Comments on: I Found Out

By: Hammer And Sickle

Hammer And Sickle — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 22:44:20 +0000

The “Brother, brother, brother, brother” line’s could also refer to comrade so in that essence communists as well? So he’s also spitting vitrolic language a them. Maybe I don’t know.

By: Water Falls

Water Falls — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 03:46:14 +0000

Seems that if it was aimed at George, John would have sang
“from Jesus to Krishna”.
I think it was aimed at Paul…not the one who had a “come-to- Jesus” conversion on the road to Damascus, or Pope Pius VI…
Paul McCartney. John was obsessed with Paul.

By: Joseph Brush

Joseph Brush — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:02:25 +0000

The reference to “Paul” in I Found Out could be towards Pope Pius V1, who was the current Pope at the time this song was released. He was in the news often because he travelled all over the world, the first Pope to do so.

By: manteau

manteau — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:49:23 +0000

No, folks , the “jesus to paul” line means the distorsion of the first christians according to John, saul ( That is paul for us caucasians) had twisted the message of jesus so christianity became paulanism, quite removed from its original form, John knew that, no argument!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:28:34 +0000

I always heard that part of the song was a dig at George as well. Given George’s spirituality.

And yeah, that Paul in the lyric has to be Macca.

By: Jeffrey Frentzen

Jeffrey Frentzen — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 05:18:03 +0000

I thought the song was aimed at Harrison.

By: Charlotte Bowen

Charlotte Bowen — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:20:22 +0000

Frankly I think it is a dig (another in his endless collection) at Paul. It really grew tiresome.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 04:32:28 +0000

Paul the apostle- he wrote about a third of the New Testament.

By: Darren J Ray

Darren J Ray — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 04:07:36 +0000

“I’ve seen religion from Jesus to Paul”. Maybe John was referring to Pope Paul. Thoughts?

By: John Bailo

John Bailo — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:19:13 +0000

I just recently started listening to this song a bit (always loved Working Class Hero).

It strikes me, John and Yoko on hearing punk and new wave artists said “yeah, we were doing that way back when”. I kind of wrote that off as being a bit of exaggeration.

But with “I Found Out” they really have a case of claiming to have been years ahead of the “avante-garde” because it sounds so far away from 1970 and more like 1978.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:53:20 +0000

The line “I told you before/stay away from my door” seems to be a reference to the song Revolution with a similar theme of telling supporters of various causes, this-ists and that-ists to stop looking to John for support.

By: Tweeze

Tweeze — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:42:59 +0000

Yet another example of John edging his guitar into a tone that ends up being exactly what the song needs. Incredible distortion. It sounds less like a guitar and moves closer to being part of the percussion a la Bo-Diddley. What I always found interesting is that the guitar seems to be repeating the word ‘bitch bitch’ as if to accent that the song is, in fact, one big bitch session for John. It is intended to raise your hackles as it even seems to be insulting you – the audience (not the only instance on this album). It’s not a great song but it isn’t supposed to be anything more that a vehicle for John to gripe – and somehow it ends up being fascinating nonetheless.