The Beatles: "While my Guitar Gently Weeps"

("without music, life would be an error"
- friedrich nietzsche:  "the twilight of the idols")


"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 need 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 at you all see the love there that's sleeping 
While my guitar gently weeps 
I look at you all 
Still my guitar gently weeps 

( I look from the wings at the play you are staging
While my guitar gently weeps
As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging
Still my guitar gently weeps ) " 





(i think this is my favourite song by the beatles, interestingly enough from harrison and with a preposterous 3rd verse in the lyrics, this is i think the original take, with harrison alone, the famous one is with more musicians)

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