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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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