A piano accompanying the voice with a mixture of simplicity, simplicity and delicate passion. The voice proposes imagine there's no heaven, hell below us is that everyone lives, no countries, no reason to kill or die for a religion; He lived without possessions, without greed or hunger. A brotherhood. And concludes: "You may say I'm a dreamer / but I'm not the only one / I hope some day you'll join us / and the world will live as one.".
A song performed many times, versioned, sung by men, for women, for groups. Interestingly, and from the attacks in Paris, it has become a veritable anthem of peace.
Wednesday night on December 9, was Madonna who spontaneously came to the Place de la Republique in Paris, and only accompanied by a guitarist, he filled the room with his voice. Just claiming the ability to live together, without hatred or rancor, no attacks, no religious reasons for killing others.
A purpose of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the death of its author, John Lennon, that took place on December 8, 1980 in New York, it is worth remembering their music and especially his lyrics, to reconcile humanity. To conciliate and reconcile. New times demand it, and the music gives us an answer.