HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER).
Yoko and I wrote it together. It says it: ‘War is over – if you want it.’ Because it was still that same message: the idea that somebody is either going to give us power or [has] taken our power or has made us go to war or not made you go to war. Or the President did this to us.
We are just as responsible as the man who presses the button. It’s that idea of ‘god in the sky’ is a separate thing, you know? It’s all that separation. It’s all the same thing – nationalities, religions, authority – it’s all the same garbage. As long as people imagine that it’s something people are doing to them, they have no control.
The people have the power. We must try an make them aware of this.
You can stop everything by stopping – slowing the whole place down – giving people time to think.
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE.
I wrote ‘Give Peace a Chance’ because I felt an obligation as an artist to fight something for our generation, and our generation was interested in peace. I wanted them to have a song that was written this century for them to sing; so I sat down and wrote ‘Give Peace a Chance’. And I think in that way, and with Yoko’s help, and both of us promoting peace as we do, almost like a product, that we think we’ve helped get peace into people’s consciousness. Maybe our constituency, maybe the young people, I think we’ve been infiltrated also older minds as well. It is subliminal and sometimes you say something you don’t realise what you’re saying, you don’t even know the importance of what you’re saying until months later.
We don’t even know what this record will mean to people until next year or say two years’ time, then we’ll really know what it meant.
ElectroLeague @electroleague.ig would like to thank @TheAcademy for including “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko” on the 96th OSCARS® SHORTLIST for Best Animated Short.
𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲.𝗰𝗼𝗺.
Directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker, story by Sean Ono Lennon and Dave Mullins.
ElectroLeague @electroleague.ig would like to thank @TheAcademy for including “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko” on the 96th OSCARS® SHORTLIST for Best Animated Short.
𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲.𝗰𝗼𝗺.
Directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker, story by Sean Ono Lennon and Dave Mullins.
HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER).
Discover the story behind the song.
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Lyrics for ‘Give Peace A Chance’ in John’s handwriting on the back of an envelope, 1969.
First of all, conceive of the idea of no nation, no passport. If you’re not defending a nation there’s nothing to fight about.
We’ve said it a million times – first of all we conceived of flying, then we flew. It took a long time to get up in the air, and it was a lot of sticking feathers together and melting under the sun and all that, but conceiving the idea is the first move.
We’re not the first to say “Imagine No Countries” or “Give Peace a Chance,” but we’re carrying that torch, like the Olympic torch, passing it hand to hand, to each other, to each country, to each generation…and that’s our job. Not to live according to somebody else’s idea of how we should live – rich, poor, happy, not happy, smiling, not smiling, wearing the right jeans, not wearing the right jeans.
I’m not claiming divinity, I’ve never claimed purity of soul, I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can, but only as honestly as I can – no more, no less. I cannot live up to other people’s expectations of me because they’re illusionary. I cannot be a punk in Hamburg and Liverpool, because I’m older now. I see the world through different eyes now.
But I still believe in peace, love, and understanding, as Elvis Costello said. What’s so fucking funny about peace, love, and understanding? It’s fashionable to be a go-getter and slash thy neighbor with a cross, but we’re not one to follow the fashion.
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THE COMPLETE YOKO ONO WORD POEM GAME. (For Yokos with heads full of problems). To Yoko with love from John, Tuesday July 28 1970 L.A. Now available as fridge magnets from the US Official John Lennon Store. #mindgames
THE COMPLETE YOKO ONO WORD POEM GAME. (For Yokos with heads full of problems). To Yoko with love from John, Tuesday July 28 1970 L.A. Now available as fridge magnets from the US Official John Lennon Store. #mindgames
THE COMPLETE YOKO ONO WORD POEM GAME. (For Yokos with heads full of problems). To Yoko with love from John, Tuesday July 28 1970 L.A. Now available as fridge magnets from the US Official John Lennon Store. #mindgames
THE COMPLETE YOKO ONO WORD POEM GAME. (For Yokos with heads full of problems). To Yoko with love from John, Tuesday July 28 1970 L.A. Now available as fridge magnets from the US Official John Lennon Store. #mindgames
THE COMPLETE YOKO ONO WORD POEM GAME. (For Yokos with heads full of problems). To Yoko with love from John, Tuesday July 28 1970 L.A. Now available as fridge magnets from the US Official John Lennon Store. #mindgames
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PEOPLE Presave MIND GAMES (The Ultimate Mixes) on Spotify (→ 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼) and be one of the first to stream the 2 Bonus Tracks: ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll People’ and ‘I’m The Greatest’. #mindgames
THE COMPLETE YOKO ONO WORD POEM GAME. (For Yokos with heads full of problems). To Yoko with love from John, Tuesday July 28 1970 L.A. Now available as fridge magnets from the US Official John Lennon Store. #mindgames
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