The song was written after the Beatles were going through fan mail, and they picked one out at random, which turned out to be from a school John had attended when he was young. And, the letter said that they were analyzing the lyrics of his songs in class. So, John wrote the nonsensical I Am The Walrus, largely based on The Walrus & The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll. It has been said that some of the lines were written by John under the influence of LSD, but Paul had nothing to do with it. It was John scribbling on scrap paper (I believe some of the handwritten lyrics to this song were auctioned off a couple years back). Semolina Pilchard, by the way, was a combination of two names of nasty foods John remembers eating as a child.
Well its funny you say that, cause it sounds like in the last two lines that's what he's talking about, elementary kid just tearing poetry apart to find meaning, and before that, Expert texpert choking smokers
Don't you think the joker laughs at you? Ha, ha, ha!
All the smart people trying to take meaning out of nonsense that was written when the writers were just high, well we're laughing at you know
this in response to the nonsense earlier in the song.
Well its funny you say that, cause it sounds like in the last two lines that's what he's talking about, elementary kid just tearing poetry apart to find meaning, and before that, Expert texpert choking smokers
Don't you think the joker laughs at you? Ha, ha, ha!
All the smart people trying to take meaning out of nonsense that was written when the writers were just high, well we're laughing at you know
this in response to the nonsense earlier in the song.
The song was written after the Beatles were going through fan mail, and they picked one out at random, which turned out to be from a school John had attended when he was young. And, the letter said that they were analyzing the lyrics of his songs in class. So, John wrote the nonsensical I Am The Walrus, largely based on The Walrus & The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll. It has been said that some of the lines were written by John under the influence of LSD, but Paul had nothing to do with it. It was John scribbling on scrap paper (I believe some of the handwritten lyrics to this song were auctioned off a couple years back). Semolina Pilchard, by the way, was a combination of two names of nasty foods John remembers eating as a child.
Never knew that. I guess it takes knowledge to gain it.
Never knew that. I guess it takes knowledge to gain it.
Well its funny you say that, cause it sounds like in the last two lines that's what he's talking about, elementary kid just tearing poetry apart to find meaning, and before that, Expert texpert choking smokers Don't you think the joker laughs at you? Ha, ha, ha! All the smart people trying to take meaning out of nonsense that was written when the writers were just high, well we're laughing at you know this in response to the nonsense earlier in the song.
Well its funny you say that, cause it sounds like in the last two lines that's what he's talking about, elementary kid just tearing poetry apart to find meaning, and before that, Expert texpert choking smokers Don't you think the joker laughs at you? Ha, ha, ha! All the smart people trying to take meaning out of nonsense that was written when the writers were just high, well we're laughing at you know this in response to the nonsense earlier in the song.