Vestige - - I Am the Walrus

I Am the Walrus is still one of my many favorite Beatles songs.

It turns out it is also radically awesome slowed down 800% as Jean Beaudin discovered and demonstrated with his 1969 short film Vestige. Much as you would expect, this movie is more odd than anything and is probably only significantly enjoyable if you are high on something.

By no means do we suggest or advocate you get high to watch this… we’re just warning that it’s a bizarre film should you choose to watch it. Opinions may vary. (Warning: contains nudity and graphic imagery)

You are also welcome to be fully amazed (and probably a little scared) by listening to the stretched out I Am the Walrus, free from visual distraction with this clip.

John Lennon’s deliberately incomprehensible lyrics for I Am the Walrus

 

I am he as you are he as you are me

And we are all together

See how they run like pigs from a gun

See how they fly, I'm crying

 

Sitting on a cornflake

Waiting for the van to come

Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday

Man you've been a naughty boy

You let your face grow long

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' joob

 

Mr. City policeman sitting

Pretty little policemen in a row

See how they fly like Lucy in the sky

See how they run, I'm crying

 

I'm crying, I'm crying, I'm crying

 

Yellow matter custard

Dripping from a dead dog's eye

Crabalocker fishwife

Pornographic priestess

Boy, you've been a naughty girl

You let your knickers down

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' joob

 

Sitting in an English garden

Waiting for the sun

If the sun don't come you get a tan

From standing in the English rain

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' job

G-goo goo g' joob

 

Expert, texpert choking smokers

Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

See how they smile like pigs in a sty

See how they snide, I'm crying

 

Climbing up the Eiffel tower

Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna Man,

you should have seen them kicking

Edgar Allan Poe

 

I am the eggman

They are the eggmen

I am the walrus

Goo goo g' joob

G-goo goo g' joob

Goo goo g' goo

G-goo goo g' joob goo

 

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