I think this song is about the sixties. Paul section is just a mantra. It dosnt mean much, but it is positive and suggests he has an answer.
Johns section casts an eye back at 1968 and perhaps the whole sixties youth movement in general. In 1968 the dream of 1967 died. I think John also ties his own turmolic events up with events of 1968. John refers to people pulling there socks up and putting there foot down. This must refer to all the social porotest of the sixties. In 68 students protested in the USA and in Paris. Pulling your socks up could also refer to John trying to get his life back on track in 68 after spending 65-67 in a drugs haze. Everybody saw the sunshine and Everybody let there hair down must refer to the hippies and flower children. Growing your hair long and the summer of love. But everybody had a wet dream refers to the ultimate failure of the sixties generation and the clueless idealism of the peace and love politics. John is up to date and by 68 he is already turning his back on the youth movement and realises its failure. In do this he is in league with lou reed and Frank Zappa. It was Johns cynisism that often made the Beatles what they were, and it ofset Pauls positivism, making the Beatles the most diverce and intriging band of there generation. But by 1971 John was singing "Imagine" The polar opposite of what he was expressing in this song.
I think this song is about the sixties. Paul section is just a mantra. It dosnt mean much, but it is positive and suggests he has an answer.
Johns section casts an eye back at 1968 and perhaps the whole sixties youth movement in general. In 1968 the dream of 1967 died. I think John also ties his own turmolic events up with events of 1968. John refers to people pulling there socks up and putting there foot down. This must refer to all the social porotest of the sixties. In 68 students protested in the USA and in Paris. Pulling your socks up could also refer to John trying to get his life back on track in 68 after spending 65-67 in a drugs haze. Everybody saw the sunshine and Everybody let there hair down must refer to the hippies and flower children. Growing your hair long and the summer of love. But everybody had a wet dream refers to the ultimate failure of the sixties generation and the clueless idealism of the peace and love politics. John is up to date and by 68 he is already turning his back on the youth movement and realises its failure. In do this he is in league with lou reed and Frank Zappa. It was Johns cynisism that often made the Beatles what they were, and it ofset Pauls positivism, making the Beatles the most diverce and intriging band of there generation. But by 1971 John was singing "Imagine" The polar opposite of what he was expressing in this song.