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2007

Instant Karma – Save Darfur

John Lennon

Track Listing

  1. Disc 1
    1:14:10
  2. Disc 2
    38:54

The conflict in Darfur, Sudan, has led to some of the worst human rights abuses imaginable, including systematic and widespread murder, rape, abduction and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed by deliberate and indiscriminate attacks, and over 2.5 million civilians have been displaced. Help Amnesty International end the atrocities.

Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur is a compilation album by various artists performing covers of John Lennon’s songs. All proceeds from sales of the album are donated to Amnesty International.

‘It’s wonderful that, through this campaign, music that is so familiar to many people of my era will now be embraced by a whole new generation. John’s music set out to inspire change, and in standing up for human rights, and selling more records, we really can make the world a better place.’

Yoko Ono, 2007

Sleeve notes

Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
Performer – U2
Producer (Additional) – Larry Mullen Jr
Producer, Mixed By – Tal Herzberg

#9 Dream
Performer – R.E.M.
Producer – David Barbe, R.E.M.

Mother
Mixed By, Engineer, Producer – Linda Perry
Performer – Christina Aguilera
Performer (Featuring) – Bigelf

Give Peace A Chance
Performer – Aerosmith
Performer (Featuring) – Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
Producer, Mixed By, Recorded By – Marti Frederiksen

Cold Turkey
Performer, Producer, Arranged By – Lenny Kravitz

Whatever Gets You Through The Night
Performer, Producer – Los Lonely Boys

I’m Losing You
Performer – Corinne Bailey Rae
Producer (Additional), Mixed By – Steve Chrisanthou

Gimme Some Truth
Performer – Jakob Dylan
Performer (With) – Dhani Harrison
Producer – Tony Berg

Oh My Love
Performer, Producer – Jackson Browne
Recorded By, Mixed By – Paul Dieter

Imagine
Performer – Avril Lavigne
Producer – Butch Walker

Nobody Told Me
Performer – Big & Rich
Producer – Adam Shoenfeld

Jealous Guy
Performer – Youssou N’Dour
Producer – Prince N’Dour

Working Class Hero
Mixed By – Chris Lord-Alge
Performer, Producer – Green Day

Power To The People
Performer – Black Eyed Peas
Producer – Will.I.Am

Imagine
Performer – Jack Johnson
Producer – Jack Johnson, Robert Carranza

Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
Performer, Producer – Ben Harper

Isolation
Performer – Snow Patrol
Producer – Garrett “Jackknife” Lee

Watching The Wheels
Performer – Matisyahu
Producer, Programmed By, Mixed By – David Kahne

Grow Old With Me
Performer – Postal Service
Recorded By, Producer – Benjamin Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello

Gimme Some Truth
Co-producer – Adrian Belew, Alfonso André, Saúl Hernández
Performer – Jaguares

(Just Like) Starting Over
Performer, Producer – The Flaming Lips

God
Drums (Uncredited) – Mick Fleetwood
Performer – Jack’s Mannequin
Producer – Andrew McMahon, Jim Wirt, Robert “Raw” Anderson

Real Love
Performer – Regina Spektor
Producer – Joe Mendelson, Regina Spektor

Art Direction, Design – Kurt Lighthouse
Creative Director (Creative Consultant) – Mathieu Bitton, Candy Tangerine
Executive-Producer – Bill Shipsey, Jeff Ayeroff, Larry Cox
Executive-Producer (Co-executive) – Helen Garrett, Julie Yannatta, Karen Schneider, Robin Raj, Vanessa Moss
Mastered By – Pat Kraus
Producer – Amnesty International USA, Art For Amnesty
Written-By – John Lennon

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Disc 1

Click on the title for lyrics.

Instant Karma! – US

Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead

What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you trying to do
It’s up to you, yeah you

Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darling
Join the human race

How in the world you gonna see
Laughing at fools like me
Who in the hell do you think you are
A super star well, right you are

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Everyone come on

Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognise your brothers
Everyone you meet

Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you’re everywhere
Come and get your share

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on

Yeah, yeah, all right

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun

Written by John Lennon

#9 Dream – R.E.M.

So long ago
Was it in a dream, was it just a dream?
I know, yes I know
Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me

Took a walk down the street
Through the heat whispered trees
I thought I could hear (hear, hear, hear)
Somebody call out my name as it started to rain
Two spirits dancing so strange

Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé
Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé
Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé

Dream, dream away
Magic in the air, was magic in the air?
I believe, yes I believe
More I cannot say, what more can I say?

On a river of sound
Thru the mirror go round, round
I thought I could feel (feel, feel, feel)
Music touching my soul, something warm, sudden cold
The spirit dance was unfolding

Ah! böwakawa poussé, poussé…

Written by John Lennon

Mother (ft. Big Elf) – Christina Aguilera

Mother, you had me, but I never had you
I wanted you, you didn’t want me
So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Father, you left me, but I never left you
I needed you, you didn’t need me
So I, I just got to tell you

Goodbye, goodbye

Children, don’t do what I have done
I couldn’t walk and I tried to run

So I, I just got to tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home
Mama don’t go
Daddy come home

Written by John Lennon

Give Peace A Chance – Aerosmith featuring Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

Two, one two three four

Everybody’s talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism
Ragism, Tagism, this-ism, that-ism
Ism ism ism

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Everybody’s talkin’ ’bout ministers, sinisters
Banisters and canisters, bishops and fishops
Rabbis and pop eyes, bye-bye, bye-bye

All we are saying, is give peace a chance
All we are saying, is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now
Everybody’s talking about, revolution
Evolution, mastication, flagellation
Regulation, integrations, meditations
United Nations, congratulations

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Everybody’s talking about, John and Yoko
Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy smothers
Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper, Derek Taylor
Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna, Hare Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Written by John Lennon

Cold Turkey – Lenny Kravitz

Temperature’s rising
Fever is high
Can’t see no future
Can’t see no sky

My feet are so heavy
So is my head
I wish I was a baby
I wish I was dead

Cold turkey has got me on the run

My body is aching
Goose-pimple bone
Can’t see no body
Leave me alone

My eyes are wide open
Can’t get to sleep
One thing I’m sure of
I’m in at the deep freeze

Cold turkey has got me on the run

Cold turkey has got me on the run

Thirty-six hours
Rolling in pain
Praying to someone
Free me again

Oh I’ll be a good boy
Please make me well
I promise you anything
Get me out of this hell

Cold turkey has got me on the run

Written by John Lennon

Whatever Gets You Thru The Night – Los Lonely Boys

Whatever gets you thru the night ‘salright, ‘salright
It’s your money or life ‘salright, ‘salright
Don’t need a sword to cut through flowers oh no, oh no
Whatever gets you thru your life ‘salright, ‘salright
Do it wrong or do it right ‘salright, ‘salright
Don’t need a watch to waste your time oh no, oh no
Hold me darlin’ come on listen to me
I won’t do you no harm
Trust me darlin’ come on listen to me, listen to me
Come on listen, listen

Whatever gets you to the light ‘salright, ‘salright
Out the blue or out of sight ‘salright, ‘salright
Don’t need a gun to blow your mind oh no, oh no

Written by John Lennon

I’m Losing You – Corinne Bailey Rae

Here in some stranger’s room
Late in the afternoon
What am I doing here at all?
Ain’t no doubt about it
I’m losing you
Somehow the wires have crossed
Communication’s lost
Can’t even get you on the telephone
Just got to shout about it
I’m losing you

Here in the valley of indecision
I don’t know what to do
I feel you slipping away
I feel you slipping away
I’m losing you
I’m losing you

You say you’re not getting enough
But I remind you of all that bad stuff
So what the hell am I supposed to do?
Just put a bandaid on it?
And stop the bleeding now
Stop the bleeding now

I know I hurt you then
But hell that was way back when
Well, do you still have to carry that cross?
Don’t want to hear about it
I’m losing you
I’m losing you

I don’t want to lose you now.
Well, no, no, no.

Long, long lost John

Written by John Lennon

Gimme Some Truth – Jakob Dylan featuring Dhani Harrison

I’m sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight-short sighted-narrow minded hypocritics

All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

Ive had enough of reading things
By neurotic-psychotic-pig headed politicians

All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short haired-yellow bellied son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

I’m sick to death of seeing things
From tight lipped-condescending-mommies little chauvinists

All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

I’ve had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic-ego-centric-paranoiac-prima-donnas
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

Written by John Lennon

Oh My Love – Jackson Browne

Oh my love or the first time in my life
My eyes are wide open
Oh my lover for the first time in my life
My eyes can see

I see the wind, oh I see the trees
Everything is clear in my heart
I see the clouds, oh I see the sky
Everything is clear in our world

Oh my love for the first time in my life
My mind is wide open
Oh my lover for the first time in my life
My mind can feel

I feel sorrow, oh I feel dreams
Everything is clear in my heart
I feel life, oh I feel love

Written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Imagine – Avril Lavigne

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…

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 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

Written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Nobody Told Me – Big & Rich

Everybody’s talking and no one says a word
Everybody’s making love and no one really cares
There’s Nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs
Always something happening and nothing going on
There’s always something cooking and nothing in the pot
They’re starving back in China so finish what you got

Nobody told me there’d be days like these
No one told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed-most peculiar, mama

Everybody’s runnin’ and no one makes a move
Everybody’s a winner and no one seems to lose
There’s a little yellow idol to the north of Katmandu
Everybody’s flying and no one leaves the ground
Everybody’s crying and no one makes a sound
There’s a place for us in movies you just gotta stay around

Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed-most peculiar, mama

Everybody’s smoking no one’s getting high
Everybody’s flying and never touch the sky
There’s UFO’s over New York and I ain’t too surprised

Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Nobody told me there’d be days like these
Strange days indeed-most peculiar, mama

Written by John Lennon

Jealous Guy – Youssou N’Dour

I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I began to lose control

I didn’t mean to hurt you
I’m sorry that I made you cry
I didn’t want to hurt you
I’m just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was shivering inside

I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you were trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I was swallowing my pain

Written by John Lennon

Disc 2

Click on the title for lyrics.

Working Class Hero – Green Day

As soon as you’re born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
Till you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they’ve tortured and scared you for 20 odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can’t really function you’re so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There’s room at the top they’re telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be

Yes, a working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

Written by John Lennon

Power To The People – The Black Eyed Peas

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Say you want a revolution
We better get on right away
Well get you on your feet
And out on the street singing

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

A million workers working for nothing
You better give ’em what they really own
We got to put you down
When we come into town singing

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

I gotta ask you comrades and brothers
How do you treat you own woman back home
She got to be herself
So she can free herself singing

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Now, now, now, now

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on

Written by John Lennon

Imagine – Jack Johnson

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…

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 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

Written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) – Ben Harper

Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster’s gone
He’s on the run and your daddy’s here

Beautiful
Beautiful beautiful
Beautiful Boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It’s getting better and better

Beautiful
Beautiful beautiful
Beautiful Boy
Out on the ocean sailing away
I can hardly wait
To see you come of age
But I guess we’ll both
Just have to be patient
Because it’s a long way to go
A hard row to hoe
Yes it’s a long way to go
But in the meantime

Before you cross the street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you’re busy making other plans

Beautiful
Beautiful beautiful
Beautiful Boy

Darling
Darling darling
Darling Sean

Written by John Lennon

Isolation – Snow Patrol

People say we got it made
Don’t they know we’re so afraid?
Isolation
We’re afraid to be alone
everybody got to have a home
Isolation

Just a boy and a little girl
Trying to change the whole wide world
Isolation
The world is just a little town
Everybody trying to put us down
Isolation

I don’t expect you to understand
After you caused so much pain
But then again you’re not to blame
You’re just a human, a victim of the insane

We’re afraid of everyone
Afraid of the sun
Isolation
The sun will never disappear
But the world may not have many years
Isolation.

Written by John Lennon

Watching The Wheels – Matisyahu

People say I’m crazy doing what I’m doing
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I’m o.k. well they look at me kind of strange
Surely you’re not happy now you no longer play the game
People say I’m lazy dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I’m doing fine watching shadows on the wall
Don’t you miss the big time boy you’re no longer on the ball?

I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

People asking questions lost in confusion
Well tell them there’s no problem, only solutions
Well they shake their heads and look at me as if I’ve lost my mind
I tell them there’s no hurry…
I’m just sitting here doing time

I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Written by John Lennon

Grow Old With Me – The Postal Service

Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
God bless our love
Grow old along with me
Two branches of one tree
Face the setting sun
When the day is done
God bless our love
God bless our love

Spending our lives together
Man and wife together
World without end
World without end

Grow old along with me
Whatever fate decrees
We will see it through
For our love is true
God bless our love
God bless our love

Written by John Lennon

Gimme Some Truth – Jaguares

I’m sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight-short sighted-narrow minded hypocritics

All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

Ive had enough of reading things
By neurotic-psychotic-pig headed politicians

All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short haired-yellow bellied son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

I’m sick to death of seeing things
From tight lipped-condescending-mommies little chauvinists

All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

I’ve had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic-ego-centric-paranoiac-prima-donnas
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

Written by John Lennon

(Just Like) Starting Over – The Flaming Lips

Our Life together is so precious together
We have grown – we have grown
Although our love is still special
Let’s take a chance and fly away somewhere alone

It’s been too long since we took the time
No-one’s to blame, I know time flies so quickly
But when I see you darling
It’s like we both are falling in love again
It’ll be just like starting over – starting over

Everyday we used to make it love
Why can’t we be making love nice and easy
It’s time to spread our wings and fly
Don’t let another day go by my love
It’ll be just like starting over – starting over

Why don’t we take off alone
Take a trip somewhere far, far away
We’ll be together on our own again
Like we used to in the early days
Well, well, well darling
Repeat 1 & 2

Written by John Lennon

God – Jack’s Mannequin featuring Mick Fleetwood

God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I’ll say it again
God is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain
I don’t believe in Magic
I don’t believe in I-Ching
I don’t believe in Bible
I don’t believe in Tarot
I don’t believe in Hitler
I don’t believe in Jesus
I don’t believe in Kennedy
I don’t believe in Buddha
I don’t believe in Mantra
I don’t believe in Gita
I don’t believe in Yoga
I don’t believe in Kings
I don’t believe in Elvis
I don’t believe in Zimmerman
I don’t believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that’s reality

The dream is over
What can I say?
The dream is over
Yesterday
I was the dreamweaver
But now I’m reborn
I was the Walrus
But now I’m John
And so dear friends
You just have to carry on
The dream is over

Written by John Lennon

Real Love – Regina Spektor

All my little plans and schemes
Gone like some forgotten dream
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

Just like little girls and boys
Playing with their little toys
Seems like all we really were doing
Was waiting for love

No need to be alone
No need to be alone

It’s real love
It’s real,
Yes it’s real love
It’s real

From this moment on I know
Exactly where my life will go
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for love

Thought I’d been in love before,
But in my heart I wanted more
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

No need to be afraid
No need to be afraid

It’s real love
Yes it’s real,
Yes it’s real love
It’s real

Written by John Lennon

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