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
2008-03-27 01:12:09
There are a LOT of reviews of this song already and usually I wouldn't have added another one but it seems like 90 percent of the other reviews were childish and not really helpful there are several opinions I'm not denying that there were a few good points made on what the song is really about, but NOT one person stopped to think. Maybe this song is written to make people think not everything has a clear easy to understand meaning. If the Beatles wanted this song to have a clear meaning they wouldn't have written "rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies" The Beatles most likely wrote this song about more than one thing and know one except them knows what this song is truly about.
anonymous
2008-04-09 16:02:13
Okay, this is to every single person who has ever submitted an interpretation for this song: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
I have read every single interpretation on this page and, I seem to notice the following pattern:
LSD
NOT LSD
LSD
NOT LSD
BOTH
NOT LSD
LSD
I AM THE WALRUS
LSD
LSD
NOT LSD
etc...
I mean, COME ON! I think that we have all come to the common conclusion that this song is BASED on Julian's drawing of Lucy O'Donnell, but is INSPIRED by LSD. Period. Case Closed. Can we please stop adding interpretation after interpretation of the same shit?
The basic concept is that this song is a work of art, and should be appreciated as such, not thrown into a discussion forum where almost four years after the initial interpretations, we're still arguing about the same shit that was debated about thirty years ago!
Point Blank - I love this song, and anyone that ventures onto this page loves it to, so there: common ground. Let's get some confetti and pizza and party, already!
- A Beatles Fan
cataractbabe
2008-05-28 10:35:28
Well, i look at the meaning of this song a little differently then others. I do see how this could be referenced to Julian and his picture of Lucy, but I don't believe it was all about that. It seems to be a refabrication of a recently taken trip from a child's point of view and about a girl who sees things differently. When you look through a kaleidoscope you see everything in different shapes and arrangements. I take this song to be about Lucy and how she sees everything. Saying "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes" could mean that she has beautiful eyes or sees things as through a kaleidoscope. Juliens picture and the families knowing of how Lucy sees everything plays a part in all of it. The hole thing seems to be lucy's view of a wonderful, child-like world. lucy either had a very immaculate imagination that led this to be written or they just used her name. never the less I do believe that he was not completely sober while writing this, but Julian and his picture were a great inspiration for it.
anonymous
2008-06-20 22:52:09
To you IDIOTS who got this from wikipedia or a documentery, GO TO HELL! to the rest of you, HE WAS ON LSD!)
comalovee
2008-06-27 00:13:58
It still irritates me when people say this song is purely about LSD, even after John himself said that the song had almost nothing to do with drugs, rather the painting his son made. Sure, they used drugs. But they're not *that* obsessed with 'em.
m320753
2008-06-30 10:57:52
This song is only about fitting into the movie "yellow submarine" which was a very intense movie if you put aside drug notions, yes it's about drugs yes it's about drug induced day dreams yes it mirrors walrus every song in the first half of the movie is mirrored by every song in the second half. If you notice when the movie is half is reached and you can tell when because things start to go backwards (it helps if your stoned but not drunk) you get a rush of deja vue and your eyes are stuck on the screen that you realize that the colors are fantastic and Lucy's song is one of the most colorful in the movie. This song and for that matter is like a fairy tale for adults. LSD nay I dare say a great head movie yea I say 10,000 times feed your head
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