Arc101

Takes a while to start, but worth it. By the way, does anyone understand the lyrics ?

http://62.210.133.184/melon/cometogether.swf

izzzzy

thanks,that was great. i think the song is a spoof on themselves.

warrrreagl

There simply CANNOT be a Beatles thread on TFP without a reply from me somewhere.

Now, when you say "understand the lyrics," how much time have you got?
**warrrreagl rolling up his sleeves***

The simple answer is that the title refers to simultaneous orgasm, and the lyrics are John's self-portrait description of himself and his new life with Yoko.

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MexicanOnABike

wow! thats some fucking great animation for a flash movie!!! i think they used a 3d plug-in for it.

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God of Thunder

If you click on the animation while it is playing, it turns into karaoke(sp?) mode.

I don't think you are supposed to understand the lyrics.

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warrrreagl

I just watched it again, and the animator actually took the trouble to have Paul's bass playing match the actual fingering of the main bass line.

Now that's really impressive.

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RoboBlaster

Man, that was one of the best, if not the best flash movie I have ever seen.

Vales419

That was pretty fucking cool. Thanks for the link.

V.

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quadro2000

I would love to hear the complex answer. First of all, I never knew about the simultaneous orgasm reference - I guess I just never thought about it - and I'd love to hear about the rest, if you feel up to it. If not, I'll search the 'net. If you do...don't leave out toe jam football.

Yes, but when they're all walking in a row, Paul has the same foot forward as everybody else.

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present_future

That was really great.
Does anyone have any idea how I would go about saving it?

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warrrreagl

As I said, the title Come Together refers to he and Yoko achieving mutual simultaneous orgasm during their furious (and legendary) lovemaking. The overall subject of the lyrics are a description of himself and his new life with Yoko.

Flattop is a "backward" reference to a moptop.
Joo-joo eyeball refers to the glasses John wears.
Hair down to his knee refers to John's extremely long hair in 1969.
Joker refers to John's playful nature and attitude.

Wear no shoeshine refers to the fact that John is a hippy and not a "straight" and that he doesn't wear the kind of business shoes that need shining.
Toe-jam football is Lennon nonsense, but may refer in some way to being a British football fan. Lennon was notorious for making up nonsense words and phrases that almost seem to make sense.
Monkey finger is a stab at his own guitar playing technique.
He shoot coca-cola refers to his practice back then of shooting speedballs (coke and heroin).

Bag production refers to bagism, a strange artistic practice devised by he and Yoko.
Walrus gumboot refers to "I Am the Walrus" and a British slang for rubber boots.
Ono sideboard refers to Yoko being his new sidekick.
Spinal cracker could refer to a ton of things, but my personal opinion is that he is referring to himself as being a heavy dude (and his very coolness will break your back).
Feet down below his knee is probably more Lennon nonsense and just happened to rhyme with the correct number of syllables.
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease is probably another way of saying "You can't know what someone is going through until you've walked a mile in his shoes."

Roller-coaster and Early warning are unkown to me.
Muddy Water may refer to the great American blues guitarist who was living in London at that time.
Mojo filter is probably a reference to the blues songs that feature voodoo as subject matter.
One and one and one is three is a reference to Lennon's refusal to communicate with trite language (as usually people say "one and one is two").
So hard to see refers to Lennon's unavailability to the radical groups that were wooing him as a spokesman for their causes.


I'd be welcome to hear of any alternative explanations.

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quadro2000

Very very interesting, warrrreagl, thanks for taking the time to post all of that. I still don't see the song as making much sense, but it's still a great number.

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warrrreagl

I'm not sure what kind of "sense" John was trying to make, as I don't believe this song has any kind of message or tells any kind of story.

It is almost like a musical Haiku; imagine John looking at a snapshot of himself and setting the description of what he sees to music.

Also, the heavily reverbed sound at the beginning that sounds like an old phone dialing is John saying the words "shoot" and "shoot me" and having it echoed. The words were a reference to his heroin use.

Kind of ironic words considering how he died, huh?

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the_marq

That was an awesome animation, thanks for the link.

I had not heard the song in a long time and this reaffirms my asertion that the Beatles are the greatest group of musicians in the last 100 years...thanks again.

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crackpot

Good stuff, as usual, <b>warrrreagl</b>. Very nice breakdown.

quadro2000

Very creepy. Even creepier on the Anthology version where you can actually hear him just yelling "shoot."

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