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It's hard to see how John could have dismissed 'And Your Bird Can Sing' as a "horror" (1971) and a "throwaway" (1980) even if the lyrics at first seem a bit impenetrable. But John had always known how to play games. He suspected that even some of Dylan's lyrics were garbage dressed up as poetry and claimed he could do the same himself. At the time, with its talk of green birds, prized possessions and seven wonders it was assumed that with 'And Your Bird Can Sing' John was probably really into something: that he'd had a vision of another dimension which most people couldn't fathom. Whereas in 1964 he would have knocked off a made-to-measure love song to fill out the empty spaces on an LP, by 1966, and under pressure, he was capable up with a perfectly tailored piece of meaningless psychedelia. |
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