“IMAGINE” REVISITED ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF JOHN LENNON’S DEATH

 

Dec 8, 1980 was the music world’s version of Dec 7, 1941. The day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. John Lennon’s senseless death on this day 31 years ago has many celebrating his music and life this week. Shock and Awesome will do so, by looking back on the lyrics of “Imagine” through the lense of world events happening today.

 

IMAGINE by John Lennon 

 

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try (For politicians trying to win the religious right vote. Be yourselves. Stop sucking up to ‘em.)
No hell below us
Above us only sky (Government has no right telling us what is morally right and wrong. Freedom means choice. Stay out of our personal lives and bedrooms Big Brother.)
Imagine all the people
Living for today… (Arab Spring, Occupy Wall st and Russia protests..Everyone living today is worried about tomorrow.)

 

 

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do (The U.S couldn’t..In fact, it still moronically invaded countries (Iraq) even though it was attacked in ’01 by a borderless terror network.)
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too (No killing? Impossible. The world still loves war. Religion still rules our “land of the free” America. Free if you live by the “good book” that is.)
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…  (It’s actually easier these days to imagine all the people living life in anger and hate than in love and peace..)

 

 

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 (You’re not the only dreamer John, but less Americans today really see the American Dream becoming a reality.)

 

 

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can (We can, and we do. We own nothing now. Our homes got foreclosed and our savings are gone. Thanks Bernie Madoff.)
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man (CEO bonuses still as popular as Sinatra songs are around Christmas time. The poor are getting poorer and many lack employment too.)
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… (We are sharing the world right now. On the streets and pissed off, but not unified globally..Yet.)

 

 

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 (We DO live as one world. In our collective desire to own Apple products.)