I was thinking of putting the quote from "Revolution" up...Speaking of Lennon, a conservative talk host in Boston was pointing out how "Imagine" sounds like a plea for one world government, and so on (imagine no countries...imagine no religion, I wonder if you can...imagine no possessions). Of course I remember one of the tongue-in-cheek "Letters _From_
The Editors" in National Lampoon that went like this:
Dear Sirs:
Imagine no possessions. What a terrible, terrible thought.
Yoko Ono
New York City
:)
"Sounds like"? What else would it be?
Lennon himself admitted that he was taking a new strategy with "Imagine". Rather than being loud and in-your-face revolutionary with his music, he'd "sugar-coat" it instead. It seemed rather effective.
I read the lyrics to that song before ever having heard it. It reads a little like a leftist protest march (a la "Give Peace a Chance").
LOL! I love that! I'm quite sure she'd feel just that way.
I am one of those musically limited people who actually listen to all the words, Imagine is, awfully, a great paen to all the oversimplified ideas the left holds dear. I hate it, but Revolution and Tax Man (RIP George Harrison) even the score.