



When John Lennon let his "free-association" lyrics get too get carried away, it could be embarrassing ("Happiness Is a Warm Gun"); here, as in his great "Strawberry Fields Forever," it served only to evoke an entire otherworld--in this case, based on a simple drawing his son Julian brought home from school one day. (For my money, the visualization of this song in the Yellow Submarine movie is about as perfect as you could ask for.) For stark contrast, check out the early version of this song on Anthology 2, where John takes his priceless surreal imagery and rattles it off unemotionally, as though he was a railroad porter announcing stops.
(C) 2008, It's All Too Much.