Beatles - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds Song Meanings Lyrics:
Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with k...
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 Top Rated Interpretation
2006-04-25 18:30:45
It was said before that this song is a mirror to I am The Walrus. This is sort of correct, but it's really that I Am The Walrus reffers to THIS. I'm sure that this had some socialist means, because I Am The Walrus did, and it refers to Lucy in the Sky in that song.
I'm sure most of you are saying "it's not about LSD" and those saying "ITS SOOO ABOUT LSD" have both probably never experienced this stuff. I'm SURE he was either high, or drawing from past experiences of being high when he wrote it, but it odsnt mean that's what the whole things about.
Being a lyricist, and a strange one at that, I know where you get these things from. Sometimes ill be writing a song and say to myself "hmm I remember that one time when..." and make a small refference to something, but not make the whole song about it. It probably had refferences to Julians picture, and lucy herself, but he was clearly high or thinking of haullucinations when he wrote it.
Kaleidascope eyes gives it away. I was thinking today "when you look through a Kaleidascope, you see these shimmery things swirling around (diamonds) and then he thought about Lucy, being in this kaleidascope. Something he might have seen when high on LSD.
So look, it's based on the picture, but inspired by a trip. That's the short story. But I'm sure that everything means somthing else, even "rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies".... Its all metaphoric and based on SOMETHING. That's how the brain works.
Just don't assume it was scrambled down on paper randomly while tripping, but also don't assume that those crazy lyrics where written while clean for a week.
-Matt Vituccio
anonymous
2006-08-25 20:07:02
This song is about the pic that julian drew but he was on lsd when he seen the pic, and that's how the song came about.
jo1969
2006-11-15 12:18:45
It's all been said above, the lsd thing is total crap.
anonymous
2006-11-20 13:59:26
the LSD is NOT total crap. Originally, when the beatles were asked what it was about, John ( or Paul or whoever it was) fed them crap about a picture julien drew. In 2005, Paul admitted it was about acid. (I read this in Rolling Stone I think, it was some magazine like that).
anonymous
2006-11-20 14:01:37
its the person from the last one. Someone up there was right, it was inspired by this picture but it was ABOUT being high on acid.
anonymous
2006-12-01 02:34:16
Is there a reason why a song must have only one meaning? Or why the entire song must be based around and pertaining to only ONE subject? Do you honestly think that it's feasible that a song, usually have three verses and two or more chorus, is going to be so singularly oriented that it would all be only about ONE specific thing?
I can see something beautiful and appreciate it in an artistic sense, while at the same time be reminded of a childhood memory, and at the same time think, "This would be really cool on acid."
I think that the kid's picture thing is probably true. I also think that the Allison in Wonderland thing probably has some merit. The song is definately very colorful and very fanciful with some crazy imagery; it's a very skillful and detailed imagination... That could very possibly be about or inspired by LSD.
(Wow, this'd be cool on acid.)
;)
anonymous
2006-12-07 15:57:09
I don't care what everyone says, it is ridiculous, it is inspired by a picture Julian drew, but it is obvious that there was some connection to LSD.
Acid people, Acid!
anonymous
2006-12-16 20:23:48
This is simply a song about LSD. They couldn't sing about drugs at that time, so obviously they needed an acronym: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I haven't heard of it being inspired by a picture, but it seems to describe all the weird things you see when you're high. And the Beatles were always high.
anonymous
2006-12-29 17:05:50
you who think it s about drugs are stupid go read any real Beatles book and you'll know that it really was Julian Lennon's picture that inspired it
anonymous
2007-01-15 22:51:04
Facist American Bible freaks. Just because you want the Beatles to be a pretty little gospel band doesn't mean they are. The song does pertain to Julian's picture (see the wiki on the song.) However, it also openly connected with the psychedelic genre and acid itself. (Anyone who knows jack about music or has been tripping could tell you this.)
anonymous
2007-01-18 05:09:09
These lyrics are how someone who has never tripped on acid would describe how they imagine a trip would be like - A planned co-incidence inspired by Julian's drawing - The song describing the true acid experience is "Strawberry Fields Forever" as anybody who has been there will immediately recognise
anonymous
2007-01-29 21:26:23
This is one of the Beatles better songs. Yes it is about an LSD trip and that is obvious, but it goes much deeper than that. Most importantly it is describes a chance meeting with a beautiful girl and love at first sight. After that he stops and notices everything for the first time. The importance of thier meaning in the world. No matter how insucnifcant they still have a meaning. How people take for granted the little things and looking outside the box. The best part is in the end he bumps back in to her proving that fate does exsist.
anonymous
2007-02-05 18:32:15
Somebody above was saying how the song was SOOOOO about LSD. They said, and I quote, that John fed the media some stupid crap about a drawing and that years later, Paul admitted the "truth", a.k.a. LSD!!!! ITS ALL ABOUT LSD!!!!
This song has gone down in pop culture history because its a work of art, and not all that mainstream crap that was going on in the 60's (*cough*beachboys*cough*). This song is a combination of lyrical genius, a drawing done by julian lennon at age three, and the Beatle's whole drug thing (yes, I admit they wrote SOME songs about acid). Now please realize, people, that you are ALL right (except you stupid incredibly close minded idiots bent on destroying the reputation of one of the greatest musical groups of all time).
-A Sensible Person
anonymous
2007-02-11 02:48:36
yeah, of course the LSD thing is bs. It was derived from a picture of a girl with diamonds in the sky...not crystal meth, diamonds. Though I can see it both ways seeing as it says she's so incredibly high and LSD was a popular drug in that time period. but I'm fairly convinced that it's about the girl in the picture. Especially since the majority of the lyrics are positive and give off nice mental portraits. "tangerine trees" "cellophane flowers of yellow and greeen." knd of compensates for that small LSD factor which is uncertain and could just be coincidental, where as the lyrics were written on purpose.
anonymous
2007-02-11 16:19:43
Who cares what it's about!!! LSD or Julian's picture, it doesn't matter! In the end all that's important is that an INCREDIBLE song was written! So quit your bitching and enjoy the music!!!!
anonymous
2007-02-11 23:38:57
This guy's an idiot above me. That's the point of the site douche bag.
anonymous
2007-02-13 00:10:21
I get that that's what the site is all about asshole, I'm not a moron. All I'm saying is that song is really good and it pisses me off when people argue over and over with really no proof that it's completely about drugs and that the Beatles were totally tripping when they wrote it. They were great musicians, so don't you think they could have written something that good sober?
Oh and I'm aware that Paul said that it was all about drugs 30 years after they broke up but Paul, at the same time, had a lot of bad blood with John. He even went so far as to change the song authors listed on the albums from "Lennon & McCartney" to "McCartney & Lennon". It may be that he said all that just to take credit away from John.
anonymous
2007-02-15 01:55:35
Okay, well that could be right and you could've have posted it. However, you have just as much proof to that as anyone else commenting...So if your giving me another explanation about the song while accusing people of making blind assumptions, then that's hypocritical. I'm seriously sorry, for that comment. It was offensive and based on nothing but a lyric critique. *waves white flag.*
anonymous
2007-02-16 12:11:09
Did you know that Paul only did acid because Lennon and them were doing it? it was written somewhere that Paul said that he never had the intention of doing acid but when the band became known for the drug usage he really had no choice but to do it, I can't find the write words but I'll use "fit in", he did it to fit in with the rest of the beatles. also at recording sessions Paul wanted to rush threw all of lennons songs so he could get to his instead. now don't get me wrong, Paul is badass I love the music he makes to this day but I gotta say, he was the bitch of the beatles. and bout the song, listen to the lyrics man, like someone wrote above, the song is displaying a park scene perhaps were lennon saw lucy, the girl his son talked about, and no one can know for sure. no point in arguing about it. Serously the only way you'd really know what the song was about would be to ask lennon and well that's kinda hard lookin at the state that he's in. Hidden in a little jar that stupid ass yoko won't even give his family. and lennon was afraid of being cremated and it was against his familys will to creamate him. yoko is a bitch and can't sing wortha shit.
on behalf of me,
i hope I passed the audition
anonymous
2007-02-18 05:37:20
This song is definitely about LSD were "lucy in the sky" came from could easy be from the picture but that's not the point.
The song is about on lsd if you take enough you can go any were and be any were and he's just describing a trip. bit by bit...
I think its a beautiful song and the lyrics produce a lot of pictures in your mind very nice
brielle
2007-02-24 12:51:50
Nobody can say lucy in the sky with diamonds isn't about drugs, because it most definitley is. John Lennon even admitted to it. Everything that they talk about in the song are the symptoms and what they were experiencing when getting high off LSD.
Lucy in the
Sky with
Diamonds...... LSD
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