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Lrod said

The reason John Lennon sang
"Give peace a chance."
is because peace has no chance.

"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 that 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. "
-John Lennon

And look what happened to him.
Blown away by sniper fire.
Some idiot wanted to go down
in history connected to a celebrity.

Consider this.
Maybe there's an underlying plan.
If the man wasn't gunned down
(so ironically), would these lyrics
be quoted over and over and over?
Don't shoot the messenger?
KaBAM! and the message is resurrected
like Christ himself.

I am an idealist, perhaps.
I imagine a world at peace.
Maybe I am naiive.
If we don't believe
in its possibility,
it will never be.

Wanna fight about it?

Peace is not about language.
Peace is not about religions.
Peace is about understanding.
Peace is about tolerance.
Peace is about love.
Peace is not of the mind, but of the heart.

Dick Cheney's pacemaker must be fake.
He hasn't got a heart.

if i only had a brain
i'd follow roads
that werent yellow
i'd file papers
that werent green
i'd run a motion
thatd run forever
i'd have a flyer
overhead
if i only had a heart
i'd find some ways
to get around it
around the feelings
every september
in the sun
if i only had a ROAR
i'd tell everyone what to do
and everyone including you
thered be no traffic
no more pillows
thered be no monkeys
sniffing glue
imagine no more clergy
i wonder if they could
no one to be the middle man
no one to pray for you
you'd have to pray for yourself
and everyone else
and we'd have no bingo on saturday nite
can you imagine no more landmines
i wonder if you'd dare
no houses built with walls
no stupid fences to tear
and can you imagine
a cop without a brain
a cop without a heart
a cop without a roar
a cop without a home
cause the millions of people
out on the street today this morning, tonite
made a few mistakes or two
but nothing like the cops did
when they invaded the zoo
would you throw a dime to a homeless cop
or would you just hand him a bag
or would you go buy him pizza
or would you dress him in dra-a-ag
yeah yeah yeah
if i only had a brain.

all piggy wanted was peace. and they killed piggy. THEY FUCKING KILLED PIGGY!

all piggy wanted was peace.

Let's go out and
work for peace
before the end
of the world comes.

They kill ya when you’re walking in Bagdad.
They kill ya when you’re walking in My Lai.
They kill ya when you’re walking in Inchon.
They kill ya when you’re walking in Dresden.
When will all this killing cease?
Everybody must have peace.

And when the two headed monsters all masticate,
they try very hard to use me for bait
to catch the peace they say we all await.
I say it’s here now, they just hesitate.

I can’t understand why pawns are sent to fight.
I can’t understand why any man should want the might
of the world-
illegitimate peace.

I can’t understand how they control your minds.
They’re building their empire in plain sight, they hope we don’t
see the signs-
illegitimate peace.

In this day of gods, all love is cast aside.
In the day of danger it is the anger that should be
cast aside-
illegitimate peace.

In high positions are placed all kinds of men.
In this day of power, at any hour, the world could
see its end-
illegitimate peace.

There is an audio part to this

<center>Peacemakers, people’s friends.
They die.
Death steals breath,
not messages.
Wanting war, hate
morphed into peace.
They’re people’s friends.</center>

hang around the inkwell long enough
and you'll get twenty years of schoolin
and theyll take you off the age draft
look out, kids
it's somethin that you did
dont know when
but theyre gunnin down the hen pen
the punks won't work cause the scandals killed the sandals.

Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
to be stuck inside of Tehran with the
Bagdad peace again?

Peaceful as peace is peace is fleeting.
Stealth, health, wealth war
removes what we’re living for.
Peaceful as peace is peace is fleeting.

i was singing in my car
when i thought i noticed a haze
and i said to captian arab
"hey is this the end of days?"
is this day into night
is this the way?
he "said, it might, but i dont know where my sketchbook
is at"
he left it on the plane

Ya fairies, don’t you know
peace ain’t able to put food on my tables
or design my ice sculptures
or put diamond rings
on the fingers
of the woman
who lingers
or throw a party
for my wife
love of my life
on occasion.
Persuasion for invasion
offers more taxes for evasion.