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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   Jun 1st 2012 !⃝

   imagine there's no heaven, then it doesnt matter if I divorced and abandoned my wife and kid for some woman who cant sing?
   let's go get some heroin!
   protect our brothers like pol pot who are satelittes to the beast
   give up american! give up! communism equals no religion or you die!
   the whole world will serve the bear or die!
   all that you own will be distributed to the workers!
   there is no point in working!
   possesions are an illusion!
   where can I find more heroin?
   yoko ono is a great singer, mark david chapman please shoot me!!! shoot me!!!
2. anonymous

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   Mar 17th 2012 !⃝

   See why some guys can't understand what's Lennon trying to say why some people trying to convert this to communism or other bull shits.
   Simply he's only imagine world without war and selfishness.and world with full of love, sharing and unity.
   All the great wars in the world happened because of lands, religions, races,desire to bieng wealthy and resources. That's why lennon is imagine how if there is no countries and religions too. That's why he's imagine people only living for today.
   What about heaven and hell he's talking about. Some people are don't do any thing for the world or for others they are only going church and praying instead. They think they would go to heaven. But if u share all the happiness and love with each others u can create all the heaven on the earth.
   But after all he knows those are mostly impossible to do. But he imagine it. But there are so many people dreaming about world like that. He's not asking to change the world like that he just asking us to imagine the world in that way and imagine how much it would be beautiful, peacefull and harmony
3. anonymous

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   Mar 14th 2012 !⃝

   I don't want to imagine there's no heaven because heaven is my only hope in this life so yes I am offended as a Christian. Although this song is obviously speaking out for peace, there is no true peace without heaven and never will be. I think it is totally disrespectful to our military and our country when we sing this song at prayer gatherings or funeral. HEAVEN IS MY HOME! This is all just temporary. That is how I feel! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
   Kim Meyer
4. anonymous

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   Mar 2nd 2012 !⃝

   About the world being peaceful and all people getting treated the same, No wars, poverty, crimes.
5. anonymous

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   Feb 28th 2012 !⃝

   I am Christian and I do not get offended by this song. John Lennon himself had religon. He just singing about forgetting it for a moment and realizing how wonderful Earth this, and to take in all the beauty and peace. If you think about it, the world would be a better place if everybody wasn't fighting over religon. I get persecuted because people think that being a mormon is some sort of cult, but if you think about it most people that persecute have not acual looked into that religon and they know little no nothing about it that wasn't heard by someone who makes up all this crap about it. If you want to say bad things about a religonget your information from someone that knows about it, not something that thinks they know everything about it, don't listen to the haters that have nothing good to say about it. Make your opinion from listening to people that have good and bad things to say about it. If one person did that they world would be a better place. Just imagine how good this world would be if everybody did it.
6. anonymous

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   Jan 29th 2012 !⃝

   First off he's not an atheist so it's not an 'atheist anthem'.
7. anonymous

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   Jan 14th 2012 !⃝

   This whole song describes the true qualities of communism. you may think of corruption when you hear the word "communism" but this song is about what REAL communism is truely all about.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 16th 2011 !⃝

   I think the song is asking you to imagine a world without prejudice, a world made of peace and only peace, with no goverment, possesisions, or hate
9. anonymous

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   Sep 15th 2011 !⃝

   This song will one day become reality. That is all there is to it.
10. anonymous

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    Sep 7th 2011 !⃝

    It's about marxism. The song is, word by word, a description of a marxist utopia, with no possessions or religion, without hunger and countries. By saying there are no countries he is implying that one unique and central government with unlimited power will rule us all (1984 much) under wich we're all equal, "a brotherhood of man". "Nothing to kill or die for" refers to the end of all different ideas, being that everyone agrees in marxism. John Lennon was part of a musical group with unlimited fame and money. He never suffered or even saw suffering, turning him into a filthy liberal that believes in some fairytale bullshit.
11. anonymous

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    Aug 20th 2011 !⃝

    It's simple really. Imagine, living as one. No fights, no war. A anonymous said on the 24th June 2007, Religous beliefs are not the cause of war. But they can be. Religion is the cause of a lot of things, not all good, but I agree with the point on money. Imagine if there was no money, no possesions, no rich, no poor. What a wonderful world that would be. But it would never happen, greed is part of what makes us human. To me the world human means a faulted being, so what Lennon is suggesting is an alien breed. If only...
12. anonymous

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    Jul 20th 2011 !⃝

    John Lennon believed in communist theories. All of the lyrics point towards communism

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
13. whatshouldiput

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    Jun 6th 2011 !⃝

    Here are my thoughts on the song:
    
    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
    
    This is talking about people being too concerned about outer things, and not focusing on there own lives or anyone around them.
    
    Imagine there's no country
    It isn't hard to do
    Nothing to kill or die for
    No religion too
    Imagine all the people
    Living life in peace
    
    This is a very important lesson in today's world. America's excuse for war is "We're doing it for God." Another issue is that we seperate everyone beacause of where they live and what religion they are. If we just put those things aside, there wouldn't be war.
14. anonymous

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    Jun 6th 2011 !⃝

    This song is a manifesto. You see, the sad reality of material existence, is that it is like taking billions of photographs of a tree and thinking each photograph is of a different tree that is better. There is only a very small section of humanity that understands this very obvious point. That WE are divine and WE come from ONE source with the ability to display polarity and the balance (being wisdom) The rest are rapidly expanding into an infinity and it's unending obscurity... unaware infinity means...infinity. We love them despite their inability to comprehend themselves and one day we will all realize we are just ONE - but unable to perceive this. That day we will need no religion or law or division or structure or identity, to know we already exist in order, one, humane love - for all material existence. To foster it's existence, assist it's unity, and join us at the source. Lennon understood this, as did Einstein, and many other gifted with the capacity to stay balanced in LOVE.
    May you find enlightenment. Thank you for Reading. Dokotela.
15. anonymous

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    Apr 23rd 2011 !⃝

    The song sounds so good, but its all about imagining. what about the reality where even your very own sister or brother is different from what you are? and worst you cant even convince. Or when you cannot even adjust yourself with her difference. How many years will it take for this wisher of imagine to keep explaining his idea or in word or in letter for all the people in the world to be at one in his perception of a single world of paradise where people do not even talk or debate in all the matters of life. just smiling at one another, working together. And all waiting for the hour of death. it will require warring with someone who believes in his religion. The price to pay is bloodshed to make all people on earth as a flat one brain.

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