The things that Lennon sings about: digging a pony (celebrating, partying), doing a road hog (boning a groupie chick), picking a moon dog (choosing a band member/forming a rock n roll band), rolling a stoney (not sure what that means - getting high?), feeling the wind blow (being aware of/using current culture/trends to enhance prestige/use in music), syndicating any boat... (making money/doing business from anything you do (film, photos, cartoons, whatever the Beatles did that spun off from their music because people are interested and will pay) - these are all things that Lennon has invented to amuse himself/become himself, become a legendary pop star.
But the point of "I Dig A Pony" is that all these amusements and inventions pale in comparison to the love that he has found, and so "All I want is YOU!" (You are all that is important now. And "Everything has got to be the way you want it to be" (All the things I ever have wanted before are such nonsense. Now all I want is what You want).
In other words, all that the things that Lennon has accomplished or done before in his life are not very satisfying after all and, in fact, essentially meaningless . Now all he wants is what his true love wants (Yoko Ono, no doubt).
@Carlhole Who knows but this is what I think too. Ironic, self-referential, all Lennon's Late-Beatles themes. PArdon my suffiness but I'm collecting examples of postmodernism in Late & Post-Beatles. For no "good" reason I assure you. There are more than a few...
@Carlhole Who knows but this is what I think too. Ironic, self-referential, all Lennon's Late-Beatles themes. PArdon my suffiness but I'm collecting examples of postmodernism in Late & Post-Beatles. For no "good" reason I assure you. There are more than a few...
The things that Lennon sings about: digging a pony (celebrating, partying), doing a road hog (boning a groupie chick), picking a moon dog (choosing a band member/forming a rock n roll band), rolling a stoney (not sure what that means - getting high?), feeling the wind blow (being aware of/using current culture/trends to enhance prestige/use in music), syndicating any boat... (making money/doing business from anything you do (film, photos, cartoons, whatever the Beatles did that spun off from their music because people are interested and will pay) - these are all things that Lennon has invented to amuse himself/become himself, become a legendary pop star.
But the point of "I Dig A Pony" is that all these amusements and inventions pale in comparison to the love that he has found, and so "All I want is YOU!" (You are all that is important now. And "Everything has got to be the way you want it to be" (All the things I ever have wanted before are such nonsense. Now all I want is what You want).
In other words, all that the things that Lennon has accomplished or done before in his life are not very satisfying after all and, in fact, essentially meaningless . Now all he wants is what his true love wants (Yoko Ono, no doubt).
@Carlhole Who knows but this is what I think too. Ironic, self-referential, all Lennon's Late-Beatles themes. PArdon my suffiness but I'm collecting examples of postmodernism in Late & Post-Beatles. For no "good" reason I assure you. There are more than a few...
@Carlhole Who knows but this is what I think too. Ironic, self-referential, all Lennon's Late-Beatles themes. PArdon my suffiness but I'm collecting examples of postmodernism in Late & Post-Beatles. For no "good" reason I assure you. There are more than a few...