Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
The Beatlesࠀ Lyrics
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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
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow 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
Ah
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
The lyrics to The Beatles’s song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” have long been debated as to what they truly mean. On the surface, the song describes an idyllic dreamlike state with tangerine trees, marmalade skies, kaleidoscope eyes, and cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over the head of the listener while drifting down a river. However, there is a deeper meaning to the song, as evidenced by the title itself, which spells out "LSD." The lyrics were inspired by a drawing that John Lennon's son Julian had brought home from school, depicting a girl named Lucy with "diamonds" in the sky. From here, Lennon’s imagination took over, creating a world of dreamlike scenery that he attributed to the psychedelic state of mind brought on by LSD.
The song speaks to the heightened sense of awareness and vivid imagination that one might experience while under the influence of LSD. The “girl with kaleidoscope eyes” has been interpreted as a hallucination, representing the kaleidoscopic aspects of the psychedelia experience. The visual imagery of a bridge, marshmallow pies, and newspaper taxis, all pointing at hallucinations that one might have while under the influence of LSD. The song incorporates a sense of surrealism, subconscious, and poetic imagery.
Line by Line Meaning
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
Visualize yourself on a serene river in a boat
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Surrounding the river are orange trees and pinkish-orange skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
You're slowly responsive when someone calls out to you
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
You notice a girl whose eyes reflect various colors and shapes
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
You see transparent flowers in shades of yellow and green
Towering over your head
The flowers appear tall from your perspective
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
Seek out the girl whose eyes radiate warmth like the sun
And she's gone
She's disappeared from your view
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
This is the chorus, which repeats the title of the song
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Track her down to a bridge beside a water feature
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
At this location, there are imaginary humanoids riding toy horses eating marshmallow desserts
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
As you pass by the colorful flowers, people around you are happy
That grow so incredibly high
The flowers appear abnormally tall
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Taxis made of newspapers show up on the shoreline
Waiting to take you away
These taxis are available to transport you somewhere else
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
Get in the back of a taxi and let your thoughts wander
And you're gone
You've departed from your previous location
Picture yourself on a train in a station
Imagine yourself at a train station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
You see people at the station made of plasticine with reflective neckties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
All of a sudden, someone appears at the turnstile gate
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes
It's the same girl from earlier, whose eyes still appear multicolored and dynamic
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
The chorus repeats twice more to end the song
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: JOHN LENNON, PAUL MCCARTNEY
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