anonymous 2007-06-22 14:56:51    

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My interpretation is correct.

Come together over me.. Is about a sexual threesome.

"1 + 1 + 1 is three"...
"got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see" - You can't see him cause he is covered by two ladies. I'm tellin' you people... This is the winner. Vote away.

anonymous 2007-07-08 14:34:19    

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Another window into the dense imagery and symbolism in this song is the controversial document "60if", which may or may not have been anonymously penned by someone in the Beatles inner circle, and may be a hoax. However, if it is a hoax, it is very clever, for it is like a grand Unified Beatles Theory, which puts all that you are discussing into context.

"It - It looks like a walrus!"

anonymous 2007-07-10 10:36:03    

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I don't think it's as complicated as many are making it out to be. While it does have some intentional meaning, I suspect that most of it is meant to be taken as a whole and not as much verse by verse, measure by measure. And, I also wonder how much of the song may have been just things that may have happened between the members of the band that are mostly insignificant, but were thrown into the song. For example, there may have been a joke about one of the members walking slow when the rest were in a hurry - he come grooving up slowly...or perhaps while they were working on a song, one of them was trying to get the beat down and another was trying to explain it to him after being frustrated by it - it happens - and said one and one and one is three. Then when Lennon was trying to piece together the song, he may have just been singing something to make it fit and that came to mind. Then, he realized what fit and could flow well as a song towards the overall meaning he was after.

As a whole, I think the song is about the evolution of The Beatles and the influence they saw themselves making on the world. You can see that throughout the song, it gradually builds to being more hippieish. At first he's got a flattop and he's a holy roller, then he evolves to not wearing shoeshine and having hair down to his knees. Then it becomes psychedelic and rollercoasterish and really begins to seem like gibberish, which is what I think Lennon was shooting for. The Beatles were like that. They all started off looking all dapper in suits and with short hair and seeming to be the nice kids that everybody wanted them to be. Then as musicians and people they evolved with the times as the song suggests. But overall, they were putting out music for people to listen to and it brought many people together in the long run.

I think that's what made Lennon a great song writer. I think he didn't even realize for sure the undertones of some of his stuff. He just did what he felt and put it out there in a way that left you wanting more.

anonymous 2007-08-28 21:38:09    

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In all honesty I'm not a religious fanatic, but I believe the song has several references to the hypocrisy of god. Many Beatles songs contain references to peace, love, and, of course, drugs. This one's no different, however the lyrics imply a second meaning.

"He one holy roller, He got hair down to his knee, Got to be a joker he just do what he please." Maybe the stereotypical image of god with the hair, the holy roller is pretty self explanatory, and of course God can be viewed as a "joker" since many things credited to the creator are very humorous, and sometimes inexplicable.

These lyrics are loaded as well. "He roller-coaster, he got early warning, He got muddy water, he one mojo filter, He say "One and one and one is three, Got to be good-looking because he's so hard to see" Obviously one could delve into religious philosophy, but I'll keep it simple. 1+1+1=3, A holy trinity reference maybe? Of course no one has ever seen god(hence so hard to see), and even so more war is carried out in his name than for any other cause known to man.

All the references to disease like, "Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease, Come together right now over me", may be a insinuation that God, and religion is corrupt. Makes sense, after all the Beatles promote peace and religion has been a basis for conflict since the beginning of time.

anonymous 2007-10-16 10:52:52    

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Personally I think you all are reading too much into it. This isn't the song that was written for the PAUL IS DEAD craze. You're mistaken for Glass Onion. Glass onion was written with a whole bunch of "fake clues" expressing Johns frustration with people reading too far into his lyrics as far as John and Paul once again showing their wit by giving the PAUL IS DEAD cult something to chew on. I think it's quite obvious that this song is about John Himself.

He got hair down to his knees - He was growing out his hair at this point.
Got to be a joker he just do what he please- That describes JOhn almost perfectly.
he wear no shoeshine- John is known for speaking out against the higher class.
He shoot coca cola- In the movie "a Hard days night" during the scene while they're on the train John tries to snort cola from a bottle. I always saw it as a reference to that.

he got walrus gumboot- he was the walrus
he got ono sideboard- Yoko ono
He got feet down below his knees- John was always reminding people he and the other beatles were normal people like everyone else
Got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see- Without his glasses John was legally blind

anonymous 2007-11-09 19:51:19    

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I really have no clue what this song could be about, but I feel like they were probably trippin when the song was wrote and a bunch of crazy lyrics just came out. But hey it's an awesome song!

anonymous 2007-11-11 16:04:05    

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The song has something to do with chuck berry and I want to know what it is. I also need to know what verse belongs to what beatle

anonymous 2007-11-19 17:54:02    

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The Beatles each one of them represent a certain kind of Beatle(insect) which ones.

Also what does Chuck Berry have to do with the song "Come Together"

anonymous 2007-11-21 00:45:32    

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You guys, it's about heroin addiction. getting three bags dealt from the dealer....feel his disease...dirty filter.."I know you, you know me" I can't believe more people don't know this!!

anonymous 2007-11-27 09:28:02    

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Come together means to achieve orgasm with your partner at the same time. listen to the end of the song-john is screaming in sexual delight

anonymous 2007-12-12 21:03:42    

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So far, nobody has mentioned the fact that the song is influenced by the Chuck Berry song "You Can't Catch Me".
The line "here come ol' flat top" is a direct lift from that song. The rest of Come Together follows the same rhyme and meter pattern as the Berry song. Lennon was actually sued for using this material without crediting Chuck Berry (and paying royalties!)

anonymous 2007-12-17 15:26:25    

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The Drugs were good in the 60's

anonymous 2007-12-19 23:20:43    

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THE HIPPIES COMING TOGETHER!

-'he come grooving up slowly'
-clearly there are some drug mentioning whichever ones you want to think are or aren't, they are hippies, that's how we do
-he got hair down to his knee (obvi)

this is the one that is why they hippies:
*got to be a joker he just do what he please*
common that's what hippies are about, liberation, rebellion, doing what you please!

-he say 'i know you, you know me' 'one thing I can tell you is you got to be free'
*everyone knows who they are, and he knows that. and everyone has to be free.


that was the first time I have ever tried to figure that song out but it really makes sense because that's what the beatles are and represent. I have been learning about this stuff for the past two weeks in history. EASY RIDER is a good movie for this ;)

anonymous 2008-01-13 17:06:25    

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When I first heard this song, I also thought it was about the 4 boys. Seems like it makes a lot of sense. The world would have come together over them, given more time. but after researching it, it really is the whole Timothy Leary obligation thing. But Leary's political life crumbled when he was imprisoned for his advocacy of drugs. And Lennon wrote the tune obscurely around Chuck Berry's song, "Here come old flat top" is the only line he left in from Berry's "You can't catch me" and it got taken to court over the influence but it was settled because John agreed to include two berry songs on an album. But they do goof and throw some crazy lines in their songs so us fans will create entire websites dedicated to cracking the Beatles code. as fun as it is...they just wanted music and peace man. let it be. I love George.

blue_eyes 2008-01-30 08:17:52    

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Ok, listen, there's a bunch of songs written by the Beatles that can easily be interpreted as "Paul is dead" songs, and I think that was the real reason they put all those "clues" in that song, they were just trying to get more publicity, some sort of made up scandal that would get people to buy their songs and talk about them. So no the song doesn't make any sense in terms of lyrics, but it did serve a purpose to the band! (Although I kind of agree that it might also have some drug references in it.)

anonymous 2008-02-17 10:23:47    

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I always thought this song was a tribute to George Martin. There are references to musical styles and tempo (groove it up slowly,muddy water,1+1+1 is 3). Martin was older (old flattop)probably had Yoko sitting in the booth with him during recordings (ono sideboard)also explaining the armchair and how serious he was about his craft (feel his disease). While in the studio Martin would be behind the glass (so hard to see) and finally the obvious, Come together over me. Martin was key in keeping it all together, especially near the end.

anonymous 2008-02-20 14:40:57    

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I'm confused! There's so many different people saying so many different things and it's hard to figure out what is true and what's not. Would y'all just make up your minds please!!

anonymous 2008-03-10 20:36:39    

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I think they just said it was a bunch of jibberish to leave it up to us to figure out what it meant. I know a lot of it just doesn't make sense but if you read between the lines you can see kind of understand. I believe that it is about equality. About not judging people by the way they are and accepting everyone. I don't know if that's true but that's how I feel when I hear the song.

anonymous 2008-03-12 12:05:28    

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Well first off I am pretty sure that the song is about the 4 of them.... now as far as the others some of them seem like they could make sense but I would like to say that those of you who think it's about the Revelation and Jesus' return are just wrong.... John Lennon made it clear that he was not a Christian, Spiritual yes, but not a Christian. He even made a LOT of people mad by saying at one point that they "are bigger than Jesus Christ" does that sound like he wrote a song about the bible? Come on people.

anonymous 2008-03-17 22:50:36    

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I think its a song about a guy and a girl coming together behind his back while he's so depressed he's on drugs...