Uploaded by TheBeatleMirko on Oct 9, 2011
"Borrowed Time" is the title of a song from John Lennon and Yoko Ono's last album, Milk and Honey. While the single failed to chart in the United States, it charted at #32 in the UK Singles Chart.
The song was inspired during Lennon's 1980 sailing holiday from Newport Rhode Island to Bermuda. During the journey Lennon's yacht encountered a prolonged severe storm resulting in most of the crew eventually succumbing to profound fatigue and seasickness, Lennon (free of seasickness) was eventually forced to take the yacht's wheel alone for many hours. Lennon found this terrifying but invigorating with the effect of both renewing his confidence and making him contemplate the fragility of life (Lennon claimed his recovery from heroin addiction some years earlier had rendered him immune to seasickness). Once he arrived in Bermuda Lennon heard the line 'living on borrowed time' from Bob Marley's "Hallelujah Time" and was inspired by his recent experience to write the lyrics around that theme, Marley was also the inspiration for the reggae feel of the music. Lennon commented that living on borrowed time was exactly what he was doing but then said "come to think of it, what we all are doing, even though most of us don't like to face it" (Seaman, 1991, p159). The B-side features Ono's song "Your Hands" from the same album.
The song was covered by O.A.R. for Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, Amnesty International's campaign to alleviate the crisis in Darfur.
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Какой он милый,талантливый и интересный человек, когда его включаю мне на душе светлей.Отличный клип!
krevetka20 2 weeks ago
Beautiful bro! Thx
peacemanken 4 months ago
Happy Birthday John. I love this song.
johnnySlidell 4 months ago
fantastic..
mac3079b 4 months ago
Happy Birthday John!
FRE1991DDIE 4 months ago
very nice done ...thank you
antistatica 4 months ago