10 Classic Songs That Aren't As Serious As You Think

As the '60s Revolution started to get underway, the Beatles were starting to get treated like more than just your average musicians. Off the strength of albums like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Fab Four were being treated like gods among men, with listeners dissecting what their lyrics meant at every turn. It would seem that John Lennon was aware of this too, and decided to truly mess with some heads on Glass Onion.

When assembling tracks for what would become the White Album, Lennon used this song to have a field day with everyone who read too much into the band's lyrics, as he packs line after line with references to the band's own songs. Just a casual listen to something like this will show references to Fixing a Hole, Strawberry Fields Forever, and the Fool on the Hill in prominent positions, as Lennon asks you to look through the glass onion of reality.

At the end of the day though, these weren't supposed to mean anything in particular, with Lennon casually joking that the public will have to figure it out for themselves and make their own conclusions about what the hell it all means. In a world that seems all about having definitive meanings on what songs are about, this probably is the first case of an artist actively trolling his audience.