Imagine as covered by Adam Kornowski 10 years old

John T. Inscrutable
John T. Inscrutable
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Published 2018-06-07
I share this out of love for John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and all sentient beings. I share this with the greatest respect, admiration and gratitude to and for Adam. Thank you for singing this. My thanks to Adam Kornowski and his family, who own the rights to this video.

Adam,

I was younger than you when I fell in love with this song, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. When John was brutally assassinated in December of 1980 I had to pull off the freeway, because the tears and pain and loss of all hope for a better world made driving impossible. There were cars pulling over up and down the road. The next several days were like living in a nightmare. Many of us thought his return to music heralded another opportunity to give peace a chance.

For a week or so we listened to his music, and the speeches about him. Then after a couple of weeks the existential and emotional crisis seemed to fade. All that remained were the the black arm bands on those whose lives remained in disarray at having been so easily disabused of our dreams. For me began the loss of music. I played John’s music along with other’s pretty much non-stop. But after that week of initial mourning and almost constant company comforting each other, when the new normal manifested itself, John’s voice was gone. I could not listen to his beautiful music any more. I could listen to covers, no more Beatles either.

Not long ago a cover of Imagine was release by the band, Disturbed. I took a chance and listened. It was raw and gritty and poignant in a way that was very moving. It was a cover and a new song, too. But after listening nothing had changed. It was unique and powerful, and sorrowful. I felt the losses more than the hope of John’s work that I used to feel. That was what I expected.

Today, I heard your cover, Adam, It is poignant. Your cover is a cover, and it is a new song. You made it your own. Adam, this version is also pure, perhaps because of your angelic voice, and that purity filled the words with sincere hope. That hope infected me. I felt it again. I hope that you will keep singing, and I hope your heart is truly in alignment with the hope that your voice carried. A hope that asks us all to get our acts together and fix the messes we have made and learn to love and care for this planet and all the living things on it, most especially, each other.

Thank you, Adam and John Lennon
June 7, 2018
All Comments (18)
  • @reallife0728
    THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!🎤🎤🎤🤎🤎🤎💯💯💯👏👏👏
  • @shakti7457
    He's singing about the world he and all the other children, deserve to live in, not the one they got. 😢
  • @darlenecolley228
    He is amazing, he will be a legend one day. I hope he pursues his gift. 🙏🏼🙏🏼👏👏👏💖
  • @heatherharvey822
    Merry Christmas kiddo. Especially in 2020, everyone needs to hear your magic and innocence. You are the perfect example of what we all need to be.
  • @Trekincat
    The song is about Socialism, LISTEN to the words, NO religion,  Lennon later confirmed that the similarities between his ideals set out in the song and Communism were indeed deliberate: “‘Imagine’, which says: ‘Imagine that there was no more religion, no more country, no more politics,’ is virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though I’m not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement.”