Isn't it good, Norwegian wood?

I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me...
She showed me her room, isn't it good, Norwegian wood?

She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere,
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair.

I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine.
We talked until two and then she said, "It's time for bed"

She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke, I was alone, this bird had flown
So I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood.

Who knows whatinthehell this song is about. Stealing opines from another site:

“There is NO wood in the room, that is why he sat on the floor...get it. there is a old line about there are no trees in Norway, so when someone says that their decor is "Norwegian wood" it means they have NO furniture, get it...”

Another's take:

“This song is about a girl.. that said.. when the Beatles were introduced to marijuana by Bob Dylan.. it definitely influenced/changed the style/sound of their music... and Norweigian wood was code for marijuana.”


Still another, Paul himself:

McCartney said the final line of the song indicates that the singer burned the home of the girl:

Peter Asher [brother of McCartney's then-girlfriend Jane Asher] had his room done out in wood, a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine, really, cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, "Cheap Pine", baby. So it was a little parody really on those kind of girls who when you'd go to their flat there would be a lot of Norwegian wood. It was completely imaginary from my point of view but in John's it was based on an affair he had. This wasn't the decor of someone's house, we made that up. So she makes him sleep in the bath and then finally in the last verse I had this idea to set the Norwegian wood on fire as revenge, so we did it very tongue in cheek. She led him on, then said, "You'd better sleep in the bath." In our world the guy had to have some sort of revenge ... so it meant I burned the f-ing place down …

This guy's take:

“John Lennon is a very good musician and this song proves it.This is also really good because it's one of his first full story songs.This is about a boy who goes to a girls house,he wants to (you know) and she doesn't want to so she lets him go sleep on his own then when he wakes up she's gone he's mad so he burns her house.IT'S COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!JUST LISTEN TO THE LYRICS!!!Anyway great song!”

Finally..

“You guys are all stupid, listen to the song, interpret it how you will, but don't debate about it. This is almost as stupid as arguing religion, or politics... Nobody wins, but everybody thinks they're right.”

My own simple take (Victor, you made us read this whole GD [gosh darn] thing just to get to here?... yes, sorry).. “I only wish first dates with whatshername #1 and whatshername #2 woulda ended like this.”

Isn't it good, Norwegian wood? Love, Victurd