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Jun 28th 2012!⃝Lennon in this period started to write a few songs about his childhood and life on the advice of a journalist. In My Life was the first. Strawberry Field IS an orphange next to Lennon's aunt's house.
Lennon's childhood was quite traumatic and my interpretation of the song is that he used to visit Strawberry Field when he needed an escape. "Let me take you down" meaning getting down to earth, off a high horse.
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see" He shut his eyes to the harsh reality of his life and created his own imaginary world. "It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn’t matter much to me." Sometimes its hard to escape, but it doesn't matter who he is, just as long as he isn't the unwanted weird child.
"No one I think is in my tree.I mean it must be high or low. That is you can’t, you know, tune in but it’s all right. That is I think it’s not too bad." No one is in his world, his world is for him and him alone. It is unique and a special place. He doesn't mind that no one is with him. He doesn't want anyone with him.
"Always, no sometimes, think it’s me,
But you know I know when it’s a dream." Sometimes he really wants it all to be true, or gets so caught up in his imagination that he forgets reality.
The title "Strawberry Fields Forever" means never let go of your imagination, your escape. Keep it forever.
For me the music is wonderful. The kind of weird, wonderful, haunting, beautiful music that you expect in a weird wonderful place that Lennon went to when he went down to Strawberry Fields.
