Cynthia Lennon Julian and me". Lennon replied with, "OK, I know, we'll all retire to a little cottage on a cliff in Cornwall, all right?" Then adding, "No, I've got these bloody songs to write. I have to work, to justify living." She understood his temperament, but felt frustrated at never having developed her own career by using her art college background. The Beatles were scheduled to fly to India to visit the Maharishi for two or three months of Transcendental Meditation. Before they left, Cynthia found letters from Yoko Ono to Lennon which indicated he had had contact with her over
Mother (John Lennon song) a funeral bell tolling slowly, four times. The song ends with Lennon initially singing the phrase ""Mama don't go, daddy come home"", but then screaming as the song fades out. Lennon was inspired to write the song after undergoing primal therapy with Arthur Janov, originally at their home at Tittenhurst Park and then at the Primal Institute, California, where they remained for four months. Lennon, who eventually derided Janov, initially described the therapy as "something more important to me than The Beatles". Although Lennon said that "Mother" was the song that "seemed to catch in my head", he had doubts