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“Crippled Inside” is a song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine. The song combines the bleak lyrical content of Lennon’s prior solo recording, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, with the more upbeat musical arrangements typical to the rest of Imagine. Lennon would later express his displeasure with the more commercial sound of the album, even going so far as to say that the title track was “an anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic song, but because it’s sugar-coated, it’s accepted.“ The song is also noticeably influenced by country music, becoming Lennon’s own spin on country rock, which he dabbled in both as a Beatle and later in his solo career. Read on...