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The Lyrics Stand Today (1980). They're Still My Feeling About Politics. I Want To See The Plan. I Want To Know What You're Going To Do After You've Knocked It All Down. I Mean, Can't We Use Some Of It? What's The Point Of Bombing Wall Street? If You Want To Change The System, Change The System. It's No Good Shooting People.

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The Lyrics Stand Today

John Lennon

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The Lyrics Stand Today (1980). They're Still My Feeling About Politics. I Want To See The Plan. I Want To Know What You're Going To Do After You've Knocked It All Down. I Mean, Can't We Use Some Of It? What's The Point Of Bombing Wall Street? If You Want To Change The System, Change The System. It's No Good Shooting People.

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It Seems That All Revolutions End Up With A Personality Cult - Even The Chinese Seem To Need A Father-figure.

I Started Being Me About The Songs, Not Writing Objectively, But Subjectively. I Think It Was Dylan Who Helped Me Realize That - Not By Any Discussion Or Anything, But By Hearing His Work.

And So This Is Xmas For Black And For White, For Yellow And Red, Let's Stop All The Fight.

Now, In The Sixties We Were Naive, Like Children. Everybody Went Back To Their Rooms And Said 'we Didn't Get A Wonderful World Of Just Flowers And Peace And Happy Chocolate, And It Won't Be Just Pretty And Beautiful All The Time,' And Just Like Babies Everyone Went Back To Their Rooms And Sulked. 'we're Going To Stay In Our Rooms And Play Rock And Roll And Not Do Anything Else, Because The World's A Nasty Horrible Place, Because It Didn't Give Us Everything We Cried For.' Right? Crying For It Wasn't Enough.

Pools Of Sorrow. Waves Of Joy.

Life Is What Happens When We Are Busy Doing Other Things. Peace Is Not Something You Wish For; It's Something You Make, Something You Do, Something You Are And Something You Give Away.

Coping Mechanisms

Paranoia Is Just A Heightened Sense Of Awareness

You're Just Left With Yourself All The Time, Whatever You Do Anyway. You've Got To Get Down To Your Own God In Your Own Temple. It's All Down To You, Mate.

I Didn't Come After Elvis And Dylan, I've Been Around Always. But If I See Or Meet A Great Artist, I Love 'em.

Paul (mccartney) And I Made A Deal When We Were 15. There Was Never A Legal Deal Between Us, Just A Deal We Made When We Decided To Write Together That We Put Both Our Names On It, No Matter What.

Nor Do I Think We Came From Monkeys, By The Waythat's Another Piece Of Garbage. What The Hell's It Based On? We Couldn't've Come From Anything-fish, Maybe, But Not Monkeys. I Don't Believe In The Evolution Of Fish To Monkeys To Men. Why Aren't Monkeys Changing Into Men Now? It's Absolute Garbage. It's Absolutely Irrational Garbage, As Mad As The Ones Who Believe The World Was Made Only Four Thousand Years Ago, The Fundamentalists.

The Only Reason I Went For That Goal Is That I Wanted To Say: 'now, Mummy-daddy, Will You Love Me?'

All I Want Is The Truth, Just Give Me Some Truth

I Don't Believe In Killing Whatever The Reason!

Keep You Doped With Religion And Sex And Tv

Working Class Hero

I Remember A Time When Everybody I Loved Hated Me Because I Hated Them.

If There's Anything That You Want, If There's Anything I Can Do, Just Call On Me, And I'll Send It Along With Love From Me To You.

When We Came Along There Was Only Decca, Philips And Emi Who Could Really Produce A Record For You. You Had To Go Through The Whole Bureaucracy To Get Into The Recording Studio. You Were In Such A Humble Position, You Didn't Have More Than 12 Hours To Make A Whole Album, Which Is What We Did In The Early Days.

It Was A Choice Of Making It Or Still Eating Chicken Onstage.

I've Never Met Anybody Who's Had A Flashback In My Life And I Took Millions Of Trips In The Sixties, And I've Never Met Anybody Who Had Any Problem. I've Had Bad Trips, But I've Had Bad Trips In Real Life. I've Had A Bad Trip On A Joint. I Can Get Paranoid Just Sitting In A Restaurant; I Don't Have To Take Anything.

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