"Come Together".... What Does This Song Mean?

[arwalden]

These lyrics are almost as confusing as the lyrics to MacArthur Park.
-- Allen

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Beatles's Lyrics - Come Together 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

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. It means ACID. (nt)

[intheflow]

John Lennon got his hands on some good sh*t

and tried to write another peace song?

[Deja Q]

2. I think it's gross. Was John Lennon coy about his unmentioned bisexuality?

:shrug:

Let's face it, "come together, right now, over me" is a little too obvious.

That or thought he was Jesus Christ and preferred people were above him instead of he being above them. :shrug:

[arwalden]

8. I Always Thought It Was A Little Sexual-Sounding Too

But then again... sometimes EVERYTHING sounds sexual to me, so I figured it might just be my imagination.

[Flammable Materials]

21. Michael Jackson covered this. Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew. n/t

[lynx rufus]

3. silly baloney

also know as balogna

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Right. It's too bad he couldn't write quality songs, like

the corporate music media shit-stream produces now.

:eyes:

[McKenzie]

4. must have been when they got hold of some really good grass

can't think how anyone who wasn't toked to the eyeballs could have written that...heehee.

[ryban]

5. It was a Timothy Leary suggestion...

The legend, as I remember it, is that Leary asked Lennon to write a song for Leary's campaign for governor of California and he suggested the line "come together, right now, over me."

The first line was pretty much stolen from Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me."

Here's some background I just found:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=191

[mattclearing]

7. Stream of consciousness

Like most good art, it is intentionally ambiguous, painting a picture without explanation.

I think the "Come Together Right Now Over Me" line is a plea to end divisions between people, now, because I say so. Like, "I'm singing this song, telling you to do it now, so do it already."

But that's just my take.

[sendero]

18. I like...

... your take and it is mine also :)

Some of the best song lyrics can be interpreted many different ways, they mean what you think they mean.

In this case, I don't really think the song means anything, and that's cool with me.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. See, this Mr. Flattop, he comes grooving up... slowly.

Mr. Flattop has hair down to his knee. Only one knee, because Mr. Flattop only has one leg... This may be why he comes grooving up slowly.

Actually, I found this:

http://www.beatles-discography.com/c.html

[rug]

11. "cryptic nonsense"

He was still competing with Dylan but Dylan made sense

[arwalden]

12. Is That One Of Your Bookmarked Sites... Or Are You A Google Wizard?

Thanks... that was interesting.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. I don't know about wizard...

maybe just a nerd.

If it had to do with the Dead I might have it bookmarked.

[auntAgonist]

19. Great site! thanks for posting

clears up some misconceptions.

[Zomby Woof]

10. The first line...

Was taken from "You Can't Catch Me" by Chuck Berry, admittedly by Lennon, who idolized him.

[scarlett1]

17. Love your major award

it is Frageelee'

[Mike Nelson]

13. John was singing a "Self-Portrait" (it was about himself) -nt

#

[Cadence]

14. It means that people will

actively and willingly sing along to total and complete bullshit.


Kind of like how half a country will go along with total and complete bushshit.

New word I just thought of it. We should use it..ahhh that's just bushshit man!

When O'Reilly is spoutin off just look disgusted, shake your head and say ...that's such bushshit!!

[tjdee]

15. It's a homeless guy giving out random wisdom.

Way I figured it, John was writing about Mr. Homeless Guy Who Talks to Everyone and No One, as lives in a variety of cities. I've seen a bunch of them in Manhattan. They tell you all kind of things.

I always thought the quotes went
"I know you, you know me....One thing I can tell you is you got to be free....Come Together, right now, over me."

All the "Come Together" lines in my mind were all reiterations of what the Mr. Homeless Guy had said. "Come Together" was a sort of hey, "there needs to be peace, be together everyone" thing IMO.The colorful walrus gumboot descriptions were just fun descriptions by the narrator of this homeless man, to me.

Don't get the sexual ideas...as there's nothing sexual except the one line, which in that case would be completely unrelated to the rest of the song.

[Taverner]

16. All wrong - It's about the Maharishi

And about his ego. The song pokes fun at the Maharishi...I guess John was none too impressed of him during the time the Beatles spent up at his ashram.

[TNDemo]

20. I've always wanted to know why they apologized to Uncle Albert.

What was that about?

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Because they haven't done a bloody thing all day.

n/t

[bobthedrummer]

22. I've always assumed it was some type of simultaneous orgasm, meself

:smoke:

[LoZoccolo]

25. In that /Imagine/ documentary about John Lennon from the late 80s...

...there's some old footage of this disturbed-looking guy that just shows up on John Lennon's property talking about how meaningful the lyrics to "Dig A Pony" are, and John has to explain to him that he was just playing with words when he wrote them.

[Left Is Write]

26. I've never had a clue what that song meant.

I just knew I liked it.