Unfortunately I have not lived a single day of my life at the same time John Lennon.
I was born nearly three years after his murder, but would be great to live "live" his person. The Beatles, the pop history, but also his relationship with Yoko Ono, the performance art, protests against the Vietnam War, poetry and music.
Thirty years after "Imagine", how much more there is to do and fight.
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 Is not Hard
to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too
Imagine all the people Living life in peace
You May Say That I'ma dreamer
But I'm not the only one I hope someday
'll 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 May Say That I'ma dreamer
but I'm not the only one I hope someday
you'll join us And the
world will live as one
The lyrics of the song is usually lettoin key pacifist, but Lennon himself admitted that the contents of the text Imagine the nearer to the "Manifesto Communist Party "which is a hymn to peace. Lennon said that the song was "anti-religious, anti-nationalist, anti-conventional and anti-capitalist, and is only accepted because it is covered with sugar."
What more
To remain an area of \u200b\u200bpacifism, which is more representative of Give Peace a Chance?
The song was written during the famous honeymoon Bed-In Lennon and Yoko Ono: When a reporter asked them what they thought to gain by sitting in bed, Lennon replied spontaneously:
"All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance" (All we are saying is give peace a chance) to Lennon phrase liked it and decided to tacking around a song.
Imagine and Give Peace A Chance are two extremes of a musical universe divided between poetry and civil message, including political activism and art.
Finally, here is another text in the balance between poetry and social commitment, perhaps less common, because more explicit and strong: A Working Class Hero As soon as
you're born They make you feel small By giving you
no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
Till you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can’t really function you’re so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and class less and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If You Want to be a hero well just follow me
The song is about insensitivity caused by social conditions, saying that in this society only "comply" is rewarding. The freedom and a society no longer divided into classes are designed for the purpose of myths obscure our fundamental lack of control over our lives, while the media, religion, sexuality and marketed drugs, legal or not, all conspire in the same way to dampen our desire for social change.
's thesis Lennon is that we can be controlled easily because we allow our imaginations to be clipped wings.
The title of "working class hero" John would have been applied to over the years by fans, but his original intention was not this, in fact, declared that he only hoped that the song became a hymn of employees " and liked what he liked Give Peace a Chance . (Cft. Wikipedia)
's thesis Lennon is that we can be controlled easily because we allow our imaginations to be clipped wings.
The title of "working class hero" John would have been applied to over the years by fans, but his original intention was not this, in fact, declared that he only hoped that the song became a hymn of employees " and liked what he liked Give Peace a Chance . (Cft. Wikipedia)
... Dear John, you do not know what the world would still need you. ☮ & ♥ RIP
"We use advertising. Everybody in this country uses advertising, including politicians, the Biafrans, the Vietnamese, everybody. I use advertising to promote what I think. And I think ‘peace’. So I promote it by using a technique called advertising…”
John Lennon, 1969
“You know, give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it. It’s damn hard, but I absolutely believe it.
We’re not the first to say, ‘Imagine no countries’ or ‘Give Peace A Chance’, but we’re carrying that torch, like the Olympic torch, passing it from hand to hand, to Each Other, To Each country, To Each generation. That's our job. "
John Lennon, 1980
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