I think Harper's gone seriously off message! Can there possibly be any song that is more abhorrent to Stephen Harper than John Lennon's "Imagine"? It is anti-religion, anti-war, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, anti-pragmatist, anti-greed.
Imagine there's no heavenIt's easy if you tryNo hell below usAbove us only skyImagine all the peopleLiving for today...
Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as one
Imagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will live as one
Here's Harper's inner voice as he sang this socialist anthem:
Imagine the Rapture's just around the corner
It's easy if you try
Hell to the socialists and separatists
Above us God beckons us Creationists
Imagine all the people
Clinging nostalgically for an Eden that never was
Imagine only terrorists around us
It isn't hard to do
Everything to kill and die for
And with God's providence too
Imagine all the people
Living in perpetual war
You may say I'm an unrepentant autocrat
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join me
And I can lead the world as One
Imagine neoliberal deregulated paradise
I wonder if you can
Rapacious greed and unimaginable hunger
A self-regulating cesspool of man
Imagine all the people
Ripping the world to shreds
You may say I'm an unrepentant autocrat
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join me
And I can lead the world as One...