If I can dream

Wouldn´t be happy with no Religion; wouldn´t be happy with nothing to die and kill for; wouldn´t be happy with no parting love from my country fellowman; wouldn´t be happy with no country; wouldn´t be happy with no properties, no intimacies, no secrets; wouldn´t be happy being stripped of my individuality; wouldn´t be happy with peace primordial to freedom, wouldn´t be happy, I certainly not, without hope.

The later is just all the crap Mr. Lennon yearned for, well... imagined.

As opposed take, please, this beauty below. The voice is Elvis´,  a great Southerner, Gospel bred... O, God! Thanks to Freedom and Internet we can remedy lagoons of idiocy.

All Man should have them!

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If I can dream

http://www.goear.com/listen/699330a/if-i-can-dream-elvis-presley

There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
Tell me why, o why, o why can´t my dream come true
O, why.

There must be peace and understanding sometime
Strong winds of promise that will blow away
All the doubt and fear
If I can dream of a warmer sun
Where hope keeps shining on everyone
Tell me why, o why, o why won´t that sun appear.

Were lost in a cloud
With too much rain
Were trapped in a world
That´s troubled with pain
But as long as a man
Has the strength to dream
He can redeem his soul and fly.

Deep in my heart there´s a trembling question
Still I am sure that the answer gonna come somehow
Out there in the dark, there´s a beckoning candle, yeah,
And while I can think, while I can talk,
While I can stand, while I can walk,
While I can dream, please let my dream
Come true, o, right now,
Let it come true right now,
O, yeah.