How Do You Sleep? Lyrics

Lyric discussion by erasmus11290 

Cover art for How Do You Sleep? lyrics by John Lennon

It's sad that John felt the way that he expresses in this song. But does anyone have any thoughts on what he means in the first line?

So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise

I don't know.

Sgt. Pepper was a huge success, hes just saying that paul didnt expect it to be as popular as it was.

It's interesting. I was reading on all this paul is dead nonsense. I mean you look at how big the beatles were at the time b4 sgt pepper. when sgt pepper came out.. would the industry say paul died and let the biggest band in the world die, or try and keep it a secret...Sgt pepper took you by surprise?? But i've seen paul in concert and believe that's all nonsense. Just an interesting lyric to put in there. And george and ringo played on it. they were seriously sending a message, and i know that paul put out an...

It's interesting. I was reading on all this paul is dead nonsense. I mean you look at how big the beatles were at the time b4 sgt pepper. when sgt pepper came out.. would the industry say paul died and let the biggest band in the world die, or try and keep it a secret...Sgt pepper took you by surprise?? But i've seen paul in concert and believe that's all nonsense. Just an interesting lyric to put in there. And george and ringo played on it. they were seriously sending a message, and i know that paul put out an...