John Lennon

John Lennon (1940-1980)


LOVE

Love can be a moment's madness
Love can be insane
Love can be a life of sadness and pain
Love can be a summer shower
Love can be the sun
Love can be two hearts that flower as one It can be, fine and free
But that kind Is not so very easy to find
Love can be a dying ember
Love can be a flame
Love pledged in September May be dead in DecemberYou may not even remember it came
Love can be a joy forever Or an empty name
Love is almost never ever the same
Love can be an evil-doer
Love can be a fog
Love can make you feel like you were a dog
Love can be a snow-capped mountain
Love can be the truth
Love can be an endless fountain of youth
It can be ecstasy But it's true It doesn't always happen to you
Love can be a four-score failure
Love can bring you fame
Love fresh as the morning May be wild when it's 'borning
And then without any warning, it's tame
Oh love can be a sweet endeavor Or a dirty shame
Love is almost never ever, the same!

If John Lennon had only been one of the four members of the Beatles, his artistic immortality would already have been assured. The so-called "smart Beatle," he brought a penetrating intelligence and a stinging wit both to the band's music and its self-presentation. But in such songs as "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "Rain" and "In My Life," he also marshaled gorgeous melodies to evoke a sophisticated, dreamlike world-weariness well beyond his years. Such work suggested not merely a profound musical and literary sensibility - a genius, in short -- but a vision of life that was simultaneously reflective, utopian and poignantly realistic.He was shot dead by a gunman named Mark Chapman.

- John Lenon