[Hillary's Folly]

There are plenty of Lennon's songs I like, but I've always found this one to be especially insipid.

[jackbill]

I prefer the parody that Rush plays:

Imagine there'r no liberals.

[kjam22]

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man /

Yeah... the word that comes to mind is hypocrit.

[LikeLight]

Amen . . . this song has been offensive to me for many years, but I guess people don't really think about it because it sounds "nice" . . . or they really believe in the garbage Lennon embraces in these lyrics . . .

[I still care]

I never could understand the appeal of this song. When it came out, I was a child, and even then I still knew it was a nightmare.

Supposedly it was voted the song of the millenium in Britian. Now that is frightening.

[Walkingfeather]

IMAGINE THERE'S NO LENNON..... Ah... thats better.

[Porterville]

It's not a bad song. In fact it is quite good. How pissed off do you have to be to hate "Imagine" ??? Seriously, do you have to be a shut in with 20 cats and a penchant for self mutilation??

[Cincinatus]

Yes, it's gibberish, but it's a nice, gentle tune, so nobody really pays much attention to the words, aside from the few, unreconstructed hippies that are still around.

Lennon had a real talent for gibberish as lyrics -- witness: I am the Walrus.

[SerpentDove]

Yep.

One of a slew of corny idealistic songs of the era, like "Born Free" or "The Impossible Dream."

[shhrubbery!]

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man / Imagine all the people, sharing all the world. . . . Let's begin implementing the third stanza's message by splitting up the royalties to this copyrighted song.

That, and the paragraph that follows, are brilliant and should be required reading for all Kumbaya singing liberals.

Imagine...a world without lame-brain libs.

[stuartcr]

Common sense does not suggest that the world would produce more hitlers than Mother Theresas.

[Freedom4US]

Socialist dirge, never could stand it. While he may have meant well, it's disconcerting that such an otherwise intelligent man could go off his rocker. Poster child for the hazards of dangerous drugs. A fellow who never worked a day in his life, (no pun intended) and who squandered millions, scolding us for trying to scratch out a decent life.

[steveo]

I have always thought
in the back of my mind
cheese and onions

I have always thought
that the world was unkind
cheese and onions

Do I have to spell it out?
C-H-E-E-S-E-A-N-D-O-N-I-O-N-S
Oh, no

[aardvark1]

This song is destined to become the UN anthem.

[Trampled by Lambs]

Yeah, the song is a little sappy but I like it. He's asking you to imagine these things not necessarily live them. Utopian, yes but a world "living life in peace" is not such a bad thing to imagine, realistic or no. Thats what imagining is all about, eh?

[PaulJ]

Yikes! I hope this crank never hears Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds!

[azhenfud]

Strange what a drug-intoxicated mind can "imagine".

"Imagine there's no nothing. Wonder if you can."

[Victor]

John Lennon.....Vladimir Lenin.

John was simply born out of time and place. Bet ol' Vlad could have used him to write parade songs and such.

[Stone Mountain]

Geez, he's just asking people to imagine a different kind of world. Not to live it, not to change things, just to imagine. The author needs to lighten up...

[international american]

I "Imagine" he was stoned out of his mind when he wrote this:)