Imagine/You May Say I'm a Dreamer/Not the Only One

Today is Friday, 8 December 2006.

On this date in 1980, a friend called.

"Do you know?"

"Know what?"

“Then you don't. Is your TV or radio on?”

“No.”

“Then sit down.”

I did.

“John Lennon has just been assassinated.”

She knew it would be a great shock to me, and wanted to break the news gracefully.

Over to John:

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
Nowhere below us
Above 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 people
Living 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...

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.

A few days later, a concert/rally in the public square of the city where I lived.

A mother holding her baby: "You don't know now who Lennon was, but someday, I'll tell you, and you'll know you were here when we mourned him."