John Lennon Instagram – GLASS ONION. 🔵 That’s me just doing a throwaway song à la ‘Walrus’, à la everything I’ve ever written. I threw the line in ‘the Walrus was Paul’ just to confuse everybody a bit more. And I thought Walrus has now become me, meaning ‘I am the one.’ Only it didn’t mean that in this song. It could have been ‘the fox terrier is Paul,’ you know. I mean, it’s just a bit of poetry. It was just thrown in like that. Well, that was a joke. The line was put in partly because I was feeling guilty because I was with Yoko and I was leaving Paul. I was trying… I don’t know. It’s a very perverse way of saying to Paul, you know, ‘Here, have this crumb, this illusion, this stroke, because I’m leaving.’ Strawberry Field was a place near us that happened to be a Salvation Army home. But Strawberry Fields… I mean, I have visions of Strawberry Fields. And there was Penny Lane, and the Cast Iron Shore and they were just good names, just groovy names. Just good sounding. Because Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go. GLASS ONION. I told you ‘bout Strawberry Fields You know the place where nothing is real Well here’s another place you can go Where everything flows Looking through the bent backed tulips To see how the other half live Looking through a glass onion I told you about the walrus and me man You know that we’re as close as can be man Well here’s another clue for you all The walrus was Paul Standing on the cast iron shore yeah Lady Madonna trying to make ends meet yeah Looking through a glass onion Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah Looking through a glass onion I told you ‘bout the fool on the hill I tell you man he’s living there still Well here’s another place you can be Listen to me Fixing a hole in the ocean Trying to make a dovetail joint yeah Looking through a glass onion