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| John Lennon's Song Imagine Should Be Performed As It Was Written |
| The song contains the lines "Imagine there's no countries ... And no religions too." Apparently, when the song is performed live in America, the "no religions too" line is often left out, and sometimes, grotesquely, changed to "and one religion too", completely twisting the original meaning of the words in a way that would have made Lennon squirm. Have some respect for the artist. If you don't like the song as he wrote it, don't perform it. But at least have the decency not to take it and twist it to suit your own sick belief system. |
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No I disagree Ray Charles has a great cover to mention but just one. |
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I love the way lennon made this song. It is amazing. But i also feel only he can perform it that
way, and as respect to him it SHOULD be performed differently, cause nobody will ever be able to
compare to him! |
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I don't see any problem with people changing around the lyrics of songs. It happens all the time and
not just with John Lennon's Imagine. For example, last December public schools in Ottawa, Canada,
performed a new, secular version of "Silver Bell." The word "Christmas" was replaced with "festive"
throughout the song, which meant that the children sang about how "soon it will be festive day."
Although I think that this is foolish, I didn't get upset over it, like most parents and much of the
media did.
We don't owe John Lennon anything and we are free to do what we please with his song. It's a very
good song, indeed, even if his lyrics are the lame and naive musings of an aging, drugged up hippie,
who in his stupor felt that "Imagine" was a sugar-coated version of the Communist Manifesto. If a
group of Southern Baptists wants to change the song outright and turn it into a rousing evangelical
hymn, then that is entirely their choice and they need not be scolded for apparently disrespecting a
dead artist. |
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15 Apr 2008 05:51
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