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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Album: The White Album, 1968
Lead vocalist: George




Lyrics ▶︎

I look at you all
See the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor
And I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you
I look at the world
And I notice, it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake
We must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you
I look from the wings
At the play you are staging
While my guitar gently weeps
'Cause I'm sitting here
Doing nothing but aging
Still my guitar gently weeps
Dub the mic on the piano and quite low this
Just keep it in my maracas, you know
You know, those old pianos
Okay, we're on
Mouth

I think it’s fair to say George had well-and-truly matched John and Paul’s songwriting genius at by point. This is a song that never fails to make me feel emotional. I love the sentiment that is reflected through both the lyrics and the music. And Eric Clapton’s guitar solo is sublime. The guitar isn’t merely weeping, it’s sobbing its heart out. The moans at the end of the song are just perfect, also. This really is a feat of songwriting genius. And that, my friends, is a fact