Editing Penny Lane (section)

===Lyrics===
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Lyrically there are several ambiguous and surreal images. The song is seemingly narrated on a fine summer day ("beneath the blue suburban skies"), yet at the same time it is raining ("the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain") and approaching winter ("selling poppies from a tray" implies [[Remembrance Day]], 11 November). MacDonald stated: "Seemingly naturalistic, the lyric scene is actually kaleidoscopic. As well as raining and shining at the same time, it is simultaneously summer and winter."{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|page=179}} The fireman and fire engine referred to in the lyrics were based on memories of the fire station at Mather Avenue,{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=307}} while the barber shop was Bioletti's, where McCartney, Harrison and Lennon each had their hair cut as children.{{sfn|Turner|2012|pp=132, 133}} The line "A four of fish and finger pies" is British slang. "A four of fish" refers to [[Penny (English coin)|fourpennyworth]] of [[fish and chips]], while "finger pie" is sexual slang for [[Fingering (sexual act)|fingering]].<ref name="Blinded">{{cite book|last=Mann|first=Brent|year=2005|title=Blinded by the Lyrics: Behind the Lines of Rock & Roll's Most Baffling Songs|page=171|location=New York, NY|publisher=Citadel Press|isbn=978-08065-2695-9}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|According to MacDonald, this phrase was most likely Lennon's idea.{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|page=222fn}}}}

According to music critic and musicologist [[Wilfrid Mellers]], writing in his 1973 book ''Twilight of the Gods'': "For both musical and verbal reasons, the song comes out as childishly merry yet dreamily wild at the same time. The hallucinatory feeling concerns problems of identity rather than drugs specifically, asking what, among our childhood memories, is reality and what is illusion."{{sfn|Everett|1999|pp=86, 331}}