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We've Learned Over The Years That If We Wanted We Could Write Anything That Just Felt Good Or Sounded Good And It Didn't Necessarily Have To Have Any Particular Meaning To Us. As Odd As It Seemed To Us, Reviewers Would Take It Upon Themselves To Interject Their Own Meanings On Our Lyrics. Sometimes We Sit And Read Other People's Interpretations Of Our Lyrics And Think, 'hey, That's Pretty Good.' If We Liked It, We Would Keep Our Mouths Shut And Just Accept The Credit As If It Was What We Meant All Along.

-John Lennon

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We've Learned Over The Years That If We Wanted We Could Write Anything That Just Felt Good Or Sounded Good And It Didn't Necessarily Have To Have Any Particular Meaning To Us. As Odd As It Seemed To Us, Reviewers Would Take It Upon Themselves To Interject Their Own Meanings On Our Lyrics. Sometimes We Sit And Read Other People's Interpretations Of Our Lyrics And Think, 'hey, That's Pretty Good.' If We Liked It, We Would Keep Our Mouths Shut And Just Accept The Credit As If It Was What We Meant All Along.

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Instant Karma Is Going To Get You.

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Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out.

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Being Different

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Life Is What Happens To You While You're Busy Making Other Plans.

I Believe Jesus Was Right, Buddha Was Right, And All Of Those People Like That Are Right. They're All Saying The Same Thing - And I Believe It. I Believe What Jesus Actually Said - The Basic Things He Laid Down About Love And Goodness - And Not What People Say He Said.

After The Revolution You Have The Problem Of Keeping Things Going, Of Sorting Out All The Different Views. It's Quite Natural That Revolutionaries Should Have Different Solutions, That They Should Split Into Different Groups And Then Reform, That's The Dialectic, Isn't It - But At The Same Time They Need To Be United Against The Enemy, To Solidify A New Order.

Link Wray And Gene Vincent.... Two Of The Greatest Unknowns Of Rock 'n' Roll.

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I Don't Believe In Killing Whatever The Reason!

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There Are A Lot Of People Walking Around With Long Hair Now And Some Trendy Middle Class Kids In Pretty Clothes. But Nothing Changed Except That We All Dressed Up A Bit, Leaving The Same Bastards Running Everything.

When You Cross The Street, Take My Hand

When You're In Love, When Somebody Says Something Like, "how Can You Be With That Woman?" You Say, "what Do You Mean? I Am With This Goddess Of Love, The Fulfillment Of My Whole Life. Why Are You Saying This? Why Do You Want To Throw A Rock At Her Or Punish Me For Being In Love With Her?

I've Never Met Anybody Who's Had A Flashback In My Life And I Took Millions Of Trips In The Sixties, And I've Never Met Anybody Who Had Any Problem. I've Had Bad Trips, But I've Had Bad Trips In Real Life. I've Had A Bad Trip On A Joint. I Can Get Paranoid Just Sitting In A Restaurant; I Don't Have To Take Anything.

The Sun Is Up, The Sky Is Blue It's Beautiful, And So Are You.

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