Posted on 03/12/2015 12:49:36 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Lest we forget the damage done to the moral fabric of our nation by Satan's minstrels, here are the lyrics to "Imagine" by John Lennon. A song still prominently played at most major venues and poignant to all but those who actually understand its horrifying "fundamentally transformed" implications...
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will live as one
Crazy...but I know pretty much all the lyrics to all the songs. Still wake up with them in my head some times...
‘Imagine’ was just Lennon expressing an empty-headed sentimentalism that sounded good to him.
He wasn’t religious so this is the sort of utopian nonsense that would pop into his head. The flaws in it are obvious to anyone who thinks about the lyrics in anything other than the superficial way that it was written.
There may be a little uneasiness with his own astounding material success mixed in as well. He probably grew up hearing the rich regarded as objects of scorn and here he was, one of them in spades.
And I never could figure out why “no heaven” is better than “heaven.”
No Heaven-no God. No God=I can do anything I want.
Whenever I hear “Imagine”, I always picture rows and rows of slack-jawed freaks, stoned out of their minds, aware of very little. Only such a person would have nothing to kill or die for.
My Daughter was given a song title in English class and told to write about it, she was given Imagine and wrote that it was about socialism and the refutation of religion. We were talking about it a family gathering and my liberal SIL went over the edge saying my daughter had it all wrong about the song. Funny thing my daughter got an “A” on the assignment, she was lucky the teacher wasn’t a liberal nutter!
Good for you...
I was just going to post that “Revolution” is kind of an antedote for “Imagine”...and a much better song overall.
We don’t have to imagine. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Chavez, and Castro all demonstrated what John Lennon’s laughably absurd song imagined.
Cynthia Lennon’s book John talks about how
she was dumped for Yoko,who treated
her and Julian rudely and swindled him
out an inhetitance etc
So i gotta post this again from
Natl Lampoon’s fictional Letters FROM
The Editors after John’s death.
Dear sirs—Imagine no possessions?
What a terrible,terrible thought.-—
Yoko Ono, New York City
‘
The "Georgia Guidestones" are another example of this illogical weirdness.
If only he had imagined a bullet proof vest.
I’ve read that, but I do believe he’d be an Obama-lovin’ thorn in our side by now. I’m not a huge fan of the Beatles, but I do like the music he was doing right at the end. The critics didn’t, but Watchin’ the Wheels and Just Like Starting Over are good. I wish he was a thorn in our side now. To be murdered by a clown you were trying to be nice to. . . .
LMAO. That is just so wrong.
For one thing, I found the public views of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the 1970s-vintage nonsense of overpopulation was remarkable:
Another fascinating story I heard some years ago was from a DJ on a New York City radio station who described how he would frequently see John Lennon driving around in Manhattan in his ridiculously expensive Bentley. And almost every time this guy saw Lennon driving in the warmer weather, the windows of the car would be down and he could hear the same song playing on the car stereo.
The song was "A White Shade Of Pale" by Procul Harum.
John Lennon born again.....
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/januaryweb-only/001-22.0.html
John Lennon - You Saved My Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QooU51gNQgc
Interview of John Lennon Strongly Embracing Chrisianity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0EmEj3E1fg
Revolution was critical of the concept of revolution.
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