According to McCartney, fans might find themselves in a similar situation with his solo work. He said that some of the lyrics in one song had no meaning behind them.
In the song “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey,” which has recently received an increase in interest on social media, McCartney sings “the butter wouldn’t melt so I put it in the pie.”
“No, there’s no meaning behind it. Because I like surrealist art, I also like surrealist words,” he said, on his official website. “A great example of this is Lewis Carroll writing Alice in Wonderland – it’s a crazy thing, you’ve got a cat sitting in a tree that grins and talks, and you’ve got Alice falling down a hole and meeting the red queen, and so on.”
He said that a great joy of songwriting for him was the ability to create surrealist imagery.
“I’d always liked writing love songs, ballads, and rock ‘n’ roll songs, but then one of my other little side interests was to invent surrealist stuff. Admiral Halsey was someone I’d read about – he’s a character from American history – and I just liked the name,” he said. “I was playing around with that and making up a fictional story, and I just ran into the words ‘and butter pie’. Well, there’s no such thing as a butter pie, that I’ve ever heard of anyway. So, it was a surrealist image, like in surreal art where you have a thing called a ‘hair cup’, which is just a cup that’s made out of fur. You wouldn’t think to drink from it, it’d be disgusting, but as an image it’s interesting and shocking. ‘Butter pie’ is that kind of equivalent, but in a song.”
McCartney said that part of the fun of writing surrealist lyrics was that he then could sing the song more playfully.
“It also depends on how seriously you want to sing a song,” “If the lyrics are a bit zany then you end up having fun with the vocal, like you’re a character.”
“I’m inspired by people like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, who did a song called ‘I Put A Spell On You’. When I first heard it I couldn’t believe the way he was using his voice, I thought, ‘wow, this guy is singing far out’!” he said. “‘Monkberry Moon Delight’ was definitely influenced by ‘Put A Spell On You’, because it doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s a light relief from the serious world.”
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