Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Field is a real place, a children's community home run by the Salvation Army in Liverpool. It is very close to where John lived as a child and he often used to wander in Strawberry Field and attended summer fetes in its grounds. On many occasions John pointed out that this was his best Beatles song.
Let me take you down
cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hungabout
Strawberry Fields forever
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
it doesn't matter much to me
Let me take you down
cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hungabout
Strawberry Fields forever
No one I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high or low
That is you can't you know tune in
But it's all right
That is I think it's not too bad
Let me take you down
cos I going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hungabout
Strawberry Fields forever
Always, no sometimes, think it's me
but you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a 'Yes'
But it's all wrong
that is I think I disagree
Let me take you down
cos I going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
and nothing to get hungabout
Strawberry Fields forever
Strawberry Fields forever
" 'Living is easy with eyes closed. Misunderstanding all you see.' It still goes, doesn't it? Aren't I saying exactly the same thing now? The awareness apparently trying to be expressed is-let's say in one way I was always hip, I was hip in kindergarten. I was different from the others. I was different all my life. "
"The second verse goes, 'No one I think is in my tree.' Well, I was too shy and self-doubting. Nobody seems to be as hip as me is what I was saying. Therefore I must be crazy or a genius-'I mean it must be high or low,' the next line. There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see. I thought I was crazy or an egomaniac for claiming to see things other people didn't. I always was so psychic or intuitive or poetic or whatever you want to call it, that I was always seeing things in a hallucinatory way. Surrealism had a great effect on me, because then I realized the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity, that if it was insane, I belong to an exclusive club that sees the world in those terms. "
John Lennon-Playboy 1980 Interview
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