If there was one Lennon song that rawly catches the tensions and paranoia of our current daze, and yet praises the glorious side of human beings, it would have to be “Instant Karma” from 1970.
He well-understood and (personally suffered) human violence and still broadcast the need for love and peace as a greater, higher solution for world problems.
“Yes, we all shine on.”
I can remember, one late evening in 1970, when I first heard this classic returning home on a rather dark bus to the suburbs with only one other guy onboard, beside me and the driver, and “Instant Karma” blasting out from the guy’s transistor, Lennon’ voice filling the bus: “Well, we all shine on, like the moon, the stars, and the sun. Yes we all shine on.”
Yes, John Lennon, a musical legend writ large, still speaking to us 40 years on.