Why is Lucy in the sky with diamonds?

Answer 1

Well, of course, all those guys back in the 60s thought she was on LSD -- and the Beatles sold a lot of records letting people think that.

But what they never told anybody was what us Wordsworthians always knew. Lucy (=light in Latin) was always that ideal young woman we all remember from our youth, "fair as a star, when only one / Is shining in the sky." The first, the best, and forever. Maybe we lost her to another guy; maybe we thought we were going on to better things; maybe she simply disappeared from our lives, from life. Whatever. But she'll never really disappear; she'll always be there. Maybe there were none to praise her then; maybe she lived unknown -- but in our memories she always sparkles at the height of grace, "in the sky with diamonds." Yes, "and, oh, / The difference to me!"

She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!

There are actually five of Wordsworth's Lucy poems: all of them see her as an ideal of natural beauty; all see her as having been lost; all see her as living beyond the everyday, routine world we are left with. All of them, in other words, raise her to the sky--"with diamonds," as it were. Here's the last of the five:

A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.

So forget the LSD business. Lucy is that ideal we all once loved and lost.

Of course, there are biographical explanations (just ask Julian) and there are allusions to Lewis Carroll and probably other "other-worldly Lucy's." The Beatles never minded letting their lyrics speak to all of us on different levels. They continued to deny the LSD connection--and cashed the checks! But any British school-boy in the 1950s and 60s would have known that Lucy "dwelt among untrodden ways / Beside the springs of Dove."

Answer 2

L-ucy in the S-ky with D-iamonds.....get it... LSD....the Beatles never made any secret to the fact that Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour were written and produced under the influence of LSD...better known as acid. I wouldn't recommend you doing this to get ahead due to they really lost alot of fans in the middle of the tour. Good luck.

Answer 3

Forget the LSD theory. That's just a red herring. The one true answer is, and has always been, because diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Answer 4

Drat! That's where all of my diamonds went! That damn Lucy! That's the last time I leave her alone in my house!

Answer 5

Because her Southwest flight was canceled? :-) ... Look, for your sake, I am gonna be deliberately corny this time: Why use drugs when you can be naturally high? ... Drug users are not only the losers of Reality, but sadly enough the losers of Imagination too. ... Let a drug paint your consciousness, and I assure you soon enough your entire being will be painted USELESS BLUE.

Answer 6

She got tired of strawberry fields....

Answer 7

Because she's rich.

Answer 8

hallucinogenic drugs my friend.

Answer 9

They were stolen !

Answer 10

Per pdbarbie!!

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