# Come Together **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330 "2003-09-28T18:13:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/1 "2003-09-28T18:13:15Z")
Can anybody tell me what the lyrics to the Beatles song “come together” MEAN??? i already know what they are.;j ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/2 "2003-09-28T18:31:55Z")
Where’s [Rich Kulawiec](http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/american-pie/) when you really need him? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/3 "2003-09-28T19:03:43Z")
What? You get me all excited, expecting a thread about simultaneous orgasm, and all I get is a question I can’t answer? Repent!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/4 "2003-09-28T19:11:00Z")
Look, it’s very simple. There’s this guy, alright, and he’s telling people that they should congregate, at this time, concerning him. ---
**Author:** ![NotBob13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@NotBob13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotBob13)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/5 "2003-09-28T20:27:22Z")
I’ve always taken it to be a about a hippie, charismatic, “cult leader” type who was gathering recruits to join him. If you look at the song this way it makes sense mostly, if you liberally interperet things like “he shoots coca-cola” to be “he mainlines cocaine” etc. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/6 "2003-09-28T20:40:39Z")
I do know that _Come Together_ started out as a campaign song for Timothy Leary, running for governor of CA against Ronald Reagan, but I don’t know if the lyrics as they are, are intended to reflect that or not. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/7 "2003-09-28T20:54:12Z")
Off to Cafe Society. **DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/8 "2003-09-28T21:41:49Z")
Just more of Mr. Lennon’s word imagery. Like “Lucy in the Sky” and “I am the Walrus”. ---
**Author:** ![Moo\_the\_Magic\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Moo\_the\_Magic\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moo_the_Magic_Cow)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-together/204330/9 "2003-09-29T01:45:49Z")
Nothing. It was Lennon’s response to critics’ over-analysis of his lyrics. Check out Glass Onion.