Song Comparison: We Re The World And John Lennon-Imagine
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MICHAEL JACKSON - We're The World (USA For Africa) & John Lennon - Imagine.
We’re the world was a song composed by Michael Jackson to raise awareness and funds for a famine long back. It has a humanitarian touch to it as it pleads to the people to save lives of their fellow human beings.
Imagine was a song composed by John Lennon. It encourages the listener to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisiveness of religions and nationalities, and to consider the possibility that the focus of humanity should be living a life unattached to material possessions.
Both the songs are alike in a way that they speak about the world coming together as one and promoting unity across the globe. The only religion that should exist is being one. Michael Jackson says, ‘Let's realize that a change can only come, when we stand together as one’ whereas John Lennon says, ‘I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one’. Thus, unity as a belief and coming together as one is a key similarity here.…show more content… Both songs emphasize on the fact that change starts from within and if each of us decides to take a step towards change, it would result into a great effort collectively.
Both differ in the way that the first song urges people to come together and lend a helping hand to the fellow humans, whereas the second song doesn’t urge people to come together, but rather goes on to state the benefits of coming together in the hope that someday everyone shall realize this. Lennon says: ‘I hope someday you will join us, and the world will be as one’ and Michael says: ‘And it's time to lend a hand to life, the greatest gift of