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{{quote|"I am the eggman. I am the eggman, I am the walrus. (Goo goo g'joob.)" }}
 
It seems to list multiple things that a person is ("[[A God Am I|I am god!]] [[ThisPunctuated! IsFor! SpartaEmphasis!|I AM GOD!]] I Am The Ruler Of All Things!), rather than multiple beings. The walrus ate the penguin that laid the egg that is humanity ("I am the eggman, they are the eggman")- an egg created in god's image but immeasureably less complex. Then the "egg-man" rises as a walrus to overthrow the penguin. ("I am human. I am human- yet I am greater than god!" A stealth Bigger Than Jesus.) Humans are now as the yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye- meaningless filth in comparison to the narrator's godhood. The elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna and pornographic priestess bits are saying, "Worship me! And if you're a hot female, worship me naked! You, god, are lower than me, so sing my praises!" The Joker is a reference to both a deck of cards, and how the most worthless card in the deck, a pitiful mortal, is now one of the greatest beings in existence, unfathomable to those who play, let alone the other cards- the Jokers from ''[[The Dark Side of the Sun]]''. The first line is about [[Instrumentality]], and the second (see how they run, ''et al''.) is the other mortals refusing to join him in ascendance. The first verse (sitting on a cornflake/corporation t-shirts to See how they run/I'm cryin') is the narrator's interpretation of a protest as being a service held in his honor, then trying to fight off the puny mortal police and his delusion of "scaring them off". The last verse until the end of the song is fading into deeper and deeper disconnection from reality, why it seems to get so much creepier and mixed up with radio broadcasts at the end.
* Joke's on you, bub. Lennon said he wrote that song as a sort of prank for the express purpose of creating [[Wild Mass Guessing]]. An early case of [[The Walrus Was Paul]] before they did it again in the [[Trope Namer]], "Glass Onion".
** That's what he ''wanted'' the squares to think. John was prone to [[Flip-Flop of God|flip-flops of God.]]
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By the time we see him again in "Sun King," though, the Walrus has come a lot closer. Having finally subjugated most of the world into his [[Hive Mind]], he has renamed himself "The Sun King" after [[wikipedia:Louis XIV of France|another famous absolute ruler]]. (Let's say this guy was also a pretty big history buff.) The song tells the story of yet another victim as he is ambushed by the Sun King and his legions of mindless slaves—He states "Here come the Sun King" (specifically using the plural form of "comes"—come on, listen to the song and tell me if you hear an 's') in reference to his attackers all sharing the same [[Hive Mind]]. Unable and even unwilling to resist the now absurdly powerful Sun King, the protagonist slips into a state of euphoria as his mind is assimilated, explaining the song's [[Soundtrack Dissonance|completely happy]] (if surreal) tone and lines such as "Everybody's laughing / Everybody's happy" (refering to the mindless docility of the Sun King's followers) -- None of the vague desperation of "I Am the Walrus" remains. As the protagonist loses his coherence and feels his mind being pooled into those of the world-spanning army around him, he slips into the native languages of his fellow victims, spouting several multilingual nonsense words.
 
And one of these phrases is "[https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/6BqIAjpVq?url=web/20130202005244/http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/dba11road.html chicka ferdy]," a contribution from the protagonist himself that he recalled from his childhood in Liverpool as his dying thought. Yes, with this final breath, [[Paul McCartney]] slipped from the conscious world and died, his mind completely and utterly inhabited by that of the Sun King/the Walrus, [[John Lennon]]. And [[The Walrus Was Paul]].
 
=== ''Here Comes The Sun'' is a father comforting his daughter [[Just Before the End]] ===
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** It kinda makes sense. Maybe he changed because he was spending his time making psychic children... Great, now we all need [[Brain Bleach]].
 
=== Alternatively, Paul is dead, but [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Van Hohenheim]] was such a fan that he decided to look like Paul ===
 
=== Or...Paul is dead, but was brought back to life by a [[Green Lantern|Black Lantern Ring.]] ===
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