Zeitgeist Imagine

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 live as one ♫ Coming up here today, I have no hidden agenda I am fighting for my future. Losing my future is not like losing an election, or a few points on the stock market. I'm here to speak for all generations to come. I'm here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard. I'm here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have no where left to go. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don't know what chemicals are in it. I used to go fishing with my dad until just a few years ago we found a fish full of cancers. In my life, I have dreamt of seeing great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests, full of birds and butterflies but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see. Parents should be able to confort their children by saying: "Everything is going to be alright, is not the end of the world" But I don't think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? At school, even in kindergarden you teach us how to behave in the world, you teach us to not fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then, why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? In my country, we make so much waste we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away, buy and throw away. And yet northern countries will not share with the needy even when we have more than enough we are afraid to share. My dad always says: "you are what you do, not what you say." Well, what you do makes me cry at night. Here you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organizers, reporters or politicians, but really, you are mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles. I'm only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers and in poverty and finding treaties, what a wonderfull place this earth would be. I'm only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family, five billions strong, in fact, thirty million species strong, and borders and governments will never change that. I'm only a child, yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world, towards one single goal. 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 ♫ Welcome Zeitgeist Day 2010 Unifying The World