Beatles: Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds Meaning

Song Released: 1967

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds 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 kaleidoscope eyes!

cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
towering over your head …
look for the...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 26th 2012 !⃝

   It's about a drawing, not about drugs. Why would he lie about it being about drugs, if it's already banned by the BBC and radio?
2. anonymous

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   Sep 8th 2011 !⃝

   Many of you are overanalyzing the song, coming up with interpretations that are very weakly supported by the song's lyrics.
   
   Regardless of how the song was inspired, the song's lyrics consist of a series of visual imagery that is utopian, colorful, surreal, and childlike in nature. Think Alice in Wonderland, and you've got the right idea.
   
   That's all there is to it. Newsflash: not all artistic works have specific meanings or messages. John Lennon in particular wrote plenty of songs that were meaningless, or that were even meant to perplex the bozos that think that everything has some kind of deeper meaning.
   
   Also, for the record, the song's title was inspired by a drawing one of Lennon's sons drew, and the actual lyrics of the song were inspired by Lennon's experiences on LSD. The initials of the song's title was a coincidence though, surprisingly.
3. anonymous

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   Sep 8th 2011 !⃝

   WIKIPEDIA SAYS- Lennon's son, Julian, inspired the song with a nursery school drawing he called "Lucy — in the sky with diamonds". Shortly after the song's release, speculation arose that the first letter of each of the title's nouns intentionally spelled LSD. Although Lennon denied this, the BBC banned the song.
   BUT IT ALSO SAYS-
   In a 2004 interview, Paul McCartney said that the song is about LSD, stating, "A song like 'Got to Get You Into My Life,' that's directly about pot, although everyone missed it at the time." "Day Tripper," he says, "that's one about acid. 'Lucy in the Sky,' that's pretty obvious. There's others that make subtle hints about drugs, but, you know, it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music."
4. anonymous

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   Jul 3rd 2011 !⃝

   I agree with the song being mixed between john looking at julians picture, and him being on lsd... hha... thats the most fair answer... hhe.. but the truth lies within his grave... and all hes doin is laughing at us debating about it... ill be like that one day... i want people to debate about me... haha.. anything about me... hehehehe
5. anonymous

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   Jun 9th 2011 !⃝

   It's reported that it was about Julian's school drawn picture. But consider this people...
   (L)ucy in the (S)ky with (D)iamonds
   
   
   Quite a coincidence, no?
   
   Also don't forget to note this song was written around their heaviest LSD use.
   
   Cheers
6. anonymous

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   May 7th 2011 !⃝

   Its inspired by Lennon's first son, Julian. He was a little "trippy" and high on LSD when writing this or at-least still under a mind altering psychedelic influence which is an explanation of the odd surreal lyrics. The lyrics simply seem to talk about a girl named Lucy who he continuously finds and looks for who he or the character in the song seems to love or have a slight interest and affection for. I find there to be references(Excluding actual LSD)and surreal odd and random lyrics.
7. anonymous

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   May 7th 2011 !⃝

   I'm a little older than Julian and back then I couldn't understand the depths of the Baptists' hate for the Beatles who mostly sang about peace and love. Having learned here about Julian's picture of his friend Lucy (?perhaps the kids imagined her able to fly [in the sky] and rich [with diamonds]?).
   Now I can see it clear as day: Lennon wrote an *awesome, catchy kid song* that is filled with LSD influence. There's the watery sound filled with bendy notes and a potential drug reference in almost every line. All of the imagery is playful, harmless kid stuff and much may have come from playground storytelling. And it perfectly describes a trip in a 'newspaper taxi' where you 'climb in the back with your head in the clouds and you're gone'. -- LeMoyne
8. stoneman

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   Apr 22nd 2011 !⃝

   I think that the song primarily is the reminiscence on the childhood- not necessarily Julian's. Could be Jonhn's childhood, too. Julian's word could have inspired John to talk about his childhood. Maybe we can compare Syd Barret's Mathilda Mother with this.
9. anonymous

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   Apr 17th 2011 !⃝

   LSD, Lennon got a picture from his son and he got the idea from that.
10. enlightened

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    Apr 15th 2011 !⃝

    this song may be about his son yes but also his inner son being blocked out by the sun your blind when you stair into the sun so you moved to the fountain of H and tried to look for the sun but its gone.listen to power to the people he gave us all compressed cole of x-mas.may we all shine on
11. anonymous

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    Mar 20th 2011 !⃝

    It's pretty obvious that this song is under the influence of LSD.
    (L)ucy in the (S)ky with (D)iamonds
    Funny, huh?
    I'm a big fan of the Beatles! I love them to death but it would take ALOT of imagination to think of this song with no drug influence.
    Just take a look a the lyrics!
    "Where rocking horse people eat marsh mellow pies"
    "Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you away"
    "Clim in the back and you're gone"
    ?????
    Possibly "gone" referring to high?
12. anonymous

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    Mar 12th 2011 !⃝

    ok well honestly i just listend to the song and all the people who keep saying its about johns son painting a picture or ehat ever? what dose that have to do with marshmellow pies? like wtf... its clearly about LSD because it keeps saying stuff like "climb in the back with your head in the clouds and your gone" yeh. not one of you thought for one second that they were talking about being high? like kaleidoscope eyes? if that dosent give it away then i really dont know what els dose.
13. Mercedæs Møretti Å

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    Mar 3rd 2011 !⃝

    I think it's talking about how money doesn't make you rich, other things make you rich too, and people who think money makes them rich are crazy. John Lennon had a lsd trip wen he wrote it and he's just using his imagination to say an important message.
    
14. anonymous

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    Jan 29th 2011 !⃝

    If you listen to "I am the walrus" you hear the "cu cu ca chu" part (if you listen to the song you'll understand what im talking about) then if you listen to "Lucy in the sky" you hear the "cu cu ca chu" beat (not words) towards the end pick up, after you hear the "lucy in the sky with diamonds!!" you hear the "cu cu ca chu" beat, im not saying this song didnt have SOME drug influence, but john was very political and i think that's one of the reasons why he got shot, but thats another story, i think this song is a combination of drugs, global politics, or a drawing by a kid,
15. anonymous

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    Jan 22nd 2011 !⃝

    I just wanna say, if Julian Lennon was on LSD when he drew the picture Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is based on, what was a 4-year-old doing with LSD anyways? I was swear, I looked it up. Lucy in the Sky with diamonds came out in 1967, and Julian was born on April 8th 1963. Think about it. I never thought about putting drugs to a song, then I listened to some of the music coming out these days.
    
    I don't care what anyone says, I think what I think.
    I still love the song and think it was beautifully written.

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