Lennon's lyrics

I was just listening to the white album and was wondering where the hell John got his lyrics from, especially lyrics like these .....

The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust

Taken from "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"

i know the answer to two lines :D
the man i the crowd had mirrors on his boots... to look up ladies skirts!!

the next line is about a theif who had fake hands - he'd steal stuff with his real hands under neath his coat whilst his fake hands were on the counter.

100% fact.

I was just listening to the white album and was wondering where the hell John got his lyrics from, especially lyrics like these .....

The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust

Taken from "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"

i know the answer to two lines :D
the man i the crowd had mirrors on his boots... to look up ladies skirts!!

the next line is about a theif who had fake hands - he'd steal stuff with his real hands under neath his coat whilst his fake hands were on the counter.

100% fact.
To add to it, donating to the National Trust, meant taking a crap in the bushes.. 100 percent fact too... :oops:

he was just trying to be bob dylan.

Lennon was always my favourite Beatle. His songs has always moved me in some way or another.

Now that I have the John Lennon Acoustic CD, the songs are even more personal and powerful.

In most cases, those songs really meant something to each and every Beatle. However I do remember a story that John and Paul had with each other, that it didn't really matter what the Beatles wrote, even if it was gibberish, it would probably sell.

As with all artist, they have their inspirations and heroes to follow.

I bought the DVD of "Live Peace in Toronto"....when I was on the way to Texas, tried the laptop to see if I could get a wireless connection...no luck, but "Imagine" my joy when I discovered I'd left the aforementioned DVD in said laptop....'twas the only thing that made that 10-hour flight bearable....

:D :D :D

Vic

Vic,
That's one of my favorite performances. It's raw and feral -- Sex Pistols and the Clash before they ever happened. And it may well be my favorite version of "Yer Blues". As a matter of fact, that concert is the reason I bought a DVD player -- I wanted to see it as well as hear it!
Tim

I was just listening to the white album and was wondering where the hell John got his lyrics from...

LSD

And if someone could translate this I will be a happy man.

Jai guru deva om

I have heard (not fact, hearsay) that it means something like this:

I give thanks to/owe thanks to 'Guru Dev' (a real person), om (being the sound of universal harmony in some religion or other).

Victor to the guru-god, om, at least according to Walter Everett of the University of Michigan, who has published a superb and scholarly two volume study of the Beatles: The Beatles as Musicians. He's a musicologist and his two books are beyond the shadow of a doubt the best study of the songs themselves.

Om, by the way, is a sacred syllable used in Hindu meditation.

Many Thanks.

Ah, ok, the Hindu religion is the one. I was just going with what I remembered saying a while back (which is why I posted as not fact).

Glad that's cleared up :)

My favorite lennon lyrics are everything in Working Class Hero, I agree everything said in this song 110%, and it describes my feelings exactly as they were about schooling and such before I even heard the song.

Too many awesome John Lennon songs to list. Masterful lyrisist. His songs had the perfect balance of abstract/poetry with a rythymic backdrop, creating so much imagery.

" She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere, so I looked around and noticed there wasn't a chair"

" Here I stand, head in hand, turn my face to the wall"

" Please don't wake me, no don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.."

" And you're making me feel like I've never been born.."

" Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void. It is shining, it is shining.."

" Living is easy with eyes closed...mis-understanding all you see.."

" Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, towering over your head.."

" The celebrated Mr. K performs his feat on Saturday at Bishop's Gate.."

" They'd seen his face before. Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of Lords, I'd love to turn...you...on..."

"Yellow-matter-custard...dripping from a dead dogs eye. Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess, boy you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.."

" But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out..in"

" Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind.."

" One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.."

" she's so good looking but she looks like a man. Yes you should see her in drag, dressed in her polythene bag.."

" Yes is the answer...and you know that.. for sure"

" What in the world you thinkin of...laughin in the face of love.."

A lot of gems on the Mind Games album that go unnoticed also.

Glad to hear you like Mind Games. That's one of my favorite Lennon lps but it gets no respect. "Mind Games" itself is a fantastic tune, but many of the others on it are also great for various reasons (though there are a couple of silly ones). But it's also got some great neglected Lennon rockers -- Bring on the Lucie, Tight a$, Meat City.
Have you heard the remastered Mind Games? It's almost like a different album. You hear instruments in the mix that were buried in the original production. The remaster's clearly worth the money.