Imagine, John Lennon
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
Ah, ah, ah-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
Living life in peace
Yoo-hoo, ooh-ooh
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
Yoo-hoo, ooh-ooh
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
I hate this song
Me too. I also hate yoko
And of course he wrote that while living in his penthouse. Fuck John Lennon.
Just said the same thing! Keke
I’m pretty sure the Beatles were a psyop. Not only is it seemingly impossible to write that many hits in such a short period of time, but the powers that be seem to have used them to pioneer the now Nickelodeon Method of developing a wholesome star and then converting them to a degenerate in the public eye (eg Miley Cyrus).
In half a decade they went from singing about wanting to hold your hand to leading and normalizing the drug fuelled Marxo-hippie movement.
He said he was naive when he wrote this. I wouldn't look too deep into it. He saw people divided by religion, and by greed. It wasn't so much a call to communism as it was a call to peace and an end to greed. Greed which leads to poverty and oppression. Religion which leads to war.
I think a lot of people took his words and twisted the hell out of them, and he hated the song because of it.
This.
He’s on record admitting it was hippy spew.
I hate that it’s made it into the mainstream Christmas rotation this song of garbage
Walking it back to try and stay relevant
What he wrote was twisted into something he didn't mean, and he was naive to think a world like that could exist, anyway. It had NOTHING to do with communism. Why would he write, "Nothing to kill or die for" if he supported communism, which did nothing but kill millions upon millions of innocent people?
If we want to talk about musical influence on pop culture, why don't we look at all the hair bands of the 80s that tried to look like women?
I agree with you there. It's just that John Lennon was not advocating killing to get there. is song got twisted into something he never meant.
In my humble opinion, Paul McCartney is the real useful idiot. John was naive and idealistic. Paul is just a shill for the evil establishment.
At least you understand the meaning of Useful Idiot.
"Nothing to kill or die for"
Like I said, he said he was naive when he wrote it. That line just proves he wasn't a communist, because communism was killing a hell of a lot of people in the 60s.
I get it, some people hate Lennon, but trying to say this song is somehow responsible for the idiots of today is pretty naive itself.
Idiots like the rest of us are responsible for ourselves , even if many don't accept it.
John just a useful tool of the Communists...even if he didn't know. SUPREMACISTs seek the oblivious out for easier programing.
ex: Aum Shinrikyo
"The impetus for the cult was its founder's religious fervor, which emerged in 1986 as an eclectic mix of Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, and Christian beliefs. Aum's official recognition as a religious organization qualified it to pursue its activities without oversight from Japanese authorities. Cult leaders' efforts to control followers intensified and expanded to efforts to gain political control of the country through the election process."
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/faith-fanaticism-and-fear-aum-shinrikyo-birth-and-death-terrorist
Just as the OP is naive about 50 years:
"Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion."
(Didn't want to use the Rosenbergs as an example)
Lennon, living in his penthouse, driving his Rolls Royce, traveling the globe on a private plane, sings a song about EVERYBODY else having nothing and how wonderful it would be! Keke
Married to a communist spy wife too that broke up the Beatles
We knew it was BS=communism in 1971. A song about giving up Your way of life to please the lazy=communism. Written by a a man with millions..
Yeah the song is bullshit. The Beatles were a psyop.
I hated this song even back then. John was already an elite back then living his life of luxury telling everyone else how they had to be. Delusional.
In fact they all grew up rich too
The Beatles were a major satanic drug infested Psyop. Sargeant Pepper is Aleister Crowley.
First half i agree completely second half i have questions. Care to expand?
Aleister Crowley died 20 years before the album was released and was featured on the album cover. The song says "It was 20 years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play".
Lennon gave a 1980 interview with Playboy’s David Sheff. In the interview, Lennon seemingly repeats Crowley’s most famous teaching, “Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law,” when he said, “The whole Beatle idea was to do what you want, right? To take your own responsibility, do what you want and try not to harm other people, right? Do what thou wilt, as long as it doesn’t hurt somebody.”
i wish this was surprising but thanks
The song IGY by Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) is another description of the commie liberal utopia they want to vomit on us.
Check out the steely Dan song “only a fool would say that” it’s a response to the imagine song by Lennon. Worth listening to for the lolz
You will own nothing.
And like it.
You also have to eat bugs.
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Yup it's a song about a global government, 15 minute cities, social credit score utopia.
Coulda come right out of WEF!!!
Read Chaos by Tom O'Neil and discover the fact that the 60s were likely all a psyop and coordinated by the CIA to destroy the youth and stage false flags....pretty intriguing stuff.
In contrast, George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord came out a year prior. I think it’s just musical intellectuals selling songs targeting specific audiences. Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth came out in 1967…. This is all a pivot from OP (sorry), but when you get a chance try listening to A Murder Most Foul by Dylan (hard listen for sure—but very intriguing).
At the end of the song they're no longer singing Hallelujah but Hare Krishna. Harrison said they lured people into singing that with subtlety.
Did not know that….
I always thought this song was very revealing.
https://youtu.be/teD9t-lO_o0?si=DRIvFPCacsqPi_nW
How do you sleep? Same album. Think of all the hell they have unleashed
i think he was slamming on McCartney with that one.
He was.
Commie propaganda, which many young (stupid) people can easily get behind. Let's share!! Until you ask them for some of their pie. Then, it's a "no".
is there a deeper meaning to it? not sure what we would do if we have Nothing?
what would this type of world he's dreaming of even look like?
It sounds pretty similar to what Klaus Schwab expounds, except in wankier words.