I think the song was also inspired by the drawing. As well as an acid trip. I don’t know the reason that he would deny it, or how he forgot it, and I agree it seems somewhat unlikely. But the alternative (That one of the most LSD sounding songs of all time, which has the acronym LSD, is not related to LSD) seems far more unlikely to me.
Meaningless coincidences happen all the time. It might well seem highly unlikely to you that a druggy-sounding song happens to have the initials LSD, but coincidence is very common.
Given the fact that the Beatles wrote a lot of songs that sound “druggy”, especially to people who are unfamiliar with the British tradition of nonsense verse which is known to have been one of John Lennon’s biggest lyrical inspirations, and the fact that there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, I don’t have any problem in believing that the initials of the song are a meaningless coincidence.
Yes (Toyes-love the song). The absolute best cover of the song was done by Norman Nardini, a Pittsburgh native and very good friend. Norman actually tried tracking down the original artists and couldn’t. good times.
What is the answer?
See for yourself. Lennon himself wrote the title in all caps, and capitalized only the word Lucy in the lyrics. There’s no good reason to infer that he was thinking “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” when he wrote “LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS.”
Alright, that’s pretty convincing evidence to me.
Next: Was Lola a man, or what?
She was the Walrus.
I smoke two joints in the morning,
I smoke two joints at night.
I smoke two joints in the afternoon,
It makes me feel all right.
I smoke two joints in time of peace,
And two in time of war.
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more.
It can only be considered a time of peace or a time of war given a time and place, so they are exlusive.
Assuming the joints he smokes during peace or war are not otherwise covered by those he smokes at a given time of day, we have 4 joint smoking sessions per day.
Morning, night, afternoon, and something about war/peace.
2 joints times those 4 sessions would be 8, but… he smokes two joints before he smokes two joints, and then he smokes two more.
So, it is actually six joints he smokes per session. 6x4= 24.
Bradley used to smoke a joint for every hour in the day.
Not really, but that’s the math.
Well. I was following right up until . .i smoked two joints.
Don’t be ridiculous. The Walrus was Paul.
Unless you’re saying… :eek:
Both of those are pretty unlikely. But you left off a third possibility that’s a lot more likely than either of them: The song has plenty to do with LSD, and was written by a couple of guys who may have been partaking while they wrote it and certainly had in the past and drew inspiration from their experiences, but the title is just a coincidence.
That’s what you get for trying to anyze one of the most inane songs ever written.
Yeah, actually this is what I think now, after seeing the capitalization in the original lyrics.
Goo-goo-g’joob to you too! 
I knew you were going to say that!
No, of course it wasn’t. Yes, of course it is. Forevermore.
OK. But what about Master Jack ?
I don’t want to take this too do-re-mi fa,
But the message was in “Obladi-Oblada”:
Paul was Lola
Obli-blada-Lola
Goo goo goo joob Lola …
From what I recall of what was probably the same interview, he said that at the time, they both were way too inexperienced with drugs to have written a song or poem about marijuana… they’d barely heard of it.