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  • ♪ (rock music) ♪

  • "I am he as you are he-- as you are me,

  • and we are all together."

  • What? Say what?

  • Give me, like, 46 minutes to think about this

  • and contemplate what this could mean.

  • I feel like this is like a 5 Seconds of Summer song

  • or a One Direction song.

  • This person does not have very good grammar.

  • "I am he...

  • as you are he... as you are me."

  • He's trying to say that we're all one. We're all one being.

  • They're all one race.

  • Reminds me of a book I read.

  • It's, like, on spiritual energy. And it's like, we are all one.

  • "See how they run like pigs from a gun.

  • See how they fly. I'm crying."

  • This sounds like a really famous song, I think.

  • I'm not into the rock scene or that '90s stuff.

  • Let's rebel with our gun, do you know? Second Amendment stuff.

  • "They run like pigs from a gun."

  • So they're squealing around, I guess, people are.

  • "I'm crying."

  • Maybe this is really emotionally stimulating for this person.

  • (laughs)

  • Maybe they're high.

  • It's probably not a 5 Seconds of Summer song now.

  • I think it's trying to say something about how--

  • something with a relationship,

  • how this guy's running away from the girl.

  • "Sitting on a corn flake, waiting for the van to come.

  • Corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday."

  • "Man you been a naughty boy. You let your face grow long."

  • You're sitting on a corn flake,

  • it's either a really big corn flake

  • or you're a really small person.

  • Maybe a corn flake is, like, a metaphor for something that

  • is not very steady and can't hold a lot of weight.

  • So he's like, "stupid bloody."

  • I say British. I can see the "bloody" thing going on.

  • Maybe it's a band from the UK.

  • The long face-- that means you're sad or down in the dumps.

  • Is this all just symbolism and I just don't get it?

  • "I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

  • I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob."

  • What the [bleep]?

  • This is like The Beatles but not.

  • I know this song. It's a Beatles'.

  • It's The Beatles.

  • It's called "I Am the Eggman," right?

  • He's an eggman. So he's like a superhero?

  • He's really proud of being Eggman, savior of... chickens?

  • When he said, "I am the eggman,"

  • I instantly thought of Sonic and Doctor Eggman.

  • They're using some weird kind of code

  • to convey some kind of picture, and I'm not getting that picture.

  • "Mister City Policeman sitting,

  • pretty little policemen in a row."

  • "See how they fly like Lucy in the sky, see how they run."

  • Okay, I saw "Lucy in the sky,"

  • I instantly thought of a Beatles song.

  • But I'm pretty sure this isn't a Beatles song.

  • And if it is, this is a really weird Beatles song.

  • "See how they fly like Lucy in the sky, see how they run."

  • He's planning something to fight back, and he's making a metaphor

  • how they're gonna run away and fly off.

  • I feel like he's kind of mocking the policemen.

  • They're conformed, 'cause they're policemen,

  • I mean, working for the government.

  • I think this song's like a symbolism

  • for how policemen run the world.

  • Policemen are known to abuse their power.

  • How can they fly and run at the same time?

  • They're on acid.

  • "I'm crying, I'm crying. I'm crying, I'm crying."

  • I think this one means he's crying.

  • Pretty straightforward, I gotta say.

  • Maybe the policemen got him.

  • He's crying for what the state of humanity

  • or the country or the city he's in.

  • Or he's crying, 'cause he's in joy, like,

  • "Oh, they're about to rebel, so they're gonna be free."

  • "Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye.

  • Crabalocker fishwife pornographic priestess.

  • Boy you been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down."

  • When you wake up and you got that nasty stuff in your eyes.

  • So that's what he's talking about. My dog has that sometimes.

  • "Crabalocker fishwife pornographic priestess."

  • That's a mouthful... definitely for the priestess.

  • Maybe it's about a priestess who kind of is a nun during the day

  • but like a ho during the night.

  • None of this song is correlating with any of the lyrics at all.

  • At this point, I just think they're making things up.

  • I really don't know what this means.

  • This is more mentally stimulating than school.

  • "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."

  • Oh, that's kind of pretty.

  • I think the English rain is his tears, and he's crying

  • 'cause the sun, the chick didn't come to meet him at the place.

  • You can't get tan from rain. It's not how it works.

  • This guy is just high.

  • I can't put anything together.

  • "Expert texpert choking smokers."

  • "Don't you think the joker laughs at you?

  • Ha ha ha! He he he! Ha ha ha!"

  • I don't know what a texpert is, unless you're good at texting

  • or you're good at reading stuff.

  • It's kind of ironic how the joker is laughing at you,

  • while he's the joker and you're supposed to laugh at him.

  • Joker means the arch-nemesis,

  • kind of like how they have a Batman and then they have the Joker.

  • So they have Eggman and the Joker, I don't know.

  • Or Eggman and the Yolker.

  • Now I think that this song is a joke.

  • They're making a song just to make a song and to see if anyone

  • notices that it's just super weird lyrics.

  • "Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower."

  • "Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna.

  • Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe."

  • This is why people have majored in English,

  • to understand this [bleep].

  • "Singing Hare Krishna," I think that's like a Hindu thing,

  • like a chant that they have.

  • Semolina, that's like a flower.

  • "Semolina pilchard," that could possibly be a girl.

  • "Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe."

  • Maybe that's higher authority,

  • like, talking down at Edgar Allan Poe,

  • because Edgar Allan Poe is so much more intellectual.

  • Well, that's rude, kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

  • He was a really good poet... so I've been told.

  • "I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.

  • I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob."

  • It still doesn't make sense.

  • I think it's an inside joke between them,

  • because it doesn't make sense.

  • (holding back laugh) "Goo goo goo joob. Goo goo goo joob."

  • "Goo goo goo joob, goo goo goo joob."

  • "Gooooooooooo jooba jooba jooba jooba."

  • (scatting) Jooba jooba, jooba jooba.

  • Gobbledygook.

  • I feel like you guys wrote this just to mess with my head.

  • I can't understand any of these metaphors.

  • They're too complex for me.

  • (Finebros) So what was this song about?

  • I think that song was about parties.

  • Drinking and drugs.

  • I think it was a guy trying to find the love of his life,

  • and people try to knock him down.

  • It's one big metaphor for defying The Man.

  • An uprising of the people against the government--

  • the pigs, the policemen.

  • Doesn't make sense.

  • Maybe that was their point, just to make everyone go crazy.

  • (Finebros) The artist who wrote these lyrics said

  • that they intentionally made the lyrics random and confusing

  • as a way to poke fun at the constant over-analyzation

  • of their other songs.

  • So this song was supposed to not make sense at all?

  • Yeah. "Goo goo goo joob."

  • People were like, "Hmm, joob.

  • Must mean really something deep to him."

  • I was forced to over-analyze these, and boy did I.

  • I automatically like this guy.

  • Everyone has that English teacher that just takes everything

  • and makes it so symbolic.

  • Not everything has to have a million meanings.

  • Maybe it's just a bunch of words thrown together.

  • Even if the goal was not to have a meaning,

  • the actual meaning behind it is to not to have a meaning,

  • so it technically has a meaning.

  • That's actually a good message to send out.

  • Stop over-thinking it

  • and just appreciate the actual song for itself.

  • (Finebros) Do you know the song's artist and title?

  • Hell no.

  • No idea of who wrote this.

  • I'm only gonna say it's from the UK.

  • "Goo Goo Goo Joob" is the title, I'm guessing.

  • I have no idea who the artist is.

  • "I Am the Eggman" by The Beatles.

  • The Beatles, "I Am the Walrus."

  • "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles.

  • (Finebros) It's called "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles.

  • The Beatles wrote this?

  • So it was a Beatles song?

  • Wow, I didn't think-- okay.

  • I thought it was gonna be some offbeat artist.

  • But I guess it's cool that they don't care

  • what other people think of them.

  • Beatles.

  • Some of this stuff was cool, I get it,

  • like those references that they were making.

  • But the whole "gojooba" part kinda messed everything up.

  • (Finebros) The name of the song isn't "I Am the Eggman."

  • It's actually called "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles.

  • That's kind of ruined my day a little.

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  • ♪ I am the walrus, goo goo goodbye

  • ♪ (rock music) ♪

♪ (rock music) ♪

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