2007-03-20 05:04:38 · 7 answers · asked by MaryBeth 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Contrary to the belief that John wrote this song about Yoko, he actually wrote it about a dream he had about he and his lover May Pang. John even convinced Pang to be the mystery voice that called his name "John" during the first bridge. On the second bridge he reversed the tape of her saying his name.
EDIT - the Ah! b'wakawa pouss?, pouss part are just nonsense lyrics he made up that sound foreign.
2007-03-20 05:12:12 · answer #1 · answered by Crash 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well - this is not the #9 song on the white album that some people think it is - this is a John Lennon solo song - not a Beatles song.
It is a bit of an odd song - but I like it:
I would say it is truly about a dream he had...read some of the lyrics:
So long ago
Was it in a dream, was it just a dream?
I know, yes I know
Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me
Took a walk down the street
Thru the heat whispered trees
I thought I could hear (hear, hear, hear)
Somebody call out my name as it started to rain
Two spirits dancing so strange
Dream, dream away
Magic in the air, was magic in the air?
I believe, yes I believe
More I cannot say, what more can I say?
On a river of sound
Thru the mirror go round, round
I thought I could feel (feel, feel, feel)
Music touching my soul, something warm, sudden cold
The spirit dance was unfolding
The only thing that throws me is - what is
"Ah! b'wakawa pouss?, pouss?"
It might be another language??
2007-03-20 05:15:47 · answer #2 · answered by Xonda 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
in accordance to John, "Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé" does no longer mean something, it rather is in elementary terms a word that got here to him in a dream and he desperate to base a song around it. (besides the fact that if the know-how "poussé" interprets from the French as meaning greater or less "thorough") of direction many Lennon followers additionally stated that some aspects of this song regarded eerily precognitive after he replace into shot to death on Dec. 8th, 1980, as his killer "observed as out his call" ("Mr. Lennon" as adversarial to "John") merely till now shooting him three times as he "took a walk down the line" close to his NYC apartment. John additionally had a nicely time-commemorated fascination with the quantity 9. surprisingly this song, the intense verse of which has 9 syllables, replace into released on John's 9th solo album strategies video games (9 letters) on the 9th month of 1974 and went to quantity 9 on the charts of that 12 months. Many have additionally stated that John replace into shot at 11 P.M. on Dec 8th, at which era it replace into already Dec. 9th in his place of origin of Liverpool. 1980 is likewise, numerologically speaking, a "quantity 9 12 months": a million+9+8=18, a million+8=9
2016-10-19 04:12:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is probably the only one who truly knew and he probably was high when he wrote it. Sadly, we will never know either for sure.
2007-03-20 05:09:35 · answer #4 · answered by AKA FrogButt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the meaning was to screw with people's heads!
Numba Nine
Numba Nine
Numba Nine
Numba Nine
2007-03-20 05:09:55 · answer #5 · answered by ♪ ♫Jin_Jur♫ ♥ 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who knows. More than likely he didn't either.
2007-03-20 05:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by lkk_04_04 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ooh !ooh! i know this one but i forgotten!
2007-03-20 05:09:02 · answer #7 · answered by ginger 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋