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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 girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
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 girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
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The Beatles were trying to turn people on to great esoteric truths, things which cannot always be taught directly. The Sargent Pepper Album was very much about that.
I do not think Lennon was lying when he said the song was inspired by his son's drawing, but the song was certainly about more than that.
Something that commonly occurred when using psychedelic drugs, especially with groups of people who were close was a certain flowing together of personalities and a sort of "ego loss' where the oneness of existence is perceived. This may sound like gibberish, but if it ever happened to you it would be clear to what I am referring.
Now let me relate what I have just said to the lyrics of "Lucy in the Sky"
"the girl with kaleidoscope eyes" - the nature of a kaleidoscope is a tube with many mirrors. You look in and the mirrors cause the bits of colored glass or plastic to form brilliant patterns. The word eye sounds the same as the word I. Kaleidoscope "I's" could refer to perceiving the world as a million reflections of yourself.
Picture yourself in a train in a station with plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
It seems the picture being painted is of railway porters with neckties with mirrors on them (looking-glasses). But the word tie has more than one meaning; it can also mean the ties between people, that which connects them. Porters conduct people from one place to another. In other words when you perceive the tie between yourself and another it is like looking into a mirror.
If you think I am off the track just look at how much of the Beatles music returns to this theme.
Just some thoughts on this subject.
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.
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.
"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.