Imagine -- Emmanuel Kelly, The X Factor Auditions

Imagine is a song that has deep personal meaning to me. This version is sung by teenaged Emmanual, orphaned and born in a war zone in Iraq. I do believe that we are one and that we can live that way.  

Emmanual has been axed from the Australian X Factor competition but Yoko Ono  put up his Imagine performance on her web site and told the young singer her late husband would have been proud of him. 


The lyrics were printed on a friend's memorial card and we sang the song over and over at his wake.
 
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