It doesn’t matter that ccw’s psychology is entirely backwards, that John spent much of the early 70s denouncing his entire image with the Beatles and proclaiming his drug use to shock people. That he admitted his LSD experiences and would not had have the slightest hesitation about adding one more.
It doesn’t matter that everyone who knew him and wrote about him at the time confirmed the original story.
It doesn’t matter that in The Beatles Anthology, Paul says:
or that John is quoted as saying:
It doesn’t matter because, as you can obviously tell, he was lying when he said that.
Besides, Snopes says it is true and provides all these references saying the same thing over and over right up until just before Lennon died and references are stupid, aren’t they, because they say things you know aren’t true.
OK, you got me, LSD isn’t about LSD. And everything Snopes says is gospel truth. I guess I need to get more of my opinions from TV shows, believe what most people believe, it’s the safe way.
Aug. 24, 1989: Rose agrees to lifetime ban from baseball following a six-month investigation of his gambling, a deal announced by Giamatti. A five-page document signed by Rose and Giamatti has no formal findings. However, Giamatti says he believes Rose bet on baseball, while on the same day Rose denies it.
Ok guys, we are going to agree to disagree on this one, no big deal.
I remember asking a good friend of mine, who happens to be a fine musician, about “Lucy” and why Lennon always said it wasn’t about LSD. His reply was, “Why should he agree with them?”. We both laughed about it.
The wife tells me I’m getting stronger and stronger psychiatric messages. She says the spirits are coming to me all the time now and they say that I’m an initiate. Isn’t that amazing? We won’t need all those psychics anymore because I will get all the messages.
Chip them, chap them, cut them up allways; Pipe in Dream Cluse. Uncovers Pub History. Rinvention of vestiges by which they drugged the buddhy.
I had just such an argument with one of my english teachers, back in the day.
His position was that “Crosstown Traffic” was “obviously” about a heroin addict. He cited the connotation that “traffic” has with drug-smuggling, and “tire-tracks all across your back / I can see you’ve had your fun” as an allusion to “trackmarks.”
I remain unconvinced – since, if you accept those as bona fide drug references, the metaphor is hopelessly inconsistent. If the person being addressed is “traffic,” (in the illicit sense) then that would make them the drug, not the user, no? Also, if an allusion to needlemarks was intended, a songwriter of Hendrix’s calibre would not have dirtied it up by specifying Tiretracks and blowing the ambiguity. Beyond that, a person’s back is not a place where intravenous trackmarks are to be found, generally speaking.
I think, in this case, one level of metaphor is sufficient, and probably all that’s intended. The song is about some groupie skank who is viewed, like urban traffic, as a frustrating inconvenience. What do you think?
Also, I let this slide by earlier:
I agree, and further add that “Happiness is a Warm Gun” is a homophonic pun (ie; "A penis is warm gun,) which adds another dimension to “Mother Superior jumped the gun!”
I can’t help idly wondering what our boy (possibly with a headful) made of this:
Sorry. Mother Superior’s hat is habit-forming.
('spatially after a bowler, too.)
