Real Story behind "Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed"

          Juan Carrón Gañàn, the real-life teacher who made this trip,  asked Lennon to make corrections in his notebook. Carron Ganan  used to listen to Radio Luxembourg and write down the lyrics of their songs as he heard them, but he couldn't get the lyrics from the Revolver album right because they were starting to use more "psychedelic" words. When they met, the teacher gave him the notebook and Lennon corrected the lyrics and filled in the gaps. He also corrected errors in the transcriptions of songs written by Paul McCartney and George Harrison – 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'Taxman'.”

            Juan Carrón Gañàn is now 88 years old and still teaching English. “The notebook still exists,” says Trueba.  We are told at the end of the movie that after Ganan's  meeting with John Lennon, The Beatles included printed sheets of their song lyrics

Lennon said Santa Isabel, where they were filming, reminded him of a Salvation Army garden near his childhood home in Liverpool called Strawberry Fields.  It appears that Trueba saw "Strawberry Fields" as a song about childhood loneliness and isolation, but it was actually a refuge from those feelings--a place of comfort, according to John Lennon's Aunt Mimi, who said "'As soon as we could hear the Salvation Army Band starting, John would jump up and down shouting "Mimi, come on. We're going to be late."'  He and his childhood friends often played in the wooded area behind the building, which Lennon nicknamed in the plural "Strawberry Fields."

Let me take you down
Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone
But it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me

Let me take you down
Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever

No one I think is in my tree
I mean it must be high or low
That is you can't, you know, tune in
But it's all right
That is I think it's not too bad

Let me take you down
Cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever