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. MKadaj

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   Jun 7th 2006 !⃝

   Personally, I do not like this song. That said:
   It's simply about John Lennon's idea of a perfect society. He fails to realise, however, that his society falls into the category of "Utopian-Commie Society". ("Commie" of course reffering to "communist")

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
2. anonymous

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   Feb 23rd 2006 !⃝

   I think that John was strong about the world that we live in and thought what a better place it could be. I love the song because it tells what he thinks the world should be like.
3. anonymous

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   Feb 15th 2006 !⃝

   I feel that this song is about socialist ideology and how he beleaves in a perfect society socialist would be the best way to go. But since we arnt in a perfect society, we should live it up because he sure did.
4. anonymous

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   Jan 4th 2006 !⃝

   One of the greatest songs ever written apart from Stariway To Heaven. A little biography on Lennon when this song was written many people such as Christians got offended with ths first line "Imagine there was no heaven". They took that in offence assuming Lennon was a believer of god. But Lennon than corrected himself to the media sayin, "wait a second, Im just telling you for a minute just imagine if there wasnt I'm not saying that there is but just imagine (thats why the song is called imagine). Now not only imagine no heaven but no hell. These are all things that we believe in and religion as we knows creates wars. Just imagine if no one in the world belived that, there would probably be no wars, hate but more happinness. If we were all equal, its hard to imagine that because its impossible. But my song is just basically makes you reflect on these things, the impossible". Im a huge Lennon fan and know many things about his life. Also I can tell you Yoko Ono helped him write this song but she was never creditted on her help.
   
   So this is what Lennon is saying, imagine if we were all equal and we didn't have different beliefs, with different beliefs we would have no religion, with no religion there would probably be no wars. "Its weasy if you try" this means a lot of people back then were disturbed and would not but he's saying just try, we all hate but why can't we love, why can't we imagine the good things in life? Why do we always have to experience hate and war?
   
   This song is so great and powerful, I think bush should read it at least a million times.
5. anonymous

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   Dec 28th 2005 !⃝

   Yeah I really like this song, but it is also the birth of why conservatives call liberals "communists." I quote "imagine no possesions... a brother hood of man..."
   read Marx people. Lennon kept a copy of his book where ever he went.
   -Frizzle Fry
6. linkinpark4eva

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   Oct 19th 2005 !⃝

   I like Porcelina's thoughts that it's the atheist's anthem. I agree with that (I am an atheist myself). It implies no religion, war or any other divisions among men. As well as that, it is a relaxing song anyway. I like this song when I need to chill. It stands out a bit from my metal collection, though!
7. anonymous

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   Oct 9th 2005 !⃝

   I think it's a speculation or a dream of what could be or what's running through his mind. He could be asking the listener to think about what war, death, & the world is all about. I don't wanna sound mean er anything but, he was probably thinking really hard & speculating the universe or he was high when he wrote the song.
8. mojofilterloco

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   Aug 16th 2005 !⃝

   Agreed with silverbeatle.
   
   a quote though...
   
   "A dream you dream alone is a dream. A dream we dream together is reality"
   
   or something.
9. silverbeatle

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   Aug 11th 2005 !⃝

   Imagine was originally inspired by a instructional poem in Yoko's book Grapefruit.
   
   He was saying imagine what life would be like if it was like this. If we ALL imagine it, it could be real.
10. randyh

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    Aug 4th 2005 !⃝

    Quite simply, heaven (or hell) is something we create on this planet. It's a song about what divides us and what should be uniting us to make heaven on Earth. One of my favorite songs.
11. porcelina

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    Jun 18th 2005 !⃝

    Often known as the "atheists' anthem" it is a song about a beautiful world that can only be known in the dreams of freethinkers and the like. I will be listening to it live at Live 8 Hyde Park! The song itself, however, is a very beautiful one
12. jim morrison

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    Jun 18th 2005 !⃝

    Imagine is about if there was no evil not war no religion if there was no money that kinda thing. it's real hippie.

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