Mother

I agree wit hall of you all....at his concert in New York City, he said "everybody thought this song was about my parents, but it is about 99% of the parents in the world" he had to be lying...this siong directly describes his childhood.

Like SpongeBunny said.

This song breaks my heart...how could a parent ever neglect or leave their child? The pain in his voice while he sings this song, really makes it perfect.

Appart from the biographic aspects develloped in the text, Lennon's talent here, is to talk to everyone about the magic/tragedy of our human condition : to become yourself, you must bury your parents and live with it. Lennon was at the turning point of his own life, unfortunately too short; adulthood and fatherhood, among other things, inspired him this wonderfull piece. Somme say that to sing is twice as strong as to pray. Here, we have the wonderfull performance of a man, praying for release from his past, with a heartbreaking sincerity. Perfect.

This song is obviously about his childhood. How his father left so early in his life and his mother was never there...

by the way, if anyone knew the life of john, you would know that his mom did not leave him, she was killed hit by a car. but he did blame her for a long time, for not been there, he was really close to his mom and then for her not to be gone, he killed him inside.

exactly she didnt neglect him they were more like best friends than mom and son

um his mum forced him to choose between living with his mum or dad. maybe athts why his mum sounds blamed.

This is the truth.

Julia, John's mom, got a divorce from John's father, Alfred. Alfred is a seaman, so John thought that his mother can't just live with her husband being overseas and all...

Julia, being the youngest of the siblings, was carefree. She can't raise John very well. She took John to her elder sister, Mimi, where John was well-fed and well-schooled.

Julia appeared on John's life when he (John) was a teenager. She taught him banjo chords and all that. Their relationship grew. But it was more like a brother-sister relationship than a mother-and-son. John really liked her. She has a gorgeous face and a wicked sense of humor.

But just when things started to mend, Julia was killed in a car accident. The person responsible was a drunken, off-duty policeman. John was devastated.

John realized that the policeman was only human, so that was forgiven, although the pain is very intense.

John had undergone a screaming therapy where he can literally scream his pains.

He obviously wrote this song for his mother. His pains and sufferings. I guess, when he wrote this song, he felt at peace with his mom.

So that's it!

pJ ;P

My god, this song really breaks my heart. You should check out the live version on Imagine soundtrack it's so emotional.

Hmm, not in a car accident, she was hit by a friggen bus, his father was a sperm (seaman).