"Imagine" was my class song although I didn't vote for it. The ballot allowed a write-in so I wrote in Iggy's "No Fun" which turned out to have garnered more votes as a write-in than some of the songs on the ballot.

The problem for me is that "Imagine" is not pretentious crap. But it is simply not a song directed at me. To Lennon's credit he wasn't preaching to the converted. "Imagine there's no heaven" is meaningless to me because I don't have to imagine it, it's how I see it. So who is he talking to? Those that believe (and they're the ones who usually proclaim the song pretentious crap and that makes me laugh). He's not preaching to me. He's preaching to you.