In case you missed NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, then you missed Cee Lo Green singing a rendition of John Lennon‘s “Imagine.” Normally, the song goes like this:

Imagine there’s no countries

It isn’t hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

But this is how Cee Lo sang it:

Imagine there’s no countries

It isn’t hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And all religion’s true

You can see the video here (at the 0:58 mark):

I wish I knew how to respond…

If only there was a song that perfectly captured how I’m feeling right now…

Oh. Right.

Incidentally, David Archuleta left those lyrics out entirely when he sang the song on American Idol back in 2008.

***Update***: Cee Lo is already doing damage control on Twitter:

Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that’s all

Says the same guy who sang “Imagine no possessions” while wearing a fur coat and sporting gaudy gold jewelry…

(Thanks to Kyle for the link)



