re: #88 Barefoot Grin

It’s a good performance of a song I really don’t like. A person whom CNN called Ukraine’s biggest rock star this morning said, “I have mixed feelings. I wouldn’t have been a musician without The Beatles, and I appreciated Julian and other musicians raising money and awareness for us, but it says ‘imagine there’s no nations’ and I don’t share that as a path to some kind of utopia. We are fighting for our nation.” That kind of utopian vision is what has always kept me from fully liking the song. And I love John Lennon and The Beatles very dearly.

I consider it a secular hymn rather than a song to take literally. It is a spiritual instead and best viewed that way.