Lyric discussion by SNAFU - Fnord 

i just checked out "helter skelter" and i didn´t like, what i read, so i decided to sign up and place a comment to put things right...

now read - all who are interested in how this song is related to the manson family:

it is not true, that the beatles got inspiered by the murders - FACT!!!

charles manson believed that the beatles were sending him messages through their songs. he saw a race-war coming up between blacks and whites - of which he preached to his disciples, the so called "manson family". he gave this war the name "helter-skelter" named after the song. in the song he heard machineguns and pigs. when he realized, that his "helter-skelter-war" wouldn´t start, he decided to start it by himself. he went out with the family to commit the murders. the murderers stole a wallet in the polanski´s house and it was dropped in a toilet in a petrol-station in a "black area". then - so he thought -the war would start. he believed, that the blacks would win the war and kill all the white population. he and his family would escape and hide under the earth surface in the "bottomless pit" (described in the bible) which he saw located in death valley. after a long period of time the children of the family would arise out of the bottomless pit, kill all the blacks and then rule the world.

there is a lot more to this story but this version is enough for you to know.

all the beatles wanted to do with this song is to outrock pete townsend - THAT´S ALL

peace!!!!!!, fnord

Actually, he didn't plan to kill the blacks. After the war was over, he felt the blacks wouldn't know how to lead or run the country. He said that "darkie" would come to him and ask him to lead and he would pat "darkie" on the head and tell him to go work in the fields like a good n****er. Hia plan was to make the blacks slaves again.

dude that whole outline of the manson murders was completely wrong! first of all charles manson never went out and did the actual killing himself secondly he thought black people would take over and he would rise up on them after the race war was over thirdly he only ordered the murders on the tate's because he wanted to kill this record producer that didnt like his music and had rejected him a record contract it just happen to b shitty luck that he had moved out and roman and sharron moved in after they killed sharron and all the...

ok point taken but...what the person was basically saying was manson was inspired by the white album in many ways. that is the point... not the beatles by manson. manson thought of the white album like a f*in bible. and that is a FACT. the song its self is about what this person said ... paul thought .... we can out rock "the wh"o and all these "rock bands" better than anyone else. and this is his middle finger back at the people that thought they couldnt. paul wrote the lyrics after a ride in england. the bealtes where totally...

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