In Cadiz I got to know a lot of people living / working on the street. I was both a busker and a medical student, and I could clearly feel the difference in how people looked at me being one or the other. Talking about that being so unfair, someone once said: “yeah, we should listen to John Lennon in the end…” His song “imagine”, referred to as “a song about a brotherhood of men”, is also one of the few songs that I played in the street almost every time I got out (daily), and still I never got tired of it.
Lyrics (Eng)
One step up and one step down we do
A whistling girl paints flowers on the wall
If pretty things ain’t coming back to you
We’ll only have to wait till angels fall
As long as no one talks to me at all
One step up and one step down we go
A whistling boy looks up and smiles to me
Up and down and back to what we know
We’re not getting anywhere you see
As long as no one talks to me at all
No one at all. No one at all
As long as no one talks to me
One step up and one step down again
A woman whistles all we have to know
A song about a brotherhood of men
People stopped to listen long ago
Now everybody leaves us all alone
All alone. All alone.
