10 Songs That Are Impossible To Understand

When talking about some of the greatest songwriters in the world, it almost feels like a cliche putting the Beatles among that kind of company. As much as they have been talked up and overexplained throughout the years, the writing of John Lennon and Paul McCartney has always been able to strike a nerve with the public, having just the right amount of conviction and sincerity to bring the tune across. Then again, you sometimes need to write something like I Am the Walrus to avoid getting too pretentious.

Amid the slew of new influences they were receiving during the Summer of Love, John Lennon found it amusing that schoolteachers around England were actually teaching Beatles' lyrics in their classes to distinguish what they really meant. Being one of the first instances of musical trolling, Lennon actually wrote a jab at those critics with I Am the Walrus, with a lyric sheet designed to be nonsense.

Interspersed with some of the most avant garde production ever to be heard on a mainstream song, Lennon waxes poetic on everything from being the eggman to policemen standing in a row to the pleasures of sitting on a cornflake. Although you won't have much luck diving into the lyrics of this one, I Am the Walrus is a song more artistic for its sound than its actual literary prowess.