"Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

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

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

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 live as one"

It's hard not to contemplate these lyrics as I sit in my cubicle at King Library. It's currently thunder-storming outside, I have a cup of coffee in hand, and I'm researching/writing about humanitarian interventions, postwar peace building initiatives, and the like. These are the kinds of lyrics that will be remembered for years. Just as these conflicts will be. John Lennon writes "Imagine" in 1971, just around the time that civil war was heating up in El Salvador, and many other countries around the world.