The Beatles’ I’m the Walrus lyrics deciphered by knowledgeable | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday

It’s one of many strangest songs The Beatles ever launched, and over half a century later, ‘I Am the Walrus’ remains to be complicated folks.

A kaleidoscope of sirens, surrealism and nonsense poetry, the 1967 observe has turn out to be one in every of John Lennon’s most advanced creations.

But in line with Beatles knowledgeable Scott Freiman, there’s extra happening in I Am the Walrus than simply gibberish: “It’s one of the most musically and lyrically complex songs they ever recorded” Freiman defined, talking to The Guardian as a part of a fan Q&A about his work Author of All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release, for which he spent years unpicking the group’s most cryptic lyrics.

And with Walrus, all of it begins with one thing surprisingly atypical – the sound of a police automotive: “If you listen to the opening of the song, you will hear John’s attempt to imitate the sound of the British police cars.”

One of the primary traces Lennon got here up with was “Mister City Policeman sitting”. According to Freiman, that line wasn’t simply thrown in, however really helped form the rhythm of the entire music: “The rhythm of that line helped to inspire the cadence of the song.”

Freiman explained that “the other lyrics come from a variety of sources, including Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter”.

“John was astonished to find out later that the walrus in Carroll’s poem was actually the bad guy!” he mentioned, referencing the unique 1871 poem a part of Through the Looking-Glass, which includes a walrus and a carpenter who lure a gaggle of oysters to their doom.

“As John said, ‘I Am the Carpenter’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it!” Freiman added.

Lennon was effectively conscious that followers and critics have been studying an excessive amount of into Beatles lyrics – and by the point Walrus was launched because the B-side to ‘Hello, Goodbye’, he tried to push again. In interviews, he usually claimed the lyrics meant nothing, and have been designed to confuse its viewers.

The 1967 music was featured within the Beatles’ tv movie that very same 12 months, as a observe on the related double EP Magical Mystery Tour and its American counterpart LP.