Deep Tracks: Imagine | Jake Haber

Tune in to a message on John Lennon's iconic peace anthem "Imagine", and how it explores powerful themes about using our creative capacity to envision a better world. 

 

Lyrics: 

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky

 

Imagine all the people
Livin' 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 people
Livin' life in peace

 

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

 

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man

 

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

 

Quotes:

 

Woody Guthrie: 

 

“It’s a folk singer’s job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people.”

 

John Lennon: 

“..the concept of positive prayer ... If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion—not without religion but without this my God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing—then it can be true” 

 

Crowfoot (Chief of the Blackfeet):

"We cannot sell the lives of men and animals; therefore we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us"

 

Massasoit (Leader of the Wampanoag):

“What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?”

 

Crazy Horse:

“One does not sell the land people walk on.”

 

Chief Seattle:

“We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?”