| The Runaways – Strawberry Fields Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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well here from lennon himself: Lennon (from his 1980 interview with Playboy magazine): "Strawberry Fields is a real place. After I stopped living at Penny Lane, I moved in with my auntie who lived in the suburbs in a nice semidetached place with a small garden and doctors and lawyers and that ilk living around... not the poor slummy kind of image that was projected in all the Beatles stories. In the class system, it was about half a class higher than Paul, George and Ringo, who lived in government-subsidized housing. We owned our house and had a garden. They didn't have anything like that. Near that home was Strawberry Fields, a house near a boys' reformatory where I used to go to garden parties as a kid with my friends Nigel and Pete we would go there and hang out and sell lemonade bottles for a penny. We always had fun at Strawberry Fields. So that's where I got the name. But I used it as an image. Strawberry Fields forever." Some of the lyrics reflect being misunderstood. Lennon added: "The second line goes, 'No one I think is in my tree.' Well, what I was trying to say in that line is, 'Nobody seems to be as hip as me, therefore I must be crazy or a genius.'" (thanks, Conrad - Los Angeles, CA) |
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| The Runaways – Strawberry Fields Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Strawberry fields I beleive is a place that you retreat knowing it is not really real, but it is at that moment. I would suggest that is drug-related. Weed mainly, because it would give you time to be away, knowing you will come back to reality again. Just imagine: You are having some tough times, you smoke a "J" relax a little you go to Strawberry fields, think about stuff, dream, then you hit reality again, you know you will come back. You argue with yourself, then you smoke some more... strawberry fields forever. I don't know it could just be that place that one goes to clear the mind, walk away from the trouble mind but then you know you will have to go back. |
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