Report on the song "Imagine by John lennon"

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Imagine by John Lennon

John Lennon’s imagine is a great hit single that has touched our hearts so many times and will always do.

The song is very spiritual and unrealistic. The reason why it’s unrealistic is because he is telling us to imagine these things that don’t exist because he is dreaming of a better tomorrow, a tomorrow that does not exist. In the book “Lennon in America”, by Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon himself commented that Imagine was an "anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic, but because it's sugar-coated, it's accepted."

“Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try” “no hell below us, above us only sky.” Those are the first two lines of the song. If there’s no heaven then there’s nothing better than what we have on Earth and if there’s no hell then there’s nothing worse than what we could find on Earth and if above us there’s just a clear blue sky then the sky is our limit and that any experiences we will have during our life or after it will be on Earth. It’s like he’s telling us to imagine that God doesn’t exist and if God didn’t exist then people won’t be judged and that all they did was live without ever feeling guilty or worrying about what would happen to them after they pass away. Just like he says in the next line, people will live for today like there’s no tomorrow.

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“Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.” In this verse Sir Lennon is saying that if there are no countries then we would all be living together, no border lines, no continents, no oceans nothing that would separate the human race. We would all be living together in peace and nobody would want to take someone else’s land or property therefore there will be no battles nor wars. If we were all of the same religion there won’t be difference in opinion and there won’t be any criticism ...

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