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Song Meaning(I Am The Walrus-The Beatles)? Best answer on the web

Geposted am Wednesday 7 January 2009

  • Does anybody understand this song, its a good song but what is an eggman. And is the walrus a symbol of death or something.


  • John Lennon was angry of all the critics saying their songs meant this or that, and that they were so easy to understand, so he wrote I am The Walrus to give them a hard time trying to discover what it meant.

    Its lyrics don't make sense, because that was the purpose, though there are verses from a children's song, and the Walrus he talks about is from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Remember the story they told her about a bad walrus?

    Lennon didn't know until later that the walrus was bad.


  • i don't know personally but go here

    http://www.songmeanings.net/artist.php?a...

    sorry its not on the right song though...i was looking some up.


  • The walrus was Paul McCartney referring to himself. The walrus means "corpse" in Greek translation. When at the end of the song he says I am the eggman, he makes reference to Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put Humpty together again. An inspiration for the lyrics can be found from Lewis Carroll's, "The Looking Glass."


  • That particular song, like many produced in that same decade, was a product of drugs and getting high. Similar to an old classmate of mine writing a story about gum-people eating humans while he was high, [I Am The Walrus] so is much of the lyrics.



    However, of the few bits that do make sense, the Walrus is a reference to the walrus in Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (from [Through the Looking-Glass]). Of course, Lennon didn't know the walrus was an epitome of evil. But... oh well. We can't know everything.



    Also, the eggman, where it originated from, was supposedly Eric Burdon. He's the lead singer of [The Animals], claimed by some to be the 'Eggman'. Burdon was known as 'Eggs' to his friends, originating from his fondness for breaking eggs over naked girls.



    I hope that helps you. If not, visit the source link (aka: Wikipedia).


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