All we are saying is give peace a chance...

watched "US vs. John Lennon" on the tube the other day. made my poor father endure as well *grin*
talk about revisiting one of the greatest minds vicariously, through original black and white clips filmed in 1968/9! and just suddenly developing my own personal clarity into the exact sentiments under layering each song and the 'why-s' Lennon wrote each of his revolutionary period songs the way that he did. if anything, i am even more convinced personal stance and contributions make that incremental (and sometimes monumental) difference. and talk about that collective wave of incrementals... and the pure power it yields over governments.
so i would like you to pause in your journey through cyber space, here. and consider where we would be right now, if more of us had stood up in our individual countries in the late 70s. and so okay, whilst past is past and i was being born then... even more relevantly, today.

"Two, One Two Three Four

Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism
Isn't it the most
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talking about
Ministers, Sinisters, Banisters and canisters,
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, Evolution, Mastication, Flagelolation, Regulations.
Integrations, Meditations, United Nations, Congratulations
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Oh Let's stick to it
Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy smothers, Bob Dylan,
Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare Krishna
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance"

Live Peace In Toronto, 1969 Album.