Come Together

It's the time for it, the place for it, and the people are ready for it.

John Lennon lyrics:

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me

He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me

He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He say "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me

good song

Could you please explain?

each verse is about one of the beatles, but i could place them together for you.

come together

john wrote it about himself LOOSELY, the "flat top" line came from a chuck berry song. berry sued and john had to record the album "rock and roll music" as penance for that. AND the song was to be used for timothy leary's run for CA Governor.

The first two lines are almost identical, and the melody is the same. The agreement from the court case was that John would record the Berry song on a future album, which he indeed included on the "Rock 'n' Roll Music" LP.

Think about it.
"come together over me"

"is a free-association gumbooted walrus tossing off pithy one-liners like 'hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease.' Though the song was originally conceived as a theme for Timothy Leary's proposed campaign against Ronald Reagan for Governor of California ...." The Beatles Forever; Nicholas Schaffner; McGraw-Hill; 1977; page 124.


I would suggest that the song is not able the Beatles, as has been the most common interpretation. It wasn't done at a time when he was interested in being together with the other three, or being a Beatle any more.

Lennon saw through that Mystic Gobbledygook and did what he always did when he ran up on a Sacred Cow: he made hamburgers.

:smoke:
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Remember The Rickenbacker And The Vox AC30 Top Boost

was originally to be titled "Maharishi," and indeed was about that experience. That song, like the rest from the time of the Beatles affair with the guru, are found on the earlier White Album.

How'd you like to have John Lennon for a sworn enemy?

:rofl:
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Remember George Martin

of that type are "How Do You Sleep?" (to Paul), and "Steel and Glass" (to Allen Klein).

So I watched it twice. And cried both times at the ending. You'd think I'd learn - he always gets murdered at the end. I always cry. And the closing song is always the last straw...

"There are places I remember, all my life, though some have changed..."

My heart breaks all over again, every damn time.

Beatles' collection being released for the holiday season. I think it's available on CD and DVD. I'm not sure if I have the correct link, but I think it's at:

http://www.gettvmusic.com/beatleslovecd/

you should know that this is probably the soundtrack for the Vegas show.
George Martin remixed all of those songs and played around with them to fit the Circe dancers. That being said, it's probably superb. I would buy nearly anything Martin puts his golden ear to.

of over 150 different Beatle and post-Beatle "albums" (some are CDs). I end up buying any of the new releases, even though there are often only very slight variations on them.

I do admire Georg Martin. Of the people closest to the group, he has likely maintained the most respect for the magic they made.

He was 25 when he wrote that.

It's hard to listen to without cringing, wincing at certain lyrics and going "OOOH". Like "Muzak to my ears"... oooooo...

I mostly agree with John, but... hey, some of those Wings songs were nice.

with some silly digs on one album in particular. "Ram" had some curious little messages from Paul. John responded in (un)kind. One of my favorites was the postcard that answered the Ram LP cover:

I've always found the lyrics to "We Can Work It Out" to be not only addressed explicitly to John, but borderline insulting. (Just shut up and do what *I* want to do, because I'm always right.) What do you think? Did you pick that arrogant tone up from "We Can Work It Out", too, or am I the only one paranoidly seeing this? I have ALWAYS felt that that song was written to John.

And Harrison wrote the came up with the idea of the waltz motif in the chorus, "life is very short..."
It wasn't a pure Paul tune.

Harsh. I know John could be acidic, but the lyrics to this song just don't jibe with his usually higher level of thinking and relating. They just seem so argumentative, so haughty, so Paul. Wow! You know A LOT about Beatles songs. Now that you mention it, I *do* very much hear Harrison's northern touch in that "life is very short" waltz-time part.

I love other Beatles fans.

"Paul wrote the chorus, I wrote the middle bit about 'life is very short, there is no time for fussing and fighting ...' all that bit." -- Lennon Remembers (The Rolling Stone interview in book form).

"We Can Work It Out" is widely viewed as one of two classic Lennon-McCartney songs from their middle era, and along with "It's Getting Better All the Time" reflects the growing differences in personality of the two.