How go forward into something we're not sure of? ...

Sometimes when we look for answers we only find more questions...

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn?
How can I go forward into something that I'm not sure of?
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can I have feeling if I don't know if it's a feeling?
How can I feel something if I just don't know how to feel,
How can I have feelings when my feelings have always been denied?
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
How can I give love when I just don't know how to give?
How can I give love when love is something I aint never had?
Oh no,
Oh no,

You know life can be long,
And you have got to be so strong,
And the world is so tough sometimes I feel I have had enough,
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can we go forward when we don't know which way we're facing?
How can we go forward when we don't know which way to turn?
How go forward into something we're not sure of?
Oh no,
Oh no

sometimes I feel like going down...

isn't life hard ?


King Curtis who played saxophone on the song was murdered just one month before the U.S. release of Imagine.

Jim Gordon who played drums, became an schizophrenic and killed his mother in the early eighties..

and Lennon himself who was the one singing, was killed in NYC ...

Klaus Voorman who played bass, is the only surviving musician of that session...

He's the only that now can say..

But when it's good..
it's really good..
And when I hold you in my arms baby
sometimes I feel like going down...

...I was dreaming of the past.

I think people love John Lennon because when he sings he gets straight to your emotions.. With no filter.. the words just hit you..

There are some of his songs that I just can't listen to if I am having a low.. this is one of them..

The whistle solo is great.. I mean there is a majestic strings section, a superb piano by Nicky Hopkins, the wall of sound production by Phil Spector.. And the solo is Lennon just whistling.. brilliant.