The song by the Beatles: I Am the Walrus..What is the song about? It's so random and makes no sense to me.

Answer 1

,the first line is about one acid trip,the 2ND line,was there 2ND acid trip,it comes from the story,the walrus and the carpenter,were the walrus was the bad guy,the carpenter,the good guy,,in short it was about the capitalist and social system,it also has reference to Alice in wonder land

Answer 2

Ahh, those psychedelic years when they were into drugs.
Actually the song doesn't make sense because it is made up of 3 songs.
The walrus from the the walrus and the carpenter (Through the looking glass)
Mister city police man
Sitting on a corn flake

All he could come up with was 2 or 3 versus for each song. He later sat with McCartney and combined all 3.
That's why it is difficult to interpret a meaning or a message from this particular song

Answer 3

That is the point of the song, it is not supposed to make sense. The '60's was a time when artists experiemented with many different themes, especially in music. You will see a lot of music from this time, that seems like it has no reason to it...that is because most people at this time were getting stoned, and when it comes to a band like the Beatles, only they could make a song like, "I am the Walrus", and it becomes a big hit. Many people have said the animals in the song refer to the different band members, but I do recall one of them saying, they were just fooling around when they wrote it. The following is from songfacts.com:

John Lennon wrote this, but it was released as the B-side to "Hello Goodbye," which Paul McCartney wrote. This angered Lennon because he felt this was much better.
Lennon wrote most of this while tripping on acid. The up and down rhythm was inspired by a police siren he heard.
Lennon made sure the lyrics didn't make sense so he could confuse all the people trying to analyze his songs. He got the idea for the oblique lyrics when he received a letter from a student who explained that his English teacher was having the class analyze Beatles songs. Lennon answered the letter; his reply was sold as memorabilia at a 1992 auction. (thanks, Emery - San Jose, CA)
The voices at the end are from a BBC broadcast of the Shakespeare play King Lear.
The idea for the Walrus came from the poem The Walrus and The Carpenter from Alice in Wonderland. In his 1980 Playboy interview, Lennon said: "It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles' work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, s--t, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it?"
When Lennon decided to write confusing lyrics, he asked his friend Pete Shotton for a nursery rhyme they used to sing. Shotton gave them this rhyme, which Lennon incorporated into the song:
"Yellow matter custard, green slop pie, all mixed together with a dead dog's eye.
Slap it on a butty, ten foot thick, then wash it all down with a cup of cold sick."
The song's opening line, "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" is based on the song "Marching To Pretoria," which contains the lyric, "I'm with you and you're with me and we are all together." (thanks, bertrand - Paris, France, for above 3)
The choir at the end sings "Oompah, oompah, stick it in your jumper" and "Everybody's got one, everybody's got one."
This song helped fuel the rumor that Paul McCartney was dead. It's quite a stretch, but theorists found these clues in the lyrics, none of which are substantiated:
"Waiting for the van to come" means the 3 remaining Beatles are waiting for a police van to come. "Pretty little policemen in a row" means policemen did show up.
"Goo goo ga joob" were the final words that Humpty Dumpty said before he fell off the wall and died.
During the fade, while the choir sings, a voice says "Bury Me" which is what Paul might have said after he died.
During the fade, we hear someone reciting the death scene from Shakespeare's play "King Lear." (thanks, Tommy - flower mound, TX)
The BBC banned this for the lines "pornographic priestess" and "let your knickers down."
Lennon got the line "Goo Goo Ga Joob" from the book Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce.
In The Beatles song "Glass Onion," Lennon sang, "The Walrus was Paul." He got a kick out of how people tried to interpret his lyrics and figure out who the Walrus was.

Answer 4

Lyrics like these are intended to evoke images and emotional responses; they do not tell a story or really contain any actual narrative structure, only the semblance of one.

Answer 5

Alot of songs make no sense, than to those who wrote it. Have you seen some of the "modern art" lately, what were they thinking?

Answer 6

i love that song. but thats because in the sixties they were All on drugs. ( i mean that in the best way possible because the beatles are the best band that ever lived)

Answer 7

Typical psychedelic-era Lennon....in other words, it likely only made sense to Lennon. One of his drug-influenced tunes...