- The Beatles, whose lyrics are often shrouded in pun, double entendre, or controversy … The ending chant to I Am a Walrus. I hear and like to believe it is Everybody’s Fucked Up, for it is fitting of the social state of affairs in the mid to late 60s and our current state of affairs which has made me sardonic. Realize admitting that was the lyric would have resulted in censorship back then. Others hear Everybody Smoke Pot another controversial lyric for the time resulting in possible censorship. I believe in a Playboy interview, John Lennon stated the chant is Everybody’s Got One but Lennon was always the practical joker and not always believable especially when asked to comment or critique his work. I love this chant for its pitch and cadence making it stick in my mind, as is your premise, but because we will never know if it was fluke or intent to muddle the clarity to create the controversy and hide a phrase that would result in censorship. What do you hear?
Favorite Song Lyrics of All Time. What Say You?
For some reason, certain arrangements of basic parts of speech attached to pitch and cadence got themselves permanently attached to my (remaining) brain cells.
What are your favs?
Here's my Top 3.
#1:
"Her teeth were like the stars above because they come out every night." Homer and Jethro, Live at the Country Club (Side one)
#2:
"They'll never forgot you, until somebody new comes along." (I think you know this one)
#3:
I had an internal UFC level battle going on in my head for this position, with no less than 11 contenders duking it out. So, I just gave up, and passed the baton to you guys.