Imagining "Imagine" : John Lennon's gibberish-filled anthem.

Daily Standard ^ | Joel Engel

[firebrand]

This is no doubt the song he was murdered over. Imagine no religion? Nothing to kill or die for? In your dreams, John.

Amazing what beauty a simple tune, sung by a talented musician with a good voice, to the accompaniment of a few chords on a well-tuned concert grand, can achieve. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" was the same basic formula but somehow managed to avoid being communist propaganda.

[Maceman]

Imagine no posessions.

It's easy if you have $200 million.

[azhenfud]

"....imagine the consequences of such a world."

Imagine, if you can, everyone with the same dresscode, everyone with the same amount of wealth, everyone with the same degree of education, everyone with the same political persuasion, everyone with the same athiestic view of life.

Imagine Communism.

[SerpentDove]

>>LOL! Born Free.... What ever happened to Andy Williams? Is he still alive?<<

Last I heard, he had his own show in Branson, Missouri. But that was ten years ago or so, so who knows?

[.cnI redruM]

Imagine there's no brain cells
Easy if you try
Just sit around your apartment
And get massively high

Imagine living off royalties
and slacking every day OOH!

Imagine there's no Yoko
Send that skank back to Japan
Make her work in clothes factory
And thwart her gold-digging plan

Imagine Paul McCartney
laughing at Lennon now OOH!

CHORUS
You may say John is brain-dead
and your not the only one
He hoped one day you'd join him
until YOUR stash was done

Imagine there's free health care
For every junkie in the USA
Imagine public methadone
and the taxes you'd pay

Imagine all the workers
taxed to buy free drugs OOH!!

Imagine there's no Army
Just a Dept of Peace
and no jails or policemen
the buggery would never cease

Imagine our whole country
with the GDP of Sudan OOH!!

Chorus.

[ZULU]

"TODAY MARKS the 23rd anniversary of John Lennon's murder by a deranged fan.."
I think ALL Beetles fans are a bit deranged.

[BSunday]

Imagine there's no countries . . . Nothing to kill or die for / No religion too / Imagine all the people / living life in peace

This would take an exremely iron fisted totalitarian state who's power and reach would be so great that there would be no hope of ever being freed from it, outside of death. Imagine Hilter or Hussein as King of the World.

[LikeLight]

Amazing to see all these FReepers coming out of the woodwork to endorse godless communism . . . strange . . .

[firebrand]

The flag is at half-mast at Lincoln Center today. Is that for John?

[HamiltonJay]

I'll never forget walking through "Strawberry Fields" our our way to the Zoo one sunny saturday morning in New Yorks Central Park, my 6 year old son asked me who John Lennon was.... the inlaid mosaic was covered in flower petals and the usual suspects mulled around and sat on the benches as we walked through....

And I calmly replied, "He was just a nutball leftist musician".... man if looks could have killed I would have been gunned down stone cold by those mulling around.

Certainly a bit tactless of me, without a doubt, but that's what he was.

[Paved Paradise]

Love It. As described by another poster, insipid is a rather accurate description.

[Jim Cane]

Unfortunately, the arguments against Lennon's insipidy were a series of indsipid wet-blanketisms, not unlike when nerdlings sit behind you in the movie theater, babbling away about how the dragons of the Nazgul can't REALLY fly because they lack a proper avian sternum.

It's a frickin' song.

[A Navy Vet]

Other than the rest of his tripe, I could certainly do without billions of people claiming their organized religion is the one God prefers, and the countless lives and misery that's caused throughout the past and present. Disclaimer: I'm a deist.

[ZULU]

Darned if I know. I wouldn't go anywhere near the Rotten Apple.

Considering the idiot they have for a mayor, it wouldn't surprise me. (Was Lennon even an American Citizen??)

[DannyTN]

"Imagine there's no heaven . . . No hell below us . . . Imagine all the people living for today ...No religion too "

Imagine all the people....Living life in vain...
You may think I'm a dreamer...No I think that you're insane.

[Jim Cane]

P.S. "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is highly irresponsible.

[17th Miss Regt]

I did not say that. Only that in the absence of restraints imposed by religion and the rule of law, the world would be a lot worse off.

[BSunday]

And I calmly replied, "He was just a nutball leftist musician".... man if looks could have killed

Buwhahahahah...You are awesome!! (and you owe me a new keyboard)

[Hillary's Folly]

How many killers and tyrants have made history doing what they did in the name of religion?

You are dead on in this statement, and while I do not know you, judging from your name and tagline, I'm guessing you're dealing with some "religion" issues, perhaps as a result of being too involved in one at a previous time in your life. I've traveled down that road myself. It took me some time not to hold all religion and exercize thereof in contempt simply because my narrow experience with it was negative. But I've since come to understand that nothing on this earth is all good or all bad (except, maybe, for the Clintons).

[bobsatwork]

Yes, it's gibberish, but it's a nice, gentle tune, ..... Lennon had a real talent for gibberish as lyrics.. I agree completely. Lennon was a very talented lyricist (one of the very best). Is Imagine empty socialist-utopia drivel? Yes. Does it piss me off? No. It's a SONG for cripe sake.