Imagine Lyrics

Great song, got them all in one try. John Lennon is an icon.

Never knew country was pluralized until now. I thought he said "Imagine there's no Country."

Same

Imagine the world without the U.S., man wouldn't that be nice!!!

Hello friends, here we eat popcorn and watch the soon to be fight

You left out a line, right before "Sharing all the ______".

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Imagine John Lennon sharing all the 220 million pounds he died with.

Yoko couldn't imagine sharing any with John's son.

I always though it was "nothing to live or die for", but I guess it doesn't quite make sense in the context of the song.

I thought it was die or kill for.

Never heard of this song.. I guessed 'love' and got 1/21 ^o^

How have you not heard this song ever? It’s consistently voted one of the best songs of all time!

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35 years ago today that great man died

He made great music, but he was far from a great man

I admire Lennon and his stance for peace, and this is a really beautiful song, but I've never shared the message of the lyrics.

The utopia he wishes for isn't one I'd like to live in. A world without "nothing to die for" is a world that's not worth living. Countries and religions have been the cause of many evil things, but also the cause of good and great things, and it gives many people purpose and happiness.

World peace is the goal, but I don't think it should be achieved by the means of homogenizing and sedating mankind.

Agree.

Same.

Then they would never have died nor had children. That wouldn't have worked out too well for the rest of us.

A world [with] nothing to die for sounds good to me. What's so appealing about needing something so unattractive in life that you want to die to avoid its continuance?

How many times have you actually died for anything?

Then you both missed the point of the lyrics.

His idea of utopia isn't one in which nothing is worth killing or dying for, it's one in which nobody has to kill or die for what makes them happy. When he says to imagine there aren't any countries, he's not attacking the cultures that make up those countries, he's attacking the idea that those cultures have to be walled in and controlled by warring governments. This isn't supposed to be a realistic solution to the issues of the world, it's an entirely aspirational questioning of the divisions we take for granted

I acknowledge that the sentiment of the song is a good one, but its lyrics wish for the suppression of countries, religions, and possessions. Not patriotic bigotry, religious fanaticism or abusive greed.

Yes, Cheviot, he mocked politicians frequently.

Just came back from Liverpool, England. Visited the statues and the museums of the Beatles.

Such lovely exhibitions, aren't they?

you bunch of communists !

By the way, this is actually not a Beatles song

...no one said it was.

Whether you like him or not, he's probably the most influential musician of the entire twentieth century. There are others that are often cited as innovators in their time (Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald), but Lennon is the one whose influence is still most directly at work in music today and in every year since the Beatles landed. The only other ones I can think of who have been consistently influential since their arrival are Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain, Lennon's bandmate Paul McCartney, and Stephen Sondheim. My very unscientific feeling is that Lennon's influence is the most pervasive among that lot.

Without Hank Williams your list is incomplete. He's the most influential musician of the last 100 years. First popular white musician to openly embrace and acknowledge the the blending of cultures in modern music. Without him there is decent chance there is no one after him on your list.

I think that is quite an overstatement, but I actually thought of Hank Williams and intended to include him on my list. Oversight on my part. But with regard to your last comment...Williams deserves recognition for being among the first, but that does not mean everyone who followed owes him a debt. The mixing of different cultures into pop music is an inevitable result. If he invented something wholly new, that's one thing, but to bring together different styles is admirable but not revelatory in the same way. And in any event, by "most influential," I meant the person you can still identify by listening to modern music. You cannot get away from Johnn Lennon chord changes and phrasings, even in new bands. Hank Williams belongs with Buddy Holly and Fats Domino in that his music was great and he was a pioneer...but you don't really hear what they were doing in modern music, or even in music that came out 30 years ago.

i thought i had to imagine lyrics '-'

I reckon most people understood that it's easy to "imagine" no possessions if you're sat comfortably in your plush New York penthouse. Great tune though and of course I got 100% by singing it in my head.

That's probably why the song is called "Imagine."

Yup.

I do not want to imagine this kind of world.

I always thought the line was "sharing all the wealth," and nor "sharing all the world." The things you learn...