“It’s gobbledygook; ‘Come Together’ was an expression that Timothy Leary had come up with for his attempt at being president or whatever he wanted to be, and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and tried, but I couldn’t come up with one. But I came up with this, ‘Come Together’, which would have been no good to him – you couldn’t have a campaign song like that, right?” — Why not, John (on the genesis of “Come Together”)? Right? April 18, 2013 by Daimian Holiday Scott