Yer Blues - Lyrics

Lyrics

Containing multiple references to suicide, the lyrics to the song are remarkably dark for lyrics of the time period. They are also ripe with references to pop culture (containing a reference to Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man") and cosmology, and were possibly symbolic of Lennon's well-documented battles with his psychological demons. Lennon said in a Rolling Stone interview that he used the humorous title as something of a defence mechanism, so that if anyone criticised the song, he could write it off as a parody; otherwise he claimed to be sincere about the song's content. In the original demo of the song, Lennon sings "I feel so insecure, just like Dylan's Mr. Jones".