Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah
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
Livin' life in peace
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'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
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah
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
Livin' life in peace
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'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
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
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Read the nonsense above.......
Read the song......
That's what John was getting at, Imagine if we could get over ourselves and live for what's important.
Things like religion, countries, and money are the reasons for war and fighting, and if there was none of this then there'd be no war. And by religion I think John is saying that organized religion is the problem and not just believe in God because I don't see how that would adversely affect world peace. I think he's talking about how theres so much fighting in places like the middle east because of religion, even though the religions are very similar like all religions are.
This song doesn't have to be taken literally. It's all metaphor for being able to detach yourself from the world around you...
In other words: you took a nice shit today, and you're happy. You don't need anybody to tell you this, or why this happened. And no need for your shit to appear on television news, or in a newspaper. And imagine if all things were that simple... well, people just never look on things the way they really are.
Now go watch your television and stay blinded
Everyone should be religious in their own way, and believe how and what their soul or spirit wants to believe and practice.
Ha ha Martina told it like it is.
Nothing against Lennon or the Beatles, but . . .
this is a lame-ass overplayed anthem for Lexus-lib progressives who fancy themselves to be globally enlightened when, apart from the sovereign intervention of Almighty God, they are actually going to hell for rejecting Christ's gracious offer of forgiveness and eternal life through faith.
This song shows a sterile and naive vision of an antichrist world, humanity united against God, as they were at Babel.
To hell with One World Globohomo culture!
To hell with Commie-ism in all it's varied permutations and disguises.
It is people like you, obviously needing your possessions and God for support, that make his ideal unrealized.
"Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can..."
while i like this song regardless of its meaning, i sometimes wonder if, while sounding so simple and hopeful, he's really pointing out that we DON'T live as one, and so on... and that we never really can. all of this is just a fantasy... not realized, and never will be.
but maybe that's just me.
Doesn't anyone notice that this looks like a world wide communist country?!!!!
This song is really about non-conformity. We usually are so used to believing that imagining is to *construct* something but here he challenges us to imagine by *destructing* in the sense- imagine there’s NO heaven.
He’s also quite sarcastic, John Lennon hated conformity (“A couple of teachers would notice me, encourage me to be something or other, to draw or to paint– express myself. But most of the time they were trying to beat me into being a fuckin’ dentist or a teacher. And then the fuckin’ fans tried to beat me into being a fuckin’ Beatle or an Engelbert Humperdinck, and the critics tried to beat me into being Paul McCartney. “) and here is literally mocking conformity (which i hate too, hence this interpretation). People are so used to believe that heaven,religion,countries, are necessary for man to exist (Go and tell someone to think of a world without any countries or borders, 99% you get a flat out refusal that “it’s not possible”).
“You may say I’m a dreamer”...was a bit harder to interpret (did it on acid though). It seems like he’s rallying for peace, but he’s not. What John is basically saying is how people are so ready to label the different and uniques ones in the world as “crazy” and is saying he’s not the only dreamer, the only who’s calling him a dreamer is also a dreamer.
Sorry If I couldn’t explain properly but those were my thoughts.
Ah, the genius of John....