When John latter wrote "The walrus was Paul" he was not saying "Hey fans Paul died two years ago in a car crash, sorry bout the coverup" He was saying Paul is the fraud not me.

anonymous 2007-05-24 20:27:05    

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I'm with a few of you... I'm pretty sure he wrote this just to screw with us all in believing it had some deep meaning. Whether he was on an acid trip or not I don't really care but I doubt this song has any world changing meaning behind it.

JacobJames 2007-07-06 12:18:16    

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Sorry folks. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this song, as well as the rest of the songs released after Revolver and prior to Let It Be have roots in the Bible. What do ya think - all that religious crap was for show?

Anyway - here is Daniel 7:5 - 5 "And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, 'Get up and eat your fill of flesh!'

This is the passage from which the notion of 'walrus' stems from. There is actually a very tangible meaning to all of what they did but not everyone can see it because everyone does not know how to look for it.

Regarding the clues in Glass Onion about the walrus - they also carry with them a deep profound meaning. Well, I gotta go - my best advice is that you should read Revelation 11:3 and see where it leads you. JacobIsaiah445@yahoo.com

anonymous 2007-08-09 18:44:15    

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Paul was supposedly the walrus...
There was a conspiracy where Paul was supposed to have died. There was a picture in a magazine of Paul and when you held it up to the light, there was a line through his neck. Another part was a license plate on Abbey Road that had a number (I can't remember what it was) and the theory was that if Paul was still alive, that's how old he would be.

Clearly this 'conspiracy' isn't true, as Paul is alive to this day!!

anonymous 2007-10-06 15:24:28    

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WHAT THE F!?!? Though it says in the lyrics goo goo gajoob, It is really ku ku kachu which is an old painting done by some artist I forget who but either way, The painting is entitled "KU KU KACHU THE EGGMAN" That solves the eggman problem.....

anonymous 2007-11-06 23:18:29    

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I've had many a conversation about this song with my father, a Beatles expert, and a great interpreter of songs. He mentioned a lot of what everyone before has said, but he also said one other thing I haven't seen yet:

Supposedly, Lennon got a call from one of his fellow song-writing friends who said (not word-for-word, of course): "Hey, John! I have some new songs I've written; let's say we meet up and we can share my songs with whatever you've got!"

But Mr. Lennon didn't have anything prepared at the moment. So instead of just sitting down and writing an album-full of songs, he decided to leave his typewriter on the table. Every time he walked past it, he'd write another line to the song. In this manner, "I Am the Walrus" was made.

anonymous 2007-11-08 22:27:48    

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This song is supposedly written about Paul's "death". "Eggman" symbolized Humpty Dumpty and "walrus" symbolizes death in some Scandinavian countries. "Goo Goo Goo Joo" are said to be Humpty Dumpty's last words.

But then again, it could mean anything. (:

johnbasedow211 2007-12-10 23:13:12    

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ITS AN LSD TRIP. Lennon references lucy in the sky which has been stated by Lennon to be an LSD trip. The end.

anonymous 2007-12-27 13:21:01    

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John wrote this song to make everyone freak out and try and figure out the meaning. It really doesn't have one. It's just gibberish. He wrote it to confuse people.