Unkind Saint

John Lennon

You know, it's remarkable to me how many people still don't get it that it was meant to be a good thing when John Lennon sang about "imagine there is no religion". I always thought that it and the other things in the song were great ideas--not that anyone had to BELIEVE all of it, but just IMAGINE IT and see how much you and the world would be freed of so much baggage if we'd give up the things that we kill for.! I think Lennon was a sort of Unkind Philosopher Saint and that twit who killed him was--well, just a twit. I wish they'd quit talking about letting him go home to his Mommy and Daddy, though. That degree of kindness is beyond me. If the ghost of John Lennon came back and told us to release him, I'd still feel the same. I could go on at greater length about this, but I'd just become obnoxious

IMAGINE

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

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

You may say that 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 may say that 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