anonymous 2008-01-18 12:33:50    

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This song was written about 4 or 5 days after Brian Epstein, their manager (the 5th Beatle) died. It is actually about industry, and corporations, and twisted business. John commented on this song saying "all these financial takeovers and things-it's just like monopoly."

anonymous 2008-02-25 12:04:45    

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They wanted to break the accusations that all their songs were deep and revolutionary. They wrote this as a nonsensical song that couldn't be interpreted, or analyzed. That's evident if you listen to it.

anonymous 2008-03-17 23:00:15    

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*SIGH* Im sorry to say this but there is an actual meaning to the song
*I am the egg man means ~Children~
*Walrus.....Ermmm

anonymous 2008-03-29 19:54:47    

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Although many may find it shameful, I never listened to a Beatles song until Julie Taymor's direction of "Across the Universe." Since, I have become slightly obsessed with deciphering the lyrics of this song and many others. I have come to the conclusion that the words are simply there to be taken like any other great work of poetry: as the reader wants it to mean. It frustrates me greatly that I cannot delve into the greatness of the author's mind, but my own little version will have to suffice. Reality is naught but perception. I think that that is the point Lennon was making.

anonymous 2008-04-08 21:29:14    

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This song was a mashed up version of three songs Paul was trying to write with the gaps filled in by Lennon from various acid trips and conversations. Most of it has no meaning what so ever. John found out that an old grade school teacher was having his students interpret Beatles lyrics. John's response is one of my favorite Beatles quotes, "Let's see those F-er's figure that one out." As for the walrus, John also said after finding out that the Walrus was the bad guy, "Oh s@#$, I picked the wrong guy."

qris24 2008-04-27 19:06:09    

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Just a note on some of the lyrics: "yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye" is an allusion too a commonly held belief in metaphysical circles that we come from the dog star Sirius which is a star system on the belt of the constellation Orion. The 'dead dog's eye' is Sirius, the 'dog' might be an allusion to God. The 'Yellow matter custard' is an allusion the primordial ooze that human life supposedly evolved of which is alluded to again in the lyrics: "Semilina Pilchard climbing up the eiffel tower". 'Semilina Pilchcard' (and you can find both these words in the dictionary) is a pudding made from low grade sardines and the 'Eiffel Tower' is actually a pun it is 'the EYEFULL tower' which is an allusion to the eye in the pyramid so this lyric is about human life evolvong out of the primordial ooze evolving up the pyramid of consciousness.

anonymous 2008-06-20 22:26:51    

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Your all idiots! HE WAS HIGH!! what else do you want?!?!?! or you were right and he's just messing with us. (:

Insight 2008-07-03 11:45:08    

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The whole song is meaningless until the final sounds which if listened to carefully say over and over "everybody's smoking pot, everybody's smoking pot, everybody's smoking pot.