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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
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 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
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 kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Jun 25, 2010 - 15:49  The Beatles,London,Promo Party for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album,May 19,1967 by rising70 http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_first_rays/ . |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 15:36 The Beatles - "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds": |
| n4ku (Way over yonder in the monarchy) | Posted: Oct 17, 2006 - 19:39  |
| figsout | Posted: Oct 17, 2006 - 19:38 "Air" stole the intro of this song and used it in every song they ever made |
| QueenLucia (Corner of the USA) | Posted: Sep 18, 2006 - 11:35 Aaaahhhhhh. It doesn't get any better than this.  |
| photomuse (Queen City) | Posted: Sep 03, 2006 - 20:47 meloman wrote: Fantastic album, great song. I even use it in my English classes to teach prepositional phrases! (count 'em...it's loaded)
We need more teachers like yourself in the "amerikan" educational system! |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Sep 03, 2006 - 20:31 tony620d wrote: well minions, here is your fix for the day. whoa.. so trippy "youre freaking me mr. lennon.. marshmellow pies... aaaahhhhhh!!!!! " I love LSD......Tony-get over yourself these days!! |
| ElSupreme (ATL) | Posted: Jul 07, 2006 - 09:12 Zep wrote: Gotta LOVE Zappa. |
| Zep (Home) | Posted: Jul 07, 2006 - 06:43 |
| Vogelfrei (Western Montana) | Posted: Jun 22, 2006 - 14:51 hippiechick wrote: Here here!!!
We're all mad here!  |
| hippiechick | Posted: Jun 22, 2006 - 14:39 bob789 wrote: It's never too late! Here here!!! |
| Danny_G (Lima) | Posted: Jun 22, 2006 - 14:38 |
| HombreDeMezcal (Aztlán) | Posted: Jun 22, 2006 - 14:38 One of the best songs of the best record ever Excelente! |
| tony620d (an office) | Posted: Jun 22, 2006 - 14:38 well minions, here is your fix for the day. whoa.. so trippy "youre freaking me mr. lennon.. marshmellow pies... aaaahhhhhh!!!!! " |
| bob789 | Posted: Jun 22, 2006 - 14:37 novacura wrote: I guess I was not stoned enough when I was younger.
It's never too late! |
| exciter76 (venice - la bella italia) | Posted: Jun 08, 2006 - 00:50 Lennon's voice at the max!!!!!!!! marvellousssssssssss |
| novacura (Rotterdam, Holland) | Posted: Jun 08, 2006 - 00:43 I am going to get killed. I know it is meant to be a classic, but ....... For me it has not made the transition to a classic state, it sounds dated and only seems to appeal to people still looking back at time when they were stoned. I grew up with the Beatles and despite a few good pieces I always thought they sucked. Sorry folks, but I guess I was not stoned enough when I was younger. |
| Vogelfrei (Western Montana) | Posted: May 31, 2006 - 16:00 Mari wrote: ... (click here)... Just a suggestion? ...
lol  |
| Jack_Jefferson (Columbus, OH) | Posted: May 24, 2006 - 10:19 If I ever become wealthy, I'm going to comission someone to paint a picture similiar to this album cover. Instead of the people on the cover, I'd have an assortment of actors, writers, musicians, politicians and other show business celebrities that I think are overrated. This one always makes me think of Lucille Ball, but I don't recall her being famous for wearing diamonds. They should have called the song Liberace in the Sky with Diamonds. |
| Mari (Broome, WA) | Posted: May 09, 2006 - 21:11 Vogelfrei wrote: I don't think that's the only way to explain it. And from personal experience, I think this song fits better with THC than with LSD... just sayin'   ... Just a suggestion? ... |
| Vogelfrei (Western Montana) | Posted: Apr 25, 2006 - 07:46 ElSupreme wrote: Come on the only way to explain "marmalade skies" is LSD. And that is about 5sec into the song.
I don't think that's the only way to explain it. And from personal experience, I think this song fits better with THC than with LSD... just sayin' |
| ElSupreme (ATL) | Posted: Apr 25, 2006 - 07:00 lester wrote: Must it be about lysergic acid diethylamide? What about "librae," "solidi," and "denarii" (pounds, shillings, and pence)?
Or, then, it could be a song about an imaginary "Lucy" character, who's up in the sky and wearing some diamonds. It just might, you know. You never can tell. Come on the only way to explain "marmalade skies" is LSD. And that is about 5sec into the song. |
| hurrah (Europe) | Posted: Apr 25, 2006 - 06:57  |
| lester | Posted: Mar 27, 2006 - 02:33 algrif wrote: . . . nobody can really believe that John was not writing about LSD Just listen to the lyrics. Must it be about lysergic acid diethylamide? What about "librae," "solidi," and "denarii" (pounds, shillings, and pence)?
Or, then, it could be a song about an imaginary "Lucy" character, who's up in the sky and wearing some diamonds. It just might, you know. You never can tell. |
| highwindows (Suffolk (just)) | Posted: Mar 12, 2006 - 06:40 This absolute classic really needs no comment whatsover - but there, I've just made one!  |
| Paul_in_Australia | Posted: Feb 25, 2006 - 15:05 Cant help but notice that the name of the band, both on RP and on the album cover is "Beatles" not "The Beatles". Surely this is yet more more evidence that Paul had TB and subsequently died ? wink |
| algrif | Posted: Jan 27, 2006 - 04:53 OK It's quite possible that the original song was inspired by his son's drawing. But nobody can really believe that John was not writing about LSD Just listen to the lyrics. This 'Oh, Really? I never noticed' act is about as dumb as re-releasing 'He's So Fine' as 'My Sweet Lord' and saying the same thing. |
| Moak (Reading, PA) | Posted: Jan 27, 2006 - 04:48 Mari wrote: ...Purely delusional I know, but I always thought this my very own personal song?...Any objections?...
 ... Got a song like that?...Yep. Into The Mystic by Van Morrison ...for one. |
| meloman (Warsaw, Poland) | Posted: Jan 27, 2006 - 04:36 Fantastic album, great song. I even use it in my English classes to teach prepositional phrases! (count 'em...it's loaded) |
| nick_valensi (Quito, Ecuador) | Posted: Jan 12, 2006 - 14:34 Tux wrote: Humbug. Humbug, and you know that. My taste absolutely is taste. It's MY taste. Accept it!  |
| babygirl614 (Green Bay, WI) | Posted: Jan 12, 2006 - 14:28 The song gets a 9; the whole album and the trippy animation from Yellow Submarine gets a 10. |
| UltraNurd (Boston, MA) | Posted: Jan 12, 2006 - 14:26 Figure it out? What if it had been the Elton John version? We might have been confused for a fraction of a second! |
| johnsolo (Illinois, USA) | Posted: Dec 29, 2005 - 02:17  |
| xouba (Corunna, Spain) | Posted: Nov 15, 2005 - 08:45 Ho hum. |
| Tux (The Netherlands) | Posted: Oct 17, 2005 - 05:40 zurcronium wrote: tux, your taste is called no taste. your welcome to it. try white noise, you may dig that.
Humbug. Humbug, and you know that. My taste absolutely is taste. It's MY taste. Accept it! |
| drover (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Oct 02, 2005 - 22:34 fab4fan wrote: John didn't use his regular beautiful singing voice though so it could have been even greater if he did. It's quite possible -- and sounds like -- the vocal track was sped up. Tinkering with track speed was a favorite George Martin trick about this time -- see vocals and other aspects of "Strawberry Fields Forever." |
| fab4fan (US) | Posted: Sep 15, 2005 - 19:26 drover wrote: After listening to this album for 27 years, starting when I was 4 years old, I just now realized how little I care for this song. Hmph.
 :verymad:  <-X That's a shame because it's really a great John Lennon song that Elton John recorded in 1974! John didn't use his regular beautiful singing voice though so it could have been even greater if he did. |
| drover (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Aug 18, 2005 - 22:50 After listening to this album for 27 years, starting when I was 4 years old, I just now realized how little I care for this song. Hmph. |
| DisplacedNorthrnr (Btwn the Golden Armpit and the butthole of Ontario) | Posted: Jul 20, 2005 - 07:20 I remember my grade 8 music teacher making us sing this song. As I recall, he was a bit of a bible thumper. Always wondered what he would have thought about the reference (perceived or otherwise) to the hallucinagenic. Then again, he could (or should) have been on something to put up with a bunch of prepubescent boys "singing". |
| nuggler (Oz via Good Hope) | Posted: Jul 20, 2005 - 07:18 Tux, you're a f@cking vampire, deliberately wanting to suck up the goodness & positivity of others who are *above* you in so many ways. You're so obviously 'calculating', man. Look at yourself for a change. Now, PISS OFF.... |
| zurcronium | Posted: Jul 20, 2005 - 07:14 Tux wrote: Please keep enjoying the music, but please also realize that the problem is with you. You somehow don't accept, or maybe even don't understand the possibility, that there are people around here on the face of this earth that do not share your taste. This does by no means mean that that taste is bad or that expressing taste should be perceived as annoying. If you find hearing other peoples opinion, I'd suggest you find some consultation in how to learn to respect other people's feelings and opinions. Everyone is equally allowed to express his/her taste and distaste. My comments are not stupid. My comments are an expression of my taste. Nothing to do with stupidity. Nothing is wrong with me, and my life is fine. I have no intention whatsoever to have you take away my freedom of speech, and thus will never auto-mute myself. I have no reason whatsoever to take a stresspill, since I do not suffer stress. Have I made myself clear? Can you find the decency to try to understand that you are not the only person on this earth? tux, your taste is called no taste. your welcome to it. try white noise, you may dig that. |
| lizardman_tcs | Posted: Jun 20, 2005 - 23:39 Pyro wrote: You bought that story? HA! As Sigmund Freud once said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." |
| psmith (Huddersfield, UK) | Posted: Jun 13, 2005 - 04:27 Pyro wrote: You bought that story? HA! Well.. There's a copy of the picture on Julian Lennon's website: http://www.julianlennon.com/Earth/bio/yby/index.html I suspect it prompted John & Paul to write a song with psychadelic references in it |
| Tux (The Netherlands) | Posted: Jun 06, 2005 - 04:13 coentje wrote: I'm getting a bit annoyed with you now. Everytime I'm really enjoying the music here on RP there's some stupid comment of yours saying that it stinks. What is wrong with you? Having a hard live? Put automute on yourself, take a stresspill and try to see that silver lining..
Please keep enjoying the music, but please also realize that the problem is with you. You somehow don't accept, or maybe even don't understand the possibility, that there are people around here on the face of this earth that do not share your taste. This does by no means mean that that taste is bad or that expressing taste should be perceived as annoying. If you find hearing other peoples opinion, I'd suggest you find some consultation in how to learn to respect other people's feelings and opinions. Everyone is equally allowed to express his/her taste and distaste. My comments are not stupid. My comments are an expression of my taste. Nothing to do with stupidity. Nothing is wrong with me, and my life is fine. I have no intention whatsoever to have you take away my freedom of speech, and thus will never auto-mute myself. I have no reason whatsoever to take a stresspill, since I do not suffer stress. Have I made myself clear? Can you find the decency to try to understand that you are not the only person on this earth? |
| Alafia (in the singularity) | Posted: May 22, 2005 - 12:03 My first LP!  |
| Sean-E-Sean (A small island in the Pacific Ocean.) | Posted: May 22, 2005 - 12:01 When I was six I used to put this on the stereo with headphones and try and make my ears bleed... S. |
| Pyro (Northwest Louisiana) | Posted: Apr 15, 2005 - 13:53 g1lgam3sh wrote: Not in the song, I think John got the name from his son who said it was the name of a drawing he'd done. Although a lot of us were 'talking' about LSD at that time.  You bought that story? HA! |
| Pyro (Northwest Louisiana) | Posted: Apr 15, 2005 - 13:50 I prefer the Shatner version.
Edit: after scrolling back, I see that I have not made a very original joke :oops: |
| ArbiterOfGoodTaste (Seattle WA) | Posted: Apr 15, 2005 - 13:49 Sobient wrote: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
Whoa. That is amazing. |
| Sobient | Posted: Apr 08, 2005 - 14:10 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. |