The Beatles - Glass Onion Lyrics

The Beatles Lyrics

"Glass Onion"

I told you about strawberry fields
You know the place where nothing is real
Well here's another place you can go
Where everything flows
Looking through the bent backed tulips
To see how the other half live
Looking through a glass onion

I told you about the walrus and me, man
You know that we're as close as can be, man
Well here's another clue for you all
The walrus was Paul
Standing on the cast iron shore, yeah
Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet, yeah
Looking through a glass onion

Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Looking through a glass onion

I told you about the fool on the hill
I tell you man he living there still
Well here's another place you can be
Listen to me
Fixing a hole in the ocean
Trying to make a dove-tail joint, yeah
Looking through a glass onion

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Writer(s): Paul McCartney, John Lennon

For this song Paul McCartney had an idea of confusing those people who tried to get too much from The Beatles lyrics. McCartney came up with the song's structure and John Lennon used meaningless lyrics.

About the line "The walrus is Paul" John Lennon explained to Rolling Stone in an interview in 1971, "He was trying to organize the group, and organize the music, and be an individual and all that, so I wanted to thank him. I said 'the Walrus is Paul' for that reason. I felt, 'Well, he can have it. I've got Yoko, and thank you, you can have the credit.'"

Other Beatles songs are mentioned in this song's lyrics are "Strawberry Fields", "I Am The Walrus", "Lady Madonna", "The Fool On The Hill" and "Fixing A Hole".

The words "bent-back tulips" were explained by Pattie Boyd in her autobiography "Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me" where she said that bent-backward tulip petals had been used by a chef of one of the London restaurants to decorate customers plates.