“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is a song found on the Beatles popular album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hears Club Band. This song is a combination of the work of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Lennon received inspiration for this song from his son Jules. Lennon’s son was the inspiraion for multiple songs on the Beatles’ albums. The inspiration for this particlar song was from a painting Julian did at nursery school. The picture was of his friend Lucy, and the background was a sky with stars that looked like diamonds.
The Lucy the song is referring to is Lucy O’Donnell. Jules remained friends with her up until her death in 2009, when Lucy was diagnosed with a terminal case of Lupus.
The songs intitials ironically spell LSD, or if you use all six words, the intials spell LITSWD. Many people including Rolling Stones Magazine, believe that the song hints and refers to LSD. In 2004, McCartney addressed the issue of drugs in an interview with the Daily Mirror newspaper: "'Day Tripper,' that's one about acid. 'Lucy In The Sky,' that's pretty obvious.” While many people, including McCartney believed that the song referred to drugs, Lennon reassured that the song does not have anything to do with drugs. It’s been said that Lennon checked he intials of all the songs the Beatles ever wrote after “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” to avoid any other incidents or stories trying to relate their songs with drugs.
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaahhhhh...
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
3 comments:
Sounds like a sad song to me, but i bet it's good though.
That's funny - I'd always heard it was about LSD, also.
Sidebar, Lupus isn't terminal. It's an autoimmune disease. You die of the complications.
This song makes me happy, all Beatles songs make me happy.
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