Now Im not the kind of person who likes to trespass but sometimes you just find yourself over the line. youtu.be/e5aSga7LVmI imaginepeace/archives/10573 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutopia nutopia.cc/ Several poems from Yoko Onos 1964 book Grapefruit inspired Lennon to write the lyrics for Imagine[1]—in particular, one which Capitol Records reproduced on the back cover of the original Imagine LP titled Cloud Piece, reads: Imagine the clouds dripping, dig a hole in your garden to put them in.[2] Lennon later said the composition should be credited as a Lennon/Ono song. A lot of it—the lyric and the concept—came from Yoko, but in those days I was a bit more selfish, a bit more macho, and I sort of omitted her contribution, but it was right out of Grapefruit.[3] When asked about the songs meaning during a December 1980 interview with David Sheff for Playboy magazine, Lennon told Sheff that Dick Gregory had given Ono and him a Christian prayer book, which helped inspire in Lennon what he described as: The concept of positive prayer ... If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion—not without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing—then it can be true ... the World Church called me once and asked, Can we use the lyrics to Imagine and just change it to Imagine one religion? That showed [me] they didnt understand it at all. It would defeat the whole purpose of the song, the whole idea. With the combined influence of Cloud Piece and the prayer book given to him by Gregory, Lennon wrote what author John Blaney described as a humanistic paean for the people.[3] Blaney wrote, Lennon contends that global harmony is within our reach, but only if we reject the mechanisms of social control that restrict human potential. In the opinion of Blaney, with Imagine, Lennon attempted to raise peoples awareness of their interaction with the institutions that affect their lives. Rolling Stone s David Fricke commented: [Lennon] calls for a unity and equality built upon the complete elimination of modern social order: geopolitical borders, organised religion, [and] economic class. Lennon stated: Imagine, which says: Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics, is virtually the Communist manifesto, even though Im not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement. He told NME: There is no real Communist state in the world; you must realize that. The Socialism I speak about ... [is] not the way some daft Russian might do it, or the Chinese might do it. That might suit them. Us, we should have a nice ... British Socialism. Ono described the lyrical statement of Imagine as just what John believed: that we are all one country, one world, one people. Rolling Stone described its lyrics as 22 lines of graceful, plain-spoken faith in the power of a world, united in purpose, to repair and change itself.
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