Nobody told me there'd be days like these.

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Nobody told me there'd be days like this

Everybody's talkin' 'bout bagism, shagism, dragism, madism, ragism, tagism. This-ism, that-ism isn't it the most?

Nobody told me there'd be days like these.

Slow news day, but it got the attention of The Beatles. When looking for lyrics, just pick up today's newspaper!!!

The imagery...can YOU imagine Nazis in YOUR bathroom? :)

Uh, John, now that you've asked the question, you should either tell Paul why you asked it or give him a chance to answer.

That's it, he just says scumbag on every other beat. For like 5 minutes!

Lennon has been dead now for a quarter of a century.Time flies or what?The facts behind the case can be summed up thus-He was shot and fatally wounded outside his home by a crazy called Mark Chapman.This guy had led a troubled life from day one,having got himself into drugs,all kinds of bad associations,and ultimately the hatch.Having read the highly controversial novel The Catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger,Chapman strongly identified with it's protagonist,Holden Caulfield-another crazy,who,in his own mixed up world got to believing that he was up against all the corrupting influences of the day.Although Chapman had been a fan of the Beattles,and Lennon especially,he started to percieve Lennon as one of these essentially rotten people,who chuck into their speech subliminal messages which affect people adversely and that kind of thing.Lennon thus grew to become,in an oft-expressed reference of Chapman's,a PHONY.He determined to murder his old favourate.At the time he did it he was in possession of a book which Lennon had signed for him that very evening,and,if memory serves me well,was actually a copy of Catcher in the rye itself.After shooting Lennon he calmly sat down and let himself be arrested.Subsequently he spoke of,quote,Voices in his head urging him not to plead insanity-Here we have a case of insanity seeming to be rebounding on itself.Ofcourse the conspiracy theorists have had a field day with the entire thing.Chapman,and his fictional counterpart Caulfield sound to me like the kind of raving maniacs we'd all become if the world was as Lennon wishes in the famous Imagine.He seems to have been under the impression that without belief in God,without possessions,without anything to kill or die for,and so on,the world would be full of happy souls.Actually the opposite is the case.This proposition is the recipe for a return to the stone age.Without a proper sense of right and wrong,our homes and properties,and our strivings for a better life,guess where we're headed guys?At the risk of repeating myself-straight back to the jungle.No question about it.He speaks of imagining there's no need for greed and hunger-Since when was there a NEED as such for either anyway?Imagine there's no countries-Utter incongruity here.Another thing he does is saying the same thing twice over in a different way,probably without even realising-Imagine there's no Heaven and Hell-A few lines or so later he says-...and no religion too.-Heaven and Hell may sound somewhat archaic nowadays but you can't talk about them and religion as though they were entirely separate issues.You may say he's a dreamer,he tells us.A dreamer?With statements like these Lennon sounds to me more like he was entirely around the bend.He says he's not the only dreamer either.As if one of these peddlars of the world's worst garbage wasn't enough.He hopes that one day we'll all become dreamers so that the world will be as one.A brotherhood of man living life in peace.There could be no better reply to such garbage than DREAM ON.A song like this is the kind of thing which might just have influenced Chapman more than anything else in his mad crusade against the singer.There's an old record kicking around our house featuring Imagine on one side and another of Lennon's famous diatribes on the reverse called Working class hero,in which he really goes to town to make working class people feel as insignificant as possible.Also,he's about the only guy alive at that time who would have got away with chucking the F word into a song twice,as he actually does here.With such ludicrous outpourings as Imagine,and such withering outpourings as Working class hero,guys like Lennon do themselves no favours whatsoever.There are crazies out there who will kill for much less.

You may have imagined it, John, but you didn't exactly practice it.

Well written song, but amateurishly written refrain. Amateurish is what you get when you rhyme a word with itself.

[Ed's comment: Maybe Lennon meant to say "And the world can live as Juan"?]

John's basically telling Paul that he no longer means anything to him.

Not only is it probably the first song to say f***k. But it seems to be refering to the popular kids in american schools. most of the song seems to be against higher classed people. wich would most likely insult them.

One of many autobiographical songs by Lennon, he's describing Yoko Ono. When the song was performed on the Live In New York City album, Lennon wryly adds "I did!"

Actually, two mentioned:
'Yesterday' by the Beatles and 'Another Day' by Paul McCartney

How prophetic!

Lennon got this word from a dream that he had.

Though Lennon said that was nonsense, 'Pousse' is actually a French word meaning to advance.

Imagine here's no the van
No bell hello us
Above us sly on key