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They were saying, "We know you guys think we're the biggest thing ever, and we might be. But when it comes down to it, we're just normal guys who get sick of each other and the world around us."
 
== "Molly Jones" in The Beatles' "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" is [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Malone:Molly Malone|Molly Malone]], and the song is her fevered, dying dream. ==
Molly of "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" is the famous Dublin fishmonger, overworking herself (eventually contracting a fatal fever in doing so) trying to put food on the table for her lazy, shiftless husband Desmond (whose only occupation is singing in a band, though he rarely makes any money from it) and their children. The song is her dying dream, brought about by the fever, in which their roles are reversed, Desmond is a successful fishmonger, and the family lives in relative comfort. (The reversal of "Desmond" and "Molly" in the final verse is a clue to the true situation.) "Life goes on" in the chorus is a particularly cruel irony, since life will not go on for Molly.
 
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== The Walrus and the Sun King are one and the same, an evil mastermind attempting an [[Assimilation Plot]]. ==
No, this theory isn't a joke. No more than any of the other theories on this page, anyway. So, let's pretend these two songs have a plot. It starts out with a normal man obtaining mind control powers by an unknown means -- [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|let's just say it involved copious amounts of LSD]]. Realizing the influence he could obtain with these powers, he sets out to [[Assimilation Plot|assimilate the entire population of the world into his mind]] and, having always been a fan of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', renames himself "The Walrus" after [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walrus_and_the_Carpenter:The Walrus and the Carpenter|another famous evil manipulator]]. The events of "I Am the Walrus" tell the story of one of the Walrus's early victims, an unidentified man who finds himself unable to fight the Walrus's hypnotic power. He exclaims "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" as he feels his mind being pooled into the Walrus's alongside several others, finally giving in and admitting "I am the Walrus!". The rest of the song consists mostly of [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|disjointed]] [[Word Salad Lyrics|nonsense]] as the protagonist's mind melds with that of other victims around him and is finally subdued at the hands of the Walrus. However, it should be noted that there are a few cryptic references to apparent survivors of this attack ("See how they run like pigs from a gun," "Naughty girl," "Naughty boy"), indicating that the Walrus still has a long way to go before his goals are achieved.
 
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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France: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 "[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mBzPmZhM210J:www.beatlesinterviews.org/dba11road.html+%22beatlesinterviews.org%22+%22Abbey+Road%22+%22chicka+ferdy%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com 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]].
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== Paul McCartney can fly ==
We see him do it in the videos for "Off the Ground" and "Your Loving Flame." It's uncertain if he can take off without help, but once he's in the air, he can fly skillfully and even hover.
* Well of course he can, he's [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead:Paul is dead|dead.]] Angel wings and all.
** Or he's just good at [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|missing the ground]].
* Of course he could fly. After all, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|he's got Wings.]] But even after he lost his [[Wings (Music)|Wings]] around 1980, he could fly. The Wings were decorative.
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