She's My Girl

Morning glory is slang for an involuntary erection. The girl was in a pornographic magazine and he was fantasizing about her. The “bullet in her eye” reference could have been the result of him pleasuring himself and inadvertently getting something on the page in the area of her eye. This theme of fantasizing about unobtainable women runs through much of The Turtles’ work. At the time of release, many radio stations refused to play the song because they thought the song was about drug use. It’s a little amusing to think that the band would have been quick to say that the song was not about drugs, but would have likely stopped short of explaining what the lyrics actually meant for fear of just bringing up another reason that some may have felt also deemed it inappropriate to play on the radio. Anyway, it’s a great song and I can’t believe that I’m the only one here that has commented on it.

Is no one else thinking what I do? This is a song about a guy who shot his girlfriend (it’s “bullet in her eye” not “boy”… he took her out for a ride and now she’s up in the sky. I fear that there’s more than just “a little bit of heaven” underneath that apple tree. The turtles were known for making sarcastic songs, and making parodies of themselves, and this is right up their alley.
And it’s funny. In an awful sort of way, of course.

The song came out in 1967. It was about a guy and his girlfriend cruising around smoking weed and making out under the apple tree. Maybe climbing the apple tree too, since they went up in the sky getting so high. I really like the Turtles and this was a very cool song. Mornin morning glory. Morning glory referred to psychedelic drugs then. Another song at the same time on the charts was Some Velvet Morning-another stoner song. Also, Just dropped in.. I was 12 and loved the music then. Of course I can’t forget I am the Walrus. The Beatles were really buzzed on that one.