The song includes the following lyrics:
Everybody’s smoking and no one’s getting high,
Everybody’s flying and never touch the sky.
There’s UFOs over New York and I ain’t too surprised.Nobody told me there’d be days like these.
Strange days indeed.
Here’s the full album sleeve drawing by John Lennon in 1974.
The album sleeve was originally expected to bring in between $1600 to $2500, but ended up selling for just over $16,600.
In a radio interview, Lennon described the unexplained circular object this way — it was summer in New York and he was relaxing by an open window:
Lo and behold, there was this thing just hovering about 100 yards away. I saw it so close…I could’ve hit it with a brick if I’d thrown a stone at it.
I couldn’t see the colors because it was dusk, a good clear summer night, and around the bottom of it were just ordinary-looking electric light bulbs, blinking off and on alternatively, like on a billboard, and on the top of it was a red light.
And the thing I noticed was that there was no noise … so I realized it’s not a helicopter, then it must be a balloon … [but it was] maneuvering too well to be a balloon. So I just watched it … for about five or 10 minutes [and] it went off down the East River.
Listen to a radio interview of John Lennon describing his 1974 UFO sighting over New York City.
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