Just heard it on the radio. I don't know why so many people like this song, and go on and on about its sentiments. But there is no tune to speak of, and the lyrics are shite.
^"Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky"^
Well I don't need to imagine that. There's no evidence that there's a heaven above us and a hell lurking under our feet, as far as I'm concerned. Even a lot of Christians don't believe heaven and hell are literally and physically above and below us.
"Imagine all the people living for today"
So nobody bothers to work, save, make plans for the future, provisions for old age, build anything over the long term, even preserve food for the winter. Just get up and do whatever you fancy for the day? 
"^Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace^"
OK, so if we're going to abolish countries, what are we going to replace them with. There needs to be some sort of political and administrative framework, otherwise we'll live in total anarchy with no taxes, no education, no welfare state, no police - a bit like that telly programme Survivors, where they're all running round the country brandishing guns and nicking stuff off each other. Religion, I know, has been "done to death" on MN. Personally I think everyone can believe what they like, and religion can be a comfort to many, as long as it doesn't impact on others. Anyway, how can you ban religion? You can't change the way people think. It's a bit 1984.
Yes, I can see that national identity and religions can cause wars, but abolishing them is not practical.
"^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^"
So how are we going to manage this no possessions business? Does that mean that anyone can just help themselves to anything they fancy. Someone can just help themselves to food I've grown in my garden, rip the clothes off my back and wear them because they don't "belong" to me or just decide to move into my house because they don't fancy their own place any more. If there are no rights of possession then everyone might end up squabbling over stuff and then we'll all go hungry.
Hopefully if he's talking about a "brotherhood of man", most of this won't apply to women.
"^You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one^"
Really? There are other people who actually think this.
AIBU?
to think the song Imagine is not only a dreadful dirge, but is also complete and unworkable twaddle
MardyBra · 13/11/2012 16:06
With you LRD on "and there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas" - that's always got me too, because a pretty sprinkling of snow would really cheer you up in a famine
Have to say though I have always liked Imagine - because it is quite radical to many people to think of throwing out religion and that perhaps we wouldn't be any worse off without it. So YABU 
But I don't think I've thought it all through as thoroughly as you MardyBra ......
Mind him and yoko were out their nuts for most of the 70s and 80s probably made sense to him
over rated over milked twaddle if you ask me cant stand anything Beatley and I hate how paul mcartney is wheeled out as some sort of god and his bloody hey frigging bastard jude
Yo listen up, here's a story About a little guy that lives in a blue world And all day and all night And everything he sees Is just blue like him Inside and outside
Blue his house With a blue little window And a blue corvette And everything is blue for him And his self And everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen
I'm blue, da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die [repeat]
I have a blue house with a blue window Blue is the color of all that I wear Blue are the streets and all the trees are too I have a girlfriend and she is so blue
Blue are the people here that walk around Blue like my corvette, it's standing outside Blue are the words I say and what I think Blue are the feelings that live inside me
I'm blue, da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die [repeat]
It's better then those lyrics! Hope every one doesn't get it stuck in their heads
Inside and outside
Blue his house With a blue little window And a blue corvette And everything is blue for him And his self And everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen...
I'm blue, da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die Da ba de, da ba die [repeat]
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