John Lennon: Imagine Meaning

Song Released: 1971

Imagine Lyrics

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...

1. anonymous

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   Aug 19th 2017 !⃝

   I love some of his ideas but some of his ideas are against God.
2. anonymous

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   Feb 24th 2015 !⃝

   Imagine by John Lennon means that there is so much that we want/expect that usually won’t happen in reality, I think that John Lennon wanted everyone to just “imagine” what the world would be like if there was peace.
3. anonymous

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   Jul 5th 2014 !⃝

   I think "imagine no possessions" isn't as simple as not being materialistic. I think the fundamental point in this entire song is that there are no boundaries between us. "Possessions" belong to someone. If they are my possessions, they are not yours, and therefore there is a boundary between us. We must not possess anything if we are all to be one. We may have material things in our lives, but we must not consider that any of us individually possesses anything.
4. anonymous

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   May 23rd 2014 !⃝

   John was just trying to put into words his ideas for a type of "utopia" on earth. Some of you are reading too much into his lyrics. (i.e one world order, communism). I believe that if we as a species can avoid killing ourselves to the point of extinction, we in fact will evolve into some kind of spiritual beings. And possessions, power, money and greed will not exist or matter. Many people just can't "imagine" this because it is still very far off in the future. And it's still not a given. Our species may not be able to survive long enough to make the transition. But in order for it to happen, you have to start somewhere. You have to Imagine.
5. anonymous

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   Feb 23rd 2014 !⃝

   the fact that he says "Imagine there's no heaven" tells you he believes the is a heaven. If I said "Imagine there's no Brooklyn bridge" I'm in fact confirming that there is a "Brooklyn bridge" and I'm just imaging that there is none. you can't imagine something isn't there if it isn't there.
6. kooljohn176

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   Oct 8th 2013 !⃝

   As the years go by and the days are getting closer towards the end of December memories of john lennon's imagine comes to mind with Christmas in the bittersweet feeling of life and death.
   
   The parallel course of john lennon and the fictional character in the book lathe of heaven that came out in 1971 and then the release of the movie on January 9 1980 is been haunting me ever since. the protagonist in the movie was a dreamer George orr, played by bruce Davidson who believes so much for humanity on earth that he was asked to imagine ''perfect peace on earth'' for him to dream about, because he had a special gift to dream the future.
   
   The problem was that the well meaning psychiatrist discovers his powers and wanted to use his futuristic dreams for a greater good, but almost destroyed the world in the reality their were living in. i'am not sure what john went through in primal therapy sessions, reading the book primal scream is a good read for that time and even now on neurosis, but to scream your guts out in therapy sessions can be draining for the soul that can bring on nightmares.
   
   This is when a ''good oneirologist'' was needed to work with dream meaning with john. throughout the years hearing imagine being played on the radio usually gave me a good feeling,while at the same time felt the hope and faith slowly disappearing, while a new one was taking place. I felt john wanted to bring heaven down to earth for us, meaning well, but where does jesus Christ stand now, to some of us Christians we imagined he was robed. ego, pride is a problem here, while feeling for the young especially in need for hearing that there is a heavenly father up there. john as a dreamer was like Prometheus who stole fire from zeus so mankind to have on earth in the future for mankind. some people called neitzche who wanted so much a better world for the people to live in, like john. but misunderstood by their possessed will to power, it was not easy for them to live up to jesus Christ, even john said many times in singing ''Christ is not easy they are going to crucify me''.
   
   John was not an atheist and I feel would have come around in search of jesus again if he was not killed. to me John was a sheep in wolf's clothing, like they called neitzche in his philosophy. who know's the way things are developing today maybe john's dream could come true in having peace on earth in revelation. john in march of 1980 I had tears for you when I had a revelation between the movie lathe of heaven and your song of heaven. on that time stood still for me in my fragile mind thinking I was in the year 2001 and this world was coming to an end, thank god it did not end, only time did stand still in new York for all of us on that day. a quote from book that might be wrong, but ''to let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven'' ,so let us not press any any buttons because I still wanna see the rainbows rising after a rainy sun shower on this earth, not the world after april. looking forward to see the daffodils this spring and thinking of you john lennon for dreaming for us. imagine, there's,'' know heaven''
7. williamskisha

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   Jun 18th 2013 !⃝

   This song is all about a one world communistic government! NO possession, countries, Heaven or Hell.
8. anonymous

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   Mar 29th 2013 !⃝

   This song is obvioulsy about Communism. I'm not saying that John Lennon was a communist, but thats how it sounds to me.
   
   
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9. anonymous

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   Dec 19th 2012 !⃝

   In John 13:34,35 Jesus stated that people would know you my disciples because you will have love amongst yourselves. It sounds like Lennon really understood this scripture when he speaks of no war! How can anyone any so called Christian show love towards their brother if they are wiling to take up arms against one another in war??? Epheasians 4:5 speaks of one faith one baptism. Again Lennon understood their should be no religion.
10. anonymous

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    Dec 19th 2012 !⃝

    Psalms 37:29 actually tells us that the meek will inherit the "earth" and live forever upon it. It says nothing about heaven. Isaiah 45:18 says God did not create the earth simply for nothing. Isaiah 65:21-25 speaks of this world Lennon was speaking about.
11. anonymous

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    Dec 10th 2012 !⃝

    "Imagine" is a song about the marxist utopia Marx and Engels are speaking about in the Communist Manifesto. The marxist utopia has no nations, government, religion, war, posessions, etc., just like what he's singing about.
    
    The thought of this song being atheist isn't completely right, nor completely wrong. While common belief suggests that communists are against all forms of religion, marxism simply states that organised religion is an abomination, not faith itself. Lennon is a good example of this.
12. anonymous

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    Dec 10th 2012 !⃝

    "Imagine" is a song about the marxist utopia Marx and Engels are speaking about in the Communist Manifesto. The marxist utopia has no nations, government, religion, war, posessions, etc., just like what he's singing about.
    
    The thought of this song being atheist isn't completely right, nor completely wrong. While common belief suggests that communists are against all forms of religion, marxism simply states that organised religion is an abomination, not faith itself. Lennon is a good example of this.
13. anonymous

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    Nov 13th 2012 !⃝

    I'm doing a personal response on this song, all the comments were really helpful.
    Thanks
    Anonymous
14. anonymous

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    Oct 3rd 2012 !⃝

    Your all wrong,he wrote this song for God ,displaying a dream that would never come true.
    May God bless John Lennon
15. anonymous

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    Aug 21st 2012 !⃝

    what john is imagining is the NEW WORLD ORDER and the coming of the anti-christ. EG, forget about Christ, one government to rule the world, no possesions.
    I would suggest that people look into what the new world order's agenda is and then do yourself a favor and read the book of revelation especially the part about the four horsemen and see the similarities.

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