jamesg1213
'They're starving out in China
So finish what you got''
How exactly was that going to help?
What? Another great philosphical line, he' saying hey be grateful you have something to eat because in china they were starving the whole Mao thing.
Another thing you are quoting Nobody Told Me, Lennon's last top ten hit 1984, a song that was not finished and meant for Ringo. It was the bare bones of the track layed down in the weeks before he died
Another thing about that track is you have you have quoted a small phrase it's the whole song that is philsophical, verse 1:
Everybody's talking and no one says a word
Everybody's making love and no one really cares
There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs
Always something happening and nothing going on
There's always something cooking and nothing in the pot
They're starving back in China so finish what you got
Want to go Beatle facts with Beatle facts with me you will alway's loose.
I bet you just see goboldy gook but look at the fisrt line
Everybody's talking and no one says a word
How is that not in his simple way philosophical, it is who else in pop/rock was writing under the cover of darkeness stiff like that.
There's Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs
He's talking about Paranoia.
Always something happening and nothing going on
Again he 's made a very astue observation.
So already if we take the lyrics of the first verse and not just the line you quoted, it's simple, yes but very astute philosophy thats designed for the average person that listens to pop, it's sublimanal.
And the line Nobody Told Me There Would be Days Like These
he 's talking about how we are not prepared for the world by our elders: Parent's, family, priests polictions.
You can accuse it of being simple like Imagine but that's the point pop music is suppose to be throw away or digested by people like fast food and here is a man dropping subliminal messages into your fast food.
Why do you think the man is still reveried after 50 years, yes folks, it's 50 years since Love Me Do, go for it attack that as what it was, a cheesburger.
Why do you think the catholic church is still afraid of this man, they absovle him of the sin of boastfulness 40 years after the event: "We're popular than Jesus, I don't know which will go first rock and roll or christanity" Well folks, lets add prophet to Lennons reusume, Rock and Roll is still here but in every other western country including the United States Christanity is in decline. Proof well who here gives a flying **** about Good Friday, it's a holiday for every one, yes I know they're a few christians left and I'm not here to knock them.
But in America christanity has retreated to the poorer middle states, with high levels of black poverty. And the chruches wickedness (sorry, I know some of you and are my friends are big on christanity, I am spiritualist and believe in the universe as a divine structure, i am just as religious as these friends just not in the organised way) prey upon this.
Every where in the western white world christanity is dead, they are selling their once great asset horde, buildings and land holdings just to keep the dog's from the door.
So what do they do, they move to Africa, they are huge in the poorer states of latin america because they arn't as educated, they are preying upon the poor.
But Lennon was a prophet, he predicted it the end of christanity as a force, now he was talking about England at the time and he has say's so in so many statements but his statement has become true beyond England. Hence the Catholic church are still frightend of him to this day.
Go for it knock him on his simplicity "All You Need Is Love" I mean is'nt that a christian message and if you had a good ear the song Nobody Told Me is actually Instant Karma re-written but don't ever knock the great man. If we had John Lennon today, the world would be a better place because he tried to speak the truth through experience.
"I've seen the one eyed witch doctor I've got nothing to hide"
"Yes love is the answer and you know that for sure"
Was he a nice man, probably he had bad moments like the rest but he is still a great philospher, prophet and poat, a polymath.
I will always goo head to head with anyone on Lennon and Beatle facts, If I could do The Beatles Masters degree at The University of Liverpool I would.
Sorry James but we need Lennon more than ever, we are a rudderless ship this world of ours, he was willing to jump into the crows nest whilst the storm raged around to help us find land, who's left???
Neb reporting from the Nebula Neb
post edited by BenMMusTech - 2012/04/06 04:34:51