The Beatles – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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  General Comment:Love this song. The version on "Yellow Submarine Songbook" is the best. Has the best drum sound!!!!

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  Song Meaning:Most people think this song is based on LSD and the beatles were well known for using this however its really about a drawing johns son did of his friend lucy in the sky with diamonds and john added parts from poems from his childhood

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  General Comment:This song is distinctly not about acid: You don't meet Lucy until you come through the turnstyle at the end.
  
  It is about the imaginings you've been fed about what LSD is like, actually, and as the larger meaning, it is about the media feeding the masses exaggerations and illusions (about anything).
  It's not about what acid is, but about what acid is not.

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  General Comment:Yesterday, after more than twenty years after I first listened to Sargent Pepper album I realised that all the songs are about Paul MacCartney's death and Tha Beatles being forced to go on with a fake replacement called Billy Sheers. This song is about Paul dying after the car crash and his visions of a heavenly place. And probably he was on acid when he crashed. Sargent Pepper is Billy Sheers who was trained to replace Paul and became an inside enemy of the other Beatles so they called him Sargent because he was trying to take control over them.

  Flagged Stormyseaon October 09, 2012   Link

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  My Interpretation:If you've ever done LSD. You would know that this song, is not about drawing, or some girl named Lucy. Its about fucking acid.

  Flagged DMorleyon September 10, 2012   Link

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    You're an idiot. It's definitely about a drawing.

    Flag FunRockson September 10, 2012  
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  General Comment:It was a well known fact that Lennon was a user of LSD, and I think that the song was written about one of his trips.
  I also think the drawing theory was a way for them to say it wasn't about LSD because drugs were a bit more taboo at the time. In recent years, drugs have become more accepted, so McCartney probably felt that telling people it's about LSD wouldn't get as negative a reaction it might've gotten back in the '60s and '70s.

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  General Comment:NO CLUE what the song means, and not a big fan of it. However, some bozo wrote a Songmeanings journal entry entitled "Lucy," and now I can't get this song out of my head! Thanks A LOT!!!

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  General Comment:wether its about drugs or a drawing, it still reminds me of that one girl that makes the beautiful scenery that much better

  Flag vinny91on August 08, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:Kiddies, please, stop your bickering!
  
  "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is NOT, I repeat, NOT about LSD. Please take the time to Google "Julian Lennon" and "Lucy O'Donnell". Lucy O'Donnell was THE Lucy from the song. She and Julian were friends from nursery school. They both vouched that the title of the song came from Julian in his attempt to tell John what was in his drawing. John freely admitted over the years that he DID write songs that were drug related, even going so far as to name some of them. Why in the world would he feel the need to deny the LSD connection to this song from 1967 through 1980? Having said all that, John's imagery in his lyrics were indeed very strong and "trippy", and his new found writing style may very well have emerged after he began taking acid. But the song was not intentionally written about drugs.

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    Just because the name of the song may have been inspired by Julian's drawing does not mean the song very clearly does not illustrate an LSD trip. This is the song where John very clearly becomes the "Dream Weaver" for an entire generation.

    Flag cpnnoahon September 15, 2012  

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    that's exactly right! I couldn't agree more! And I'm sure most people writing about this song have never seen John defending this song on the Mike Douglas show, which he & Yoko hosted for a week.

    Flag tesladudeon March 21, 2013  
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  General Comment:this song is definatley about LSD,
  1. have you seen the video? it's just like tripping out
  2. anyone who says the beatls were not on drugs is a twat, they were rock stars drugs was their lives and it is hinted in so many other songs
  3. they are obviosly gonna say that it was some picture that influenced it cos they dont want people knowing they are on drugs
  4. it's not just the fact that LSD is in the chorus, just listen too the lyrics in the verses, it pretty much describes what he saw when he was trippin out!
  
  but still an amazing song one of my favourates

  Flag lyricmangon May 26, 2012   Link

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    John and Yoko were in the Playboy Interview the same month that he was murdered. I believe it was Dec 1980.I think that interview may have got him killed as he told the whole world exactly where he lived and what his songs did or didn't mean.He talks about that song and many others in the interview.I thought he said it was a finger painting but at any rate it was Julians Art work.The words are pretty psychodelic.He also talks about writing songs to make people think you mean one thing when you mean something different. He noted Bob Dylan in that type of song writing.He also said that sometimes he was just trying to make words ryme and they had no meaning at all.

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