What do The Beatles mean by ‘Glass Onion’?

Not everything that John Lennon put into his songs for The Beatles was meant to make the most sense. It was hard enough trying to find out what some of his psychedelic songs were about in the early days, and it was bound to be tough trying to find some kind of internal meaning behind a tune like ‘I Am the Walrus’. But whereas those songs were the equivalent of musical tone painting, anyone who tries to decipher what every line in ‘Glass Onion’ is truly about is fighting a losing battle.Lennon had already started to catch on to the fact that people were trying to read into things on every one of his records, so the next best thing for him to do was make something that deliberately messed them up. He already found it funny that people were trying to figure out if Paul McCartney was really killed in a car accident in 1966, so when he threw in lines about how Macca was the Walrus, it sent some theorists into overdrive trying to figure out what he really meant.
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