Strawberry Fields Forever

uh, den er lidt lang om kompliceret. Søg på google om den, det er meget nemmere. Du skal kende noget til John Lennon's liv inden du kan analysere noget som helst. Har analyseret den engang for noget tid siden da jeg var udvekslings student i USA, here it goes:

"Let me take you down,
‘Cos I’m going to Strawberry Fields.”

John Lennon often played with friends (Pete Best) at Strawberry Fields, a place in Liverpool - his hometown.

"Nothing is real" saying he views this place like a sacred place, where he can be free.

"Nothing to get hungabout" comes from his aunt Mimi telling him not to go, but his respond was "what are you gonna do? Hang me?"

“Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see.”

As a child John lived his childhood very happily, he didn’t know why he was with his aunt. When being a child you say you’re as pure as it gets, perhaps that is what he’s trying to say.

“It’s getting hard to be someone.
But it all works out,
It doesn’t matter much to me.”

Eventhough he had a happy childhood he was a troublemaker, he’d constanly get in trouble with the same buddies he’d play with at Strawberry Fields. “It’s getting hard to be someone” Mimi told him “the guitar’s all very good John, but you’ll never make a living out of it” When he was 15 his mother cantacted him for the first time since she left him, she always told him to don’t worry about school, it’ll all work out, and it shouldn’t matter much. “

“No one I think is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low.”

When he was a kid he knew he was a genious, but somehow nobody could see it. He could lost in high school. Tree is supposed to be his level of intelligence, “high or low” he’s not sure weather he’s insane or a genious. There’s a saying that the line between being a genious and insane is very thin, and if you’re insane, you don’t know it, but claims to be a genious – was that him?

That is you can’t you know tune in.
But it’s all right.
That is I think it’s not too bad.

“Tune in” meant interacting harmoniously with the world around you. A speech by Timothy Leary. (see wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out – it’s a long article, but explains it very good)

“Always, no sometimes, I think it’s me,”

Again he’s saying he knows he’s a genious, but is he? He’s questioning himself.

“But you know I know when it’s a dream.”

Maybe some drugs are included (could be interbritated with “dream” or “dream” being Strawberry Fields, like he knows he can’t act they way he acts in Strawberry Fields in the real world outside of it.

“I think I know I mean a ‘Yes’.
But it’s all wrong
That is I think I disagree.”

During the time being in The Beatles he accidently stated that (quote) “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. … I don't know what will go first—Rock and Roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now.” Later on he had to apologize to the public, 35 radio stations in the Bible belt in the US abandoned the Beatles, and people burned their records in protest. He had to appologize, he regret saying it causing all that controversy.

Okay everybody, this is what I get out of this song. Tell me if there’s something you disagree with, or think is wrong, I’m open for ideas. After all nothing is right or wrong… sorry for my English grammer, I'm tired, but I though I'd leave you this, since I think this song is abselutely fantastic.

www.songmeanings.net - altid en god siden til analyser af sange (duh)
www.sparknotes.com - amerikanske version af studieportalen
www.wikipedia.org - meningen med internettet