Come Together
The BeatlesShoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
[Verse 1]
Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly
He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker, he just do what he please
[Interlude]
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
[Verse 2]
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola
He say, "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
[Chorus]
Come together, right now
Over me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Verse 3
He bag production, he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease
[Chorus]
Come together, right now
Over me
[Interlude]
Shoot me
Shoot me
Right!
[Instrumental break 2:03-2:31]
Come, come, come, come
[Verse 4]
He roller-coaster, he got early warnin'
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He say, "One and one and one is three."
Got to be good-lookin' 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together, right now
Over me
[Interlude]
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Ugh!
[Outro]
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Uh...
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together...
About
Opening track on Abbey Road
The song was written by John Lennon and to be used as a campaign song for Timothy Leary (advocate for the use of psychedelics like LSD and popularizer of the “tune in, turn on, drop out” phrase) who was running for California Governor.
It’s been suggested that each verse talks about one of the members of The Beatles or a self-portrait of Lennon himself. However by his own admission Lennon often simply filled his lyrics with non-sequiturs.
The thing was created in the studio. It’s gobbledygook; Come Together was an expression that Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and tried, but I couldn’t come up with one. But I came up with this, Come Together, which would’ve been no good to him – you couldn’t have a campaign song like that, right?
–John Lennon, All We Are Saying, David Sheff
- 1.Come Together
- 2.Something
- 4.Oh! Darling
- 8.Because
- 10.Sun King
- 11.Mean Mr. Mustard
- 12.Polythene Pam
- 14.Golden Slumbers
- 16.The End
- 17.Her Majesty
No, the Justice League one is a cover by Gary Clark Jr. and Junky XL
Anyone else think it’s funny that John Lennon said shoot me? And then “come together over me” as if at a funeral?
After reading Sir Paul’s interview in GQ last year where he recounts the band’s early antics that they did to pass time, I now think of a completely different meaning to “come together”
The cover of this song by Aerosmith can be found in the soundtrack to the movie “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.
That sounds like pure speculation (referring to the explanation of the line “Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease”). Unless you have a quote of John saying that was what he said in the recording, you can’t say that for sure. It makes perfect sense as “hold you in his arms till you can feel his disease”. Note “arms till” not “arms yeah”.
Also covered by Ike & Tina Turner
