I think John was cutting ties to everything he'd ever been; his spiritual journeys, his idols Elvis and Dylan, his alter egos such as the Walrus and, finally, his ultimate identity, The Beatles. It was just himself and Yoko now.
@qthelost
5 жыл бұрын
Very well put. John was a fearless songwriter. A very powerful song. Great art is very thought provoking.
@blackbird5787
5 жыл бұрын
Well, here's another clue for you The walrus was Paul.
@Silas.Marner
Жыл бұрын
@@blackbird5787 cookookachoo
@allanfarran364
9 ай бұрын
@@blackbird5787the walrus is Lennon
@boleskineblackline4951
5 жыл бұрын
I think John Lennon just wanted To explain that he didn't believe in human concepts like religion, politics, idols.... I think John Lennon was an incredible realistic man , aware of the absurdity and the corruption of the world. And that's why he just wanted To make us understand that the most important thing in the world is love. Nothing else. I also think that he would be incredibly disappointed, disillusioned and terrified by actual society.
@osamabinladen824
4 жыл бұрын
Reading your comment simply made me cry.
@Beatlefish
5 жыл бұрын
Zimmerman is Bob Dylan .....his real name
@hungfao
5 жыл бұрын
This song is very personal and makes more sense with a knowledge of his background and the context of this song. This wasn't intended to be a hit record but more of a letter to fans. Yoko is John's wife. He got a tremendous amount of racist backlash at the time from Beatles' fans, the media, and even the Beatles' internal components because he divorced his proper White English wife and took up with someone from Japan. This was also happening against the backdrop of the Beatles breaking up which was a major event all on its own and Yoko was tagged as the main reason the group broke up. The Beatles were thoroughly entrenched in the hearts and the minds of the world in the 60s. They were essential. While with the Beatles, John took heavy criticism for a comment he made, 'The Beatles are more popular than Jesus...' No one cared that he was talking about the state of the youth in Britain who, in fact, would rather obsess about the Beatles than attend church. The comment had also been corrupted by most people to 'The Beatles are bigger than Christ...' -- which, of course is not what he said. So, it was taken out of context and distorted from the original intention. The Bible Belt in this country latched onto it and anti-Beatle protests were launched and death threats were forth coming (even from the KKK). John was forced to publicly apologize for something he didn't say about 800 times. He felt angry and humiliated. Additionally, when you take into account his life - his parents didn't want him, his best friend (Stu Sutcliffe) died young, his mom gets killed by a drunk cop just after he finally renews a relationship with her, the death of manager Brian Epstein (a surrogate father figure), and his constant search for faith or 'the answer' but always being disappointed by the reality, etc., the song reflects his ultimatum - I've had it, folks, I don't believe in anything except me now. The dream is over. The Beatles are over. Move on. Of course, nobody wanted to. I noticed you were perplexed when he sang, 'I was the walrus..' John had written an incredible song while with the Beatles called 'I Am The Walrus'. It is considered one of if not the best 60s psychedelic track of all time. If you haven't heard it, give yourself a treat and check it out. Fan speculation on the lyrics continue even today as well as who in the group was really the walrus. Yeah, it sounds loony now, but those were some surreal times. The album this track is from, 'Plastic Ono Band' is revered by critics (myself included) as the the best post-Beatles album of all. It's arguable. This album was also disliked as well. It shocked people who expected the Beatles to sound like the Beatles. Decidedly, this album does not. It was sparse, raw and intimidating with bare bones instrumentation. Yet, no two tracks sound alike. Mistakes were mostly left in. Even John's voice was different from his Beatles days. It polarized and literally scared people. The track 'Mother' was released as a single and people were relatively confused by it. John sings about the loss of his parents, tells them goodbye, and then screams for them to come back. It's somewhat horrifying. He does all of this with vocals that seem to definitely demonstrate that he was the most gifted vocalist of the Beatles. Paul could never sing this with the gut wrenching emotion John put into it. Anyway, it's an astounding album and a true artistic statement that only John could pull off. But don't come here for pop songs, though the track 'Love' is every bit as beautiful as anything from the Beatles days. Ok, they've come to take me to my therapy now so I must go.
@connieleighton4375
5 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that you took the time to share this info I think it helps to understand the music...I mean I'm old but I didn't know some of this ,hope Ty appreciates how helpful his viewers are lol...♡
@Modern-Renaissance-Man
5 жыл бұрын
WOW! thx for the info
@southernwanderer7912
5 жыл бұрын
hungfao, that was an excellent write up and all true I also thought it very sad about his parents. His father walked out on them. He's mother couldn't cope. John grew up with his mother's sister, Aunt Mimi. His mother later hit by a bus and died, as you said, when he was getting to know her again. John's mother is the one that taught John to play banjo, which effectively launched his career. He's know for playing banjo techniques on his guitar. Believe it or not, John's father actually showed up after John became famous wanting to be in his life again. John told him to shove off. By the way, during the making of this album, John was involved in a psychological technique called Primal Scream, screaming to get over hurt. That's why there's a lot of screaming in the songs on this album, especially on the song "Mother." But it's an absolutely wonderful album.
@Modern-Renaissance-Man
5 жыл бұрын
@@southernwanderer7912 screaming is a technique I use for a lot of kids, teenagers, and adults to let them get a lot of stress Envy Strife out of their system. Some of them do it to the point to where they vomit. But in the days afterwards all of them report to me that they feel so much better. I know it works because I used it myself
@southernwanderer7912
5 жыл бұрын
@@Modern-Renaissance-Man I actually think Primal Scream is a good psychological technique. It seemed to help John Lennon get over his hang ups from his past. He seemed to become less of a "bad boy" and eventually became a good husband and father following this technique. Though he and his second wife, Yoko, had problems later, they did work out their differences and got back together. And they were still together when he was killed in 1980.
@lethalweapon4052
5 жыл бұрын
John was the more controversial of the Beatles. If youve never followed him this ing will not make sense.
@aprilsutterfield3635
5 жыл бұрын
John Lennon was ahead of his time musically speaking. He wrote some of the most beautiful songs. He saw society for what it is, self serving and hypocritical. In a documentary he spoke to a young man who camped out in his driveway. The man idolized The Beatles and John told him that Beatles were nothing. A group who sang but no magical thing to worship. John saw the war and death in his time and spoke out about the war machine making $ off young mens lives. He was a well spoken and advanced thinker. Please react to Imagine and it will show you more of his talent.
@WhoCares-dl8zr
5 жыл бұрын
@Mike Forti Keyword "was" an asshole, he had a very troubled life and I would love to see what kind of person you would be if you were born under the same conditions as he was, hate him if you want but in the last year's of his life he changed and became a very good man, we have to be able to forgive people for their mistakes
@aprilsutterfield3635
5 жыл бұрын
@Mike Forti I think Lennon was a very intelligent man and he got irritated bc people couldn't or wouldn't think on his level. He spoke eloquently about ending war and the business of war being about $ and control. While trying to get that message across all anybody asked about was The Beatles, their breakup and his drug conviction. Was he a good husband to Cynthia or father to Julian? No. He was an aashole! Unfortunately he was in his 20's and a rock star. It wasn't conducive to being either. He did things differently the 2nd time. My two cents.
@aprilsutterfield3635
5 жыл бұрын
@@WhoCares-dl8zr I agree. I'm glad I wasn't judged too harshly for mistakes I made in my 20's. Can you imagine being under that microscope?
@aprilsutterfield3635
5 жыл бұрын
@Mike Forti wow, have a few seats and get back in your own lane. I was just saying his experiences had an effect on his behaviors.
@WhoCares-dl8zr
5 жыл бұрын
@Mike Forti Seems like you're just making excuses to hate the guy also you can't call someone else a jerk after what you just said to April without even knowing her😂
@mary-jessejohnston284
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife. The long-haired child we saw is Lennon's young son. I was a fan, back in the day. When I heard he'd been shot and died, I pulled off the road and cried.
@micvall6479
5 жыл бұрын
The long haired child in that clip is actually Yoko’s daughter Kyoko, the Clip is from 1968.
@DawnSuttonfabfour
3 жыл бұрын
I never got over it. 4 days after my 19th birthday.
@Vikinggirl1679
3 жыл бұрын
Long haired child in video is John's step daughter Kyoko, Yokos daughter from her first marriage. They did have a son Sean together. He also had a son Julian from his first wife Cynthia
@edmondlau511
2 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine what that was like hearing that news, especially if it was during Monday Night Football from Howard Cosell. I think it's one of those things you never forget where you were when you heard.
@MrRoach-yo3mz
5 жыл бұрын
*YOKO IS HIS WIFE, you have to know the Beatles story* ... The last picture is John singing an autograph for his *His Murderer*
@migizi52
5 жыл бұрын
2nd wife
@agemoth
5 жыл бұрын
Mr. Roach signing
@cablebrain9691
5 жыл бұрын
Just keep in mind that the photo of John & his killer has nothing to do with the song, from John's perspective, because he had already died before the video was made. Maybe you were just pointing out an interesting fact. If that's the case, just disregard. :)
@johnLennon255
3 жыл бұрын
On the day that he died
@johnLennon255
3 жыл бұрын
@@cablebrain9691 idk if that needed to be said. Considering John made this song like 5 years before his death
@gyloir
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko is his wife. This was basically a song against idolizing anything, be it religion, famous figures, etc. He was saying the only thing he believes in was his wife and him, that was all he needed. This song came after the Beatles break up and all the fallout of that and anger that followed from them. People were already putting The Beatles on a very high pedestal at that time.
@gyloir
5 жыл бұрын
@kevin Joseph No she didn't, the band was already tired of each other, they stopped touring before that, they had did work on solo stuff, John and Paul were just going down a separate path and he met Yoko at that time, but she wasn't the one who broke the Beatles apart, that was already happening before she got there, it just makes for a juicy newspaper headline and gives people someone specific to "blame" for it. Even Paul himself said she didn't do it.
@musicforthefrogs1936
4 жыл бұрын
It’s funny because I idolize him
@lauracosby7382
5 жыл бұрын
I was pulling into the grocery store parking lot when it came on the radio saying he had been killed. Will never forget that
@chrishowell199
5 жыл бұрын
❤I'm sorry. I suppose I can consider myself very relieved that I was much too young to even know who he was.
@oscarwilde6649
5 жыл бұрын
@@chrishowell199 Ignorance is bliss, huh?
@KnotGypsy
5 жыл бұрын
I was tending bar at a small neighborhood beer & wine bar in San Diego (putting myself though college) when I heard the news of John's death. I was heartbroken. He was my favorite Beatle and I had loved him from age 6 (1965). While I am a woman of faith (not belief), I very much relate to John's journey. Too bad his journey was cut short.
@dman1794
5 жыл бұрын
In later years John would explain what he meant by the opening line, "God is a concept by which we measure our pain", saying that his observation was that the people & countries who have the least and are suffering the most, tend to have the strongest faith in God because they need to try & make some sense of their suffering. The richest people & countries tend to be less devout. This song was a casting off of everything that he had believed in & followed in his past. The Hitler reference was his rejection of evil in the world.
@loveispeace9731
5 жыл бұрын
God and jesus is above all and loves all
@oscarwilde6649
5 жыл бұрын
@@loveispeace9731 Holy shit.
@SpaceCattttt
5 жыл бұрын
John wrote the song almost immediately after the breakup of the Beatles, when he was fed up with almost everything. And as one of the most famous men in the world, he'd had enough of being at the center of attention. Not to mention that he'd realized that all of his former heroes, idols and beliefs could not offer him more comfort in life than his wife Yoko, so he wrote the song as a farewell to his former life and to announce that, from now on, he'd be focusing his energies on life as a married man, away from it all. Incidentally, U2 wrote their own sequel to this song (God - Part II) which they similarly attacked things they no longer believed in, including Albert Goldman, who wrote a highly controversial biography about Lennon, in which he basically portrays him as a real bastard and not at all as what people know and love him for.
@stephenmilburn7622
5 жыл бұрын
Lennon didn't stay focused on being a married man very long with his almost 2 year vacation away from Yoko with their female assistant Mae. For a guy that didn't want to be the center of attention he loved going on tv with Yoko and making a fool of himself bad mouthing everything just to shock. If you listen to him enough his memory isn't great or he would lie to make himself seem above it all. It's too bad that asshole killed him because he seemed to be becoming a nicer person toward the end.
@tallmn1957
5 жыл бұрын
@@stephenmilburn7622 John's 18 months away from Yoko was Yoko's idea. She's the one who instigated and created it. You have to understand his position on doing all the anti-war messages and avant-garde art. No matter where the two of them went they were hounded by the Press. Pretty constantly. So they decided instead of just avoiding them or spouting out those rehearsed lines, that he's had to do for many years, that they would take the opportunity to try doing something positive with it. So they viewed themselves as advertisements for peace which is a great idea. They took a bad and negative situation and turned it into something positive. He once said that he would gladly play the world's clown if it made people think of peace. I think it takes balls to put yourself out like that in front of the entire world. And it was the entire world that was hearing it. He was correct in his thinking as witnessed by the fact that it's still talked about today. That's a hell of an achievement.
@southernwanderer7912
4 жыл бұрын
@@tallmn1957 You're absolutely right about Mae Pang, his fling, being Yoko's idea. She pushed it.
@gooddognigel4947
5 жыл бұрын
I saw the Beatles in 1964 at the Hollywood Bowl. John was always my favorite.
@CornbreadOracle
5 жыл бұрын
John Lennon had the soul of a poet and the mind of a philosopher. When he wrote this song he was in the process of stripping himself bare and rebuilding. He would live about 10 more years. How well I remember the day JohnLennon died. He was and is my mother’s favorite Beatle. Been familiar with his work from earliest childhood. I can still see her face and how devastated she was when the announcement came over the evening news. She’d never met John Lennon but she cried as if she’d lost someone precious to her. 36 years later I would get that same feeling when Prince died. I am the walrus dancing in the purple rain.
@melissakrueger461
5 жыл бұрын
First time hearing this. This song spoke to me. I went through these feelings after my father passed away. I had just met my now husband a few months before. God bless that man. He stuck by my side and saved me.
@delilahmusedcynthiaedmunds3852
5 жыл бұрын
Mind Games is my favorite song of his.
@lecu1967
5 жыл бұрын
Not "Nutopian International Anthem" ?
@oscarwilde6649
5 жыл бұрын
@@ThePhilly501 Indeed.
@aprilsutterfield3635
5 жыл бұрын
I always liked Sitting Watching the Wheels go Round! Very insightful about him being fully immersed in his family life.
@Godisreal123
3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@philcollins3290
5 жыл бұрын
The words say it all don't believe in false idols just believe in yourself and loved ones that's all that matters at the end of the day what a songwriter who wasn't afraid to put pen to paper on any subject RIP the brilliant john Lennon
@jeannediferdinando7508
5 жыл бұрын
Do you remember where you were when you heard the news? It was announced on Dec 8, 1980 on Monday night football by Howard Cosell. I was working in Toys R Us in Staten Island NY. My soul was forever changed. My poet was gone. He was peace, light and love. I often wonder what he would think of our world today. I believe his heart would break at what we have become. Miss you, John. MRM... to understand John Lennon you have to know his story. Then you will understand why he meant so much to my generation. If you take the time to learn about the man, his music is so powerful and beautiful. The words are not literal ... everything has an alternate meaning. When you are in pain, it’s human to feel that way. It’s says it’s ok to be angry and it’s okay to search beyond the bs. Yoko is his wife and the love of his life.
@clemdane
5 жыл бұрын
I was in my bedroom and my Mom came in crying and told me. We cried together for the rest of the evening.
@rjaraneta913
5 жыл бұрын
This song was written & recorded in 1970 when The Beatles had just broken up & Lennon was going through his Primal Therapy sessions and drug withdrawal. He was still dealing with the pain of losing his mother. Lennon later said that this was a spiteful song and he does believe in God.. In one of the last songs he wrote, "Help Me to Help Myself", he sang, "They say the Lord helps those who helps themselves... Lord help me to help myself." It was only recorded on a cassette tape and not in the studio, as John was murdered before he could properly record and finish it.
@gorvnice
5 жыл бұрын
Modern Renaissance, read your comment section. A lot of people who know a lot more about this song and the lyrics and everything else, than you appear to know. You got good fans, dude. Listen to them!
@oscarwilde6649
5 жыл бұрын
Facts
@connieleighton4375
5 жыл бұрын
John believed in peace and love among all man without the things that seperate us God being one of them...♡
@connieleighton4375
5 жыл бұрын
@@danilleblanc7487 thx...so sad but true we as a people let way to many things divide us...♡
@oscarwilde6649
5 жыл бұрын
Exactly. In fact, more people have been killed in the name of "God" than anything or anyone else.
@connieleighton4375
5 жыл бұрын
@@oscarwilde6649 horrible things have been done in the name of God at men's behest our history is long and not so nice at times.... loving one another that's the best gift we can give each other...♡
@merrileekeshiro5420
5 жыл бұрын
Simple: he is singing about what divides us.
@jamesreagle245
3 жыл бұрын
For 50 years I was a staunch catholic - set yourself free as an individual and become a staunch humanitarian
@Lonesomepoet
5 жыл бұрын
'I don't know what Yoko is' lmao
@janegitelman2615
5 жыл бұрын
That's the phenomenal Billy Preston on piano.
@kevincorcoran6493
5 жыл бұрын
He was ranting out of anger. This is from his first solo album and he was expressing all of the anger inside of him. The entire album is dark in tone. .The quote of his about another door after life proves he indeed believed in God, if not any particular religious faith.
@oscarwilde6649
5 жыл бұрын
How old are you?
@seankennedy18
4 жыл бұрын
He believes in his wife and himself. The rest is his Journey. He'd searched the earth for peace and had only found Yoko. The "Walrus" was his Avatar with the Beatles. He mentioned all of those figures because he thought people followed all of those people and things too far. To their detriment. Including his group. People would show up at his home all the time asking him to give them the answer to their lives. He was letting people off that hook, he had to do that himself.
@scottiethegreat74
5 жыл бұрын
A real legit experience of God?? Still waiting to hear of one.........
@maddielee4eva123
5 жыл бұрын
It was on his first album after leaving the beatles. He did alot of LSD towardthe end of the Beatles then got hooked on herion. His wife Cynthia and John's sister said Yoko, his second wife, was a con artist. She was wealthy before John. She intruded on his life. In the years to follow he spent many hours talking to Robert Schuller, a Christian theologist. Yoko had them sacrifice a chicken for sixty grand at one point. He said before he died he found the true God while almost perishing in his sail boat. He died shortly thereafter. I hope he found Jesus cause he was cool.
@NVprods
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko was his wife. John Lennon had a controversial public relationship with God. When the Beatles were at their height, John made a comment that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. The Bible Belt freaked out, burning Beatles albums, etc. John explained that basically what he was trying to say that he couldn't understand that something was wrong somewhere when a musical group was being worshiped by kids at that time more than Jesus Christ. When he wrote this song, he obviously was killing the Beatles myth, as as he said he wasn't believing in anything but himself and his love for his wife. Later on in the 70's John started watching a lot of Evangelical TV, and began writing letters to Preacher Oral Roberts, asking about his salvation, and could he be forgiven by Jesus. He went through a period when he said to people close to him that he was Born Again. This did not go over well with Yoko, who did everything she could to talk him out of it. Just my opinion, but since I believe you cannot lose your salvation, I think John Lennon was saved at the end.
@Jalapablo
5 жыл бұрын
This is John's ode to existentialism, basically part two of Nowhere Man. He was a realist. "I just believe in Yoko and me... that's reality" Its a powerful, sobering statement coming from a man who was an idol for hundreds of millions of people. He's telling his worshippers the dream is over; he's not the Walrus, truth isn't found in a rock band or in some religious belief system outside of yourself. He's saying I'm just John, trying to get through this life with Yoko, day by day. And you should just "carry on" too. Believe in yourself, because in the end you and the ones you love are all that matter.
@JustMe-vk4fn
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko Ono was the woman Mr. Lennon chose to be with. A whole lot of people didn't like it but I don't think that mattered much to Mr. Lennon. The only thing that I didn't like about Ms. Ono was her voice. She couldn't sing a lick.
@qthelost
5 жыл бұрын
@@danilleblanc7487 Yeah, and I recently heard a remixed/remastered version of their song "Happy Xmas War is Over" where it isolates her singing part and her voice actually sounded pretty decent.
@backbeat44
5 жыл бұрын
I understand where you’re coming from but you miss Lennon’s point-it’s not that he doesn’t believe in anything, rather his ongoing theme is you have to own responsibility. You can’t continually put it on someone else. YOU are responsible. Lennon reiterated the same point for politicians - you can’t elect someone & then absolve yourself & blame them, take responsibility- he also said, ‘I’m a deeply religious person’ and in his song ‘Instant Karma’ he continues ‘instant Karma's gonna get you Gonna knock you right on the head You better get yourself together Pretty soon you're gonna be dead What in the world you thinking of Laughing in the face of love What on earth you tryin' to do It's up to you, YEAH YOU Instant Karma's gonna get you Gonna look you right in the face Better get yourself together darlin' Join the human race How in the world you gonna see Laughin' at fools like me Who on earth d'you think you are A super star Well, right you are Well we all shine on Like the moon and the stars and the sun Well we all shine on Ev'ryone come on Instant Karma's gonna get you Gonna knock you off your feet Better recognize your brothers Ev'ryone you meet Why in the world are we here Surely not to live in pain and fear Why on earth are you there When you're ev'rywhere Come and get your share
@Cristozen1
5 жыл бұрын
So, one of the difficulties you're having with this song is because of your age and the fact that you did not grow up with the Beatles and John Lennon. People love John because he made radical statements and decisions in his life that pointed to an AUTHENTIC life. His statements of disbelief are because he was exposed to one hypocrisy after another and was also he himself worshipped nearly as some kind of deity. He would be the first one to agree with you that people should not believe or disbelieve something just because he said so. He publicly reminded people that he was just another human being. You can't possibly understand how the Beatles changed this world. There is nothing in current culture to even begin to come close. Not even Elvis was as popular as the Beatles and John himself said that women were throwing themselves at them and it became a world of meaningless sex and drugs filled with a terrible emptiness. He decried the fact that the girls screamed so much in their live concerts that at times they just stopped singing and pretended to sing because no one could hear their music anyway. They turned to all kinds of Eastern religion after that and found out that the Maharishi that they followed in India was a fraud and was sexually using the female followers. Drugs nearly destroyed him. His wife Yoko helped bring him to some peace. She was brought up Buddhist in Japan and so that was her disillusionment. When he left the Beatles people were so angry that he'd destroyed their "dream" that they attacked Yoko. And John was brought down by violence and he spent years as a peace activist and an anti-war activist. His love of peace is what he is remembered for and his kindness to the average person.
@brainsareus
5 жыл бұрын
Robert Zimmerman: aka, Bob Dylan [singer/songwriter]
@Hi-kq1vi
5 жыл бұрын
Dylan did a great song about God called Jokerman.
@StevenDeangelo-b1l
4 ай бұрын
The guy at the end of the video getting Johns autograph is the man who shot him
@benprastitis3341
5 жыл бұрын
Thats disappointing. I enjoy your channel for your reactions to music. Not to be preached to. And such a narrow perspective! You said not a word about the other relgions/beliefs/superstitions he mentioned. Christians supposedly condemn Intolerance,. Sadly, they often fall foul of it themselves.
@StoneMalone
5 жыл бұрын
I just believe in me....in the end all you have is yourself. If you love yourself and only hold your standards to yourself, not how other judge...
@clydeb7713
5 жыл бұрын
John was exposed to and personally experienced soo many different things. The thing I always admired about him was his candid raw honesty. He said what he felt, like it or not. He truly was in love with his wife Yoko,who was the most important thing in his life. He went back to her after leaving her for some soul searching.
@clydeb7713
5 жыл бұрын
@kevin Joseph John was a deeply troubled soul. He had a very rough childhood with little love. Fame fortune and drugs didn't help matters. He was maturing and fighting his demons when he was senselessly murdered. We are not to judge others.
@DaveSCameron
5 жыл бұрын
We All Shine On!
@omaevaliantevaldez9362
4 жыл бұрын
John made this song for peace.
@Cristozen1
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko was John's wife. The walrus quote comes from a song that he sang with the words "I am the walrus."
@cbilky2914
5 жыл бұрын
John was an old tortured soul for sure, but very very talented, the beatles break up was rough for them all.
@Grithron2
5 жыл бұрын
How to miss the point - episode two billion and one
@_CoolHandLuke_
3 жыл бұрын
YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT. I didnt believe in God until i experienced my mothers passing. God hit me like a ton of bricks. I pray for everyone to have an experience because you dont know until it happens, plain and simple.
@betsyab121
5 жыл бұрын
John had a lot of loss in his life, too. And drugs, religion, booze, sex could not fill the void, so in the end he had to strip it all away and just depend on himself and Yoko. It's a very powerful and controversial song coming from John, especially after the "We're bigger than Jesus" incident from 1966! That's why John Lennon is my favorite song writer: he is not afraid to tackle his own inner demons and put himself out there in his lyrics. It's not easy for anyone to expose their pain and anger to the world like that. He has my respect for it. Love it or hate it, it has a powerful message.
@vashna3799
4 жыл бұрын
John believed in reality, which everyone should .
@jameskirschling7887
5 жыл бұрын
Even though I believe in God and Jesus as our savior I like the this song. It is one of my favorites by Lennon. We have to believe in ourselves as well as God and Jesus because if we don't believe in ourselves we cannot fulfill our purpose for God creating us. I hope that makes sense. By the way, I have had several instances where God has "spoken" to me and helped me through troubled times.
@jflaugher
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife. Also, when John said "I was the Walrus" that was a reference to the Beatles' song, "I am the Walrus." And when he said, "I don't believe in Zimmerman" that was a reference to Bob Dylan - who's real name is Robert Zimmerman. Also, this song was written shortly after the Beatles broke up and everybody was acting like the world was ending. John wrote this song about turning things into idols - it doesn't matter what it is, it can be turned into an idol, including the Beatles. And when he said, I just believe in Yoko and me, he's saying that he's not living his life for any reason other than him and his wife.
@MrRoach-yo3mz
5 жыл бұрын
wish Ty knew the story..... hed get the words then
@jgordon5316
5 жыл бұрын
Dylan without a doubt was a great lyrist.
@jflaugher
5 жыл бұрын
@@jgordon5316 Dylan was a great songwriter - period.
@merrileekeshiro5420
5 жыл бұрын
I don't know how I got through this song without balling like a baby. John Lennon is my all-time favorite person in all my life. To know this song is to know John Lennon. He was an anti-war activist and studied what created war and it was division and what divides us. War on religion, war on drugs, war on music, war on beliefs, religious wars like in the Middle East. (Christians fighting a muslim war in Afghanistan.) The war he really hated was the Vietnam war when he saw the famous pic of the little girl running down the road covered in a chemical burn. So he started to protest and sing about that, divisions. Yoko Ono is his wife and artist.
@dirk3205
5 жыл бұрын
I loved this song when I was in late high school and in the few years that followed. It resonated with me because I was searching -- studying philosophy, various religions and so forth -- looking for truth. During much of that time, like the song says, I found it difficult to believe in much of anything. But in the end, the song comes to a sad and unsustainable world view. It is one thing to write "imagine all the people, sharing all the world" (as Lennon did elsewhere) from the comfort of your multimillion dollar apartment overlooking Central Park or your peaceful estate in the country. It is quite another to try to live it out. History tells us, if nothing else, that people are not basically "good" and will never solve the problems of the world. Believing in only ourselves -- humanism -- is an invitation for failure. There is away out, but it requires recognizing our spiritual poverty rather than celebrating our goodness. It requires acknowledging that we cannot save ourselves.
@peteypete1216
5 жыл бұрын
grow old along with me a beautiful song by him i think proves his belief in God
@massimobusinello7402
3 жыл бұрын
This song was probably his farewell to the big show of music and fame
@clemdane
5 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget that night. Never.
@patriciadowning4036
4 жыл бұрын
Yoko was his Japanese wife. He left his first wife and the Beatles for Yoko. Lots of bitter feelings over it. But it was his decision.
@kevinstarr67
5 жыл бұрын
John Lennon wrote his song almost immediately after The Beatles broke up. This was his way of saying that he was leaving everything behind up to that point, and that he was only going to do and deal with in terms of just himself and his wife, Yoko Ono, with no other influences from the outside.
@mariekaye3244
5 жыл бұрын
John..Lennon......the single greatest force in Rock history......Believed in his relationship with Yoko ---his wife.......... Zimmerman is Bob Dylans real Name..... Yea....what is wrong with not believing in all of humanities violence?? He believed in the love of Himself and Yoko.....there is nothing else
@kenhellberg7973
5 жыл бұрын
He believes in Reality... YOKO was his wife
@TWisM009
5 жыл бұрын
Its hard to believe something with no evidence.
@donw804
5 жыл бұрын
This song came out shortly after the Beatles broke up. John had become ever more cynical of politics, religion, war, etc. But it's the ending of the song that he tells us, the kids (and some adults) that adored the Beatles and were heart-broken on news of their break-up, that we must all move on. "I don't believe in Beatles....that was yesterday....I was the walrus, but now I'm John....the dream is over". Always made me sad.
@orsie200
5 жыл бұрын
Thank God John Lennon did not live to see where we are today in this country. Then again, had he lived, we may not be in this pitiful, pathetic political situation! He wanted peace. No peace. No justice. ☮️ Yoko was his second wife, and she remains his widow to this day. Yoko was blamed for breaking up The Beatles. I think in the song he was trying to say that people look for a crutch, whether it be God, yoga, the Bible, or Jesus. My Grandmother used to express the same idea. I’m sad John Lennon was assassinated. BTW, I saw The Beatles perform live. John also caused controversy when once being interviewed he declared The Beatles to be “more popular than Jesus”. kzitem.info/news/bejne/zJBstIBpooB_gKg
@jenniferzahnow5898
5 жыл бұрын
It’s a concept he made others actual think about... you have to believe in yourself, first, to make the world better (is how I’ve always interpreted his music, in some way). The best thought someone has ever made contemplate... “everyone says they believe in, they life for, and they worship god, Jesus and the book, and they have never seen proof... yet, they can’t believe in, live life for or worship themselves, whom they physically see and feel everyday... do not discredit your beliefs, just know there is one that you have to believe in first to make it through life...” hit hard, but it’s true if you actually sit and think about it. John had that type of mind. RIP.
@overthewebb
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not religious, but the meaning of the song isn't what religious people are thinking. He was wanting a new start and so was saying he didn't believe in anything but him and Yoko.
@quattrolune
4 жыл бұрын
Yoko was is wife. "I was the walrus" is about his Song during beatles era, called "I am the walrus". Actually, listening to this Song without knowing his personal experience, or what beatles have been in the culture of '900, it's hard to understand. "The dream is over YESTERDAY", you can also read "The dream is over when the beatles (yesterday) broke". It was tipical for Lennon, find double sense in his lyrics. That's why i said that if you don't know his life, you know only the top of the iceberg. Elvis and Dylan were his heroes.You can also look for his interview about Jesus and Beatles in 1966, and what happened immediatly later. Bye.enjoy. (Sorry for my english)
@lumpylowell
5 жыл бұрын
This song means something different imo. At the time, he just wanted to be left alone to raise his child with his wife Yoko and the song is a metaphor. He was tired of Fielding endless questions from the media, esp about whether the Beatles would ever reunite. It's a statement that his beliefs were unimportant, and that you should think for yourself. He was very uneasy with people following his every word and stopped making music and giving interviews for several years.
@suziewong2181
5 жыл бұрын
MRM Yoko Ono was John's 2nd wife...they were married in 1969 and were together when he was shot/murdered in N.Y. Dec of 80' while they were trying to get "some" custody of Yoko's child from a previous relationship. That is also a story in itself. It was all quite sad actually. The general meaning of the song was that we were born into pain and men worship many false idols...and John even meant that people that "idolized" the Beatles. Something John was not comfortable with. It was a time John was looking at the world and all the things that were going on during that time. John was NOT an atheist...he had faith in God but NOT "religion". Sounds familiar? There's A LOT more but that is part of the story in a nut shell, if you will...
@AC-gb7do
5 жыл бұрын
In an interview conducted in September 1980, three months before his death, Lennon told Playboy journalist David Sheff: "People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow." When talking about Bob Dylan's new-found Christianity, Lennon said, "But the whole religion business suffers from the 'Onward, Christian Soldiers' bit. There's too much talk about soldiers and marching and converting. I'm not pushing Buddhism, because I'm no more a Buddhist than I am a Christian, but there's one thing I admire about the religion [Buddhism]: There's no proselytizing."
@suziewong2181
5 жыл бұрын
@@AC-gb7do I actually read that article back then! lol. I don't remember much of it to be honest. It was a long time ago so my memory with details is fuzzy and I don't like to post anything I don't know is true or is close enough to be true in general. Thanks more details...I will look up that article and read it once again!
@ClumsyMumsy
5 жыл бұрын
Never heard this one, he must have been in a lot of pain, but I like it
@oscarwilde6649
5 жыл бұрын
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain". THAT is Lennon's quote and I think that he is spot-on with it. You claimed that you paid very close attention to the lyrics but you missed the core element of the opening verse ("by which we measure our pain"). You repeatedly deride him, via hyperbole and condescension, for his exhaustive iconoclasm. There are tens of millions of us who "don't believe" in all of the garbage and "heroes" that he listed in the song. You can't fathom or respect Lennon's iconoclasm because you're a fundamentalist Christian. His negative references to the core elements that you believe in (Jesus, bible) visibly upset you and this was the catalyst for your nearly 5:00 defensive pontification and rant defending your belief in an invisible Man in the Sky. By the way, genius, Lennon believed in a lot of things. He just didn't believe in the Invisible Man in the Sky fantasy and delusion that you adhere to. One cannot see, touch, hear, smell, or taste your "God". You have irrational, complete faith that this Invisible Man in the Sky exists but, alas, there is no physical evidence available to corroborate his existence, is there?. Lennon believed in and embraced a multiplicity of things. He just didn't publicize or brag about his extensive charitable work that included elimination of global hunger (especially in Africa), mitigation of air, water, and land pollution, stopping Arctic drilling by Big Oil, Potable Water Initiatives for African nations, and supporting the goal of immunizations/vaccinations for all African newborns and children. He contributed SUBSTANTIALLY to The Jerry Garcia Foundation. Your comments reflect a disturbing smugness about your spiritual beliefs and derision of those who don't believe in YOUR faith. You claim that your "God" experience was authentic, true, "a fact, PERIOD", regardless of anyone who claims otherwise. Remember, fundamentalist Christian, extraordinary claims necessitate extraordinary evidence. And you simply don't have it. It doesn't physically exist. Your ENTIRE belief system is replete with and based on the supernatural.
@kane4091
5 жыл бұрын
spot on. expect this post to be removed tho like the rest of the critical ones have been.
@Modern-Renaissance-Man
5 жыл бұрын
Everything you said is meaningless no matter how intellectual you try to sound. It's Ok to believe and think the way that you do. Why wouldn't you? You've never had an experience. Thanks for the confirmation regarding what you said in your last sentence. " Your ENTIRE belief system is replete with and based on the supernatural" 1. Supernatural-(of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature. Like I said You've never had an experience.
@mayritspain5179
5 жыл бұрын
OscarWilde66 i dont believe in john lennon or oscar wild.
@oscarwilde6649
5 жыл бұрын
@@DrMark1981 Thank you, Dr. Robinson. I hold an M.Ed C&I, (TESOL). I have taught English at all academic levels over the last 22 years. The fundamentalist "Christian" responded to my post by attacking me as purposefully "trying to sound intellectual" and that my commentary was "meaningless". Shocker! We know now that this wasn't a reaction to a piece of music. He made no references to the song itself: musically, vocally, contextually, etc. He didn't even do basic research on someone who he, I would assume, knew significantly impacted musical, political, and cultural life worldwide.
@Modern-Renaissance-Man
5 жыл бұрын
@@oscarwilde6649 Didn't attack you once. I'm not a fundamental Christian. I made my statement and stand by it. Plain and simple. It's a reaction not research video. I react to it the way I react to it. Holding your degrees don't mean anything except you were taught what someone taught the person that taught you. Again it's ok. You never had an experience so you can't understand. I didn't live to experience John and the Beatles so who am I to to deny those that did experienced them by saying that's a load of crap? After this I'm done with the conversation. It will be an on going argument to end. God bless you anyhow. Continue to educate share your knowledge and inspire.
@musicforthefrogs1936
4 жыл бұрын
This made me cry
@kathleen3177
5 жыл бұрын
He was talking about his belief in himself and Yoko(his wife), not in idols (of any kind). Being as simple and true to one's self as one can be. It's deep, that was John Lennon. I still miss him, his talent. I always believed that the relationship between him and Yoko was one of the great loves of all time
@davidvornsand6054
5 жыл бұрын
I hope you research more John Lennon and the Beatles. This was to many young people in the 60s was our religion. The adults in control were killing people in Viet nam and killing our young service people for a war that nobody wanted.over two million civilians and sixty thousand young american soldiers lost there lives.That might be a reason John Lennon wrote this song. Respect.
@ploppill34
5 жыл бұрын
Dig deeper
@edmondlau511
2 жыл бұрын
That was the great Billy Preston on piano there, hence the distinct sound you hear. John had been let down by so much in life, he was just happy that he found Yoko. He lived across Central Park in NYC, he was shot downstairs at the entrance of his apartment, I believe Yoko still lives there. It's a very popular place for tourists to visit, I have been there myself. Across the street at Central Park there's a small area with IMAGINE in tile on the ground. Every year on the anniversary of his death and his birthday and I also believe other days such as 9/11, people gather there to play music and sing.
@dannynix6816
5 жыл бұрын
Religion is not a substitute for a personal relationship with Christ Himself.
@LaStarza61
Жыл бұрын
You completely missed the point of this song. I think most self-righteous people don't understand it.
@brendapaddlety2413
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow Ty...this is my first time hearing this song,sorry but it's disturbing and sad John didn't believe in God 😢 God has always been there for me 😀 When my mom passed away my heart was broken 💔 and it ached so bad I felt like I was going to die,I prayed and asked God to give me peace and comfort after awhile I felt this warm feeling wash over me I felt at peace 🙏 God answered my prayer.God is good! 💙👍
@brendapaddlety2413
5 жыл бұрын
@@DrMark1981 I'm sorry for your loss 😢 I didn't mean to come off as patronizing sorry I offended you Mark I guess I should keep my beliefs to myself,but I get tired of people blaming God for all the bad things that happen in life...I guess to each his/her own.
@charleshonig7080
5 жыл бұрын
God helps those who help themselves, this is what Mr Lennon is saying.
@southernwanderer7912
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko Ono is John Lennon's second wife. She's Japanese. She's alive today. They had a son together, Sean. John also has another son from his first wife, Cynthia, named Julian, named after John's mother,. You could say John actually abandoned his first son, just as his father did to him. Everybody seemed to hate Yoko. The news people treated her horribly. They blamed her for the Beatles breakup, whereas, I blame their breakup on the lose of their manager, Brian Epstein. After their manager died, John, George Harrison (whose religion he bashed in this song because George eventually converted to Hinduism and became very religious), and drummer Ring Starr picked one manager, and Paul McCartney, part of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting team, picked another manager, which caused a lot of animosity and friction. John Lennon worked fo4r and sang about peace. He had a campaign and song called "War is Over If You Want It." This was during the Vietnam era. John and Yoko, during their honeymoon, had a bed-in for peace. Reporters thought they were going to see John and Yoko having sex, he said, but they messages of peace and no war instead. He was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. A result of this was the FBI following him around and spying on him (documents have recently been declassified on this). The Nixon administration, at the urging of racist Sen. Strom Thurmond, tried to have him deported. It took years of lawsuits before he finally got his green card. They even tried to set him up in a drug bust, which failed. When his son, Sean, by Yoko, was born, he stopped recording and became a house husband, raising Sean as Yoko ran the music business enterprise. In 1980, he came back into the limelight with a new album. Supposedly, a fan is the one that shot him as the album was being released. However, many believe the government actually took Lennon out because they were scared of his influence if he was putting out songs again and speaking out.
Without knowing the history of the Beatles or John Lennon, you spotted the "upset" and "let down" part that this song is about. Damn, you're so good at interpreting. John Lennon preached love and peace. He actually had a song called "All You Need Is Love" while he was with the Beatles. After the Beatles, he devoted himself to the peace/no war movement. I feel in my heart that John Lennon died a Christian, as he was raised. The example at the end of the video, "You get out of one car and into another," says it all. That mean afterlife.
@luigimarzo2946
4 жыл бұрын
I am the Walrus is a Beatles song
@BLUEOHIO
4 жыл бұрын
GOD IS REAL AND LIVES IN OUR HEARTS AND JESUS THE SON OF GOD ,,MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOD BLESS
@agemoth
5 жыл бұрын
You really need to read up on The Beatles and John Lennon otherwise you will be very ignorant about the history of rock and pop music. I'm still shocked you never recognised George Harrison in another video.
@michaelbenenson
4 жыл бұрын
Whatever whoever we conceive/perceive - we are the assemblers interpretatively: that is what Lennon centres on (as does Buddhism) : the 'I'.... that feels, thinks, hears, sees, touches, smells, tastes......
@peterbooth793
2 жыл бұрын
Yoko is Yoko Ono, John's wife. I believe that John wrote the song shortly after their unborn child that died in Yoko's womb. They even recorded the child's final heartbeats 💓. I don't know if he ever used that recording in a song or not.
@southernwanderer7912
5 жыл бұрын
This is such a sad song to me. In it, he turns against everything that he ever held dear after the Beatles' breakup. He also allowed Yoko to guide him into things like I Ching, classical Chinese divination, and numerology, which, of course, didn't, and couldn't, work out for him. He was extremely angry at the world after the band broke up, especially at Paul McCartney. If you've ever read the book "Lennon Remembers," (the "Rolling Stone" interview made into a book) you'll see the anger he has for Paul and, basically, everything else at this time in his life. MRM, you should react to John's song, "Mother." It's very powerful and emotional. As I said below in another comment, this song is the result of his psychological treatment called Primal Scream, which he was undergoing during the making of this album. It was supposed to get him past his hurtful childhood. In this song, he backs his own voice in this song as an overlay. Here's a link: kzitem.info/news/bejne/lHpm1IGwgZx-hW0
@129robertp
4 жыл бұрын
He's talking about the literalism of concepts
@neil0666
5 жыл бұрын
My youngest son shares birthday with John. It was a great loss
@tallmn1957
5 жыл бұрын
There are so many great replies here and I'm a bit hesitant to add to the pot but I'll do it anyway. This has probably already been said. John had some pretty bad experiences growing up and coped with them the only way he knew how and that was drinking and lashing out with anger. Halfway through the Beatles career they all tried many different methods looking for an answer or even just a way out whether it be drugs, meditation, religion, even music or what have you. In the end he discovered that none of it worked for him and that being the case he of course would no longer believe in any of those experiences that let him down. He's saying that at the end of the tunnel he found that all there is is he and his love, Yoko, and to him that's reality. He ends by telling Beatle fans that the dream is over and that they will have to carry on by themselves. He says that at one time he was a Beatle but no longer is. The dream is over.
@hoopjo12345
3 жыл бұрын
Speaking for all The Beatles fans out there I am a huge fan
@tedholiday3511
4 жыл бұрын
So sad to die without Jesus............. Forever is a long time !
@davidvornsand9551
Жыл бұрын
If you don't believe in yourself you can not believe in anything!
@belleferrar8898
5 жыл бұрын
Yoko Ono changed John in a big way. He had been the sensitive one of the Beatles but when he got with her, everything went to hell.
@davidleland8729
5 жыл бұрын
Outstanding! Great artist taken too soon!
@mlhesler68
5 жыл бұрын
Buddha never intended for his beliefs to be "religionized" it was a belief system to become one with nature and the universe to reach nirvana.
@Che_Se
4 жыл бұрын
yo the point of the song is that we are in complete control of the meaning we give to everything, so when he doesn't believe in god - he believes in him, he is in a way saying that god is within him because he chooses what he believes and subscribes to. I think that if a person believes in god then that concept becomes a part of them as a person and they experienced that in their lives, like an atheist would have no experience of god in their lives, they would just see "coincidence" and probability in everything (:
@gomezmaidelyn4658
5 жыл бұрын
I’ve had a pretty good life, but I still don’t believe in any god/gods. All of my family is christian but I respect other peoples’ believes as long it doesn’t hurt anyone physically.
@MRM-Wendy
5 жыл бұрын
I remember when he was killed..i cried 2 weeks...i was only 7 but after Elvis died, john lennon was my music idol. My mom said she never seen a child mourn for someone who had never met. That person. I did same for Elvis too.
@richardbutler7547
5 жыл бұрын
The real question is... Have you met Him? Meeting Jesus changed who I am. It was like a bullet hitting a rock, I was going one way and now I'm going another. Ty play Born on the Bayou by CCR
@davidleland8729
5 жыл бұрын
I think that him saying believe should be interpritated as trust. God is constant and always by our side.
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