The song "Imagine" is one of Siavash Ghomayshi's masterpieces, and one of the old works of this singer. I remember we knew this song as "Whale Suicide".
And the song belonged to the time when we first heard the news of the mass suicide of whales and the astonishment and inability of scientists and officials from this bitter reality.
Why whales commit suicide and why they come to shore en masse and die. We, humans, commit suicide a lot. Sometimes we destroy ourselves individually and sometimes collectively.
We, who consider ourselves the best of creatures, do a lot of foolish things and cause destruction, then we expect the whales not to prefer death to life with the ruined world we have created for them. I remember at that time "whale suicide" seemed like an ominous sign. An unsettling sign of the world's annihilation... A sign of gradual disorder, that is still going on.
Official Video
Mp3 With English Subtitle
Song: Tasavor Kon (Imagine)
Singer: Siavash Ghomayshi
Poetry: Yaghma Golroei
Lyrics:
Imagine! even it is hard to imagine!
A world where all humans living blissfully and joyous!
A world that isn’t based on money, race, and power
And the response for the call to unite isn’t a riot-police
And kids no more lose their foot in the land mine!
Everyone is free, everyone is painless
And you won’t read in the newspaper
That the whales have committed suicide
Imagine a world without hatred and gunpowder
Without oppressions, without fear, and coffin
Imagine a world full of smiles and freedom
Full of flowers and kisses, full of prosperity all over!
Imagine if even it is itself a crime to imagine such things!
Even if when you express it, they fill your throat with bullets
Imagine a world where the prison is a myth
All world wars, being subject to a ceasefire
No one is the Master of the world!
People are equal,
And they have an equal share of every grain of wheat
A Universe without borders that homeland means the whole world
Imagine!
Imagine you can make this dream come true!
