Jik

[Jikanu]

So you're saying that the drugs didn't influence the songs? You think someone sober would have written "We all live in a yellow submarine" or "I am the Walrus" or "Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing me "?

Drugs had an influence, but not as much as their songwriting capabilities. Deffinitely in Yellow Submarine and I Am the Walrus, but in Across the Universe, i think it was more influenced by their time meditating and stuff than the drugs. Across the Universe is more poetic than weird. the "pools of sorrow, waves of joy" line seems to be describing life in general.