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It's Like Being Possessed: Like A Psychic Or A Medium. I Felt Like A Hollow Temple Filled With Many Spirits, Each One Passing Through Me, Each Inhabiting Me For A Little Time And Then Leaving To Be Replaced By Another.

-John Lennon

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It's Like Being Possessed:

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It's Like Being Possessed: Like A Psychic Or A Medium. I Felt Like A Hollow Temple Filled With Many Spirits, Each One Passing Through Me, Each Inhabiting Me For A Little Time And Then Leaving To Be Replaced By Another.

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I'd Spent Five Hours That Morning Trying To Write A Song That Was Meaningful And Good, And I Finally Gave Up And Lay Down. Then, "nowhere Man" Came, Words And Music, The Whole Damn Thing, As I Lay Down...song Writing Is About Getting The Demon Out Of Me. It's Like Being Possessed. You Try To Go To Sleep, But The Song Won't Let You. So You Have To Get Up And Make It Into Something, And Then You're Allowed Sleep.

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It Just Was A Gradual Development Over The Years. I Mean Last Year Was 'all You Need Is Love.' This Year, It's 'all You Need Is Love And Peace, Baby.' Give Peace A Chance, And Remember Love. The Only Hope For Us Is Peace. Violence Begets Violence. You Can Have Peace As Soon As You Like If We All Pull Together. You're All Geniuses, And You're All Beautiful. You Don't Need Anyone To Tell You Who You Are. You Are What You Are. Get Out There And Get Peace, Think Peace, And Live Peace And Breathe Peace, And You'll Get It As Soon As You Like.

Love Is You, You And Me. Love Is Knowing We Can Be.

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