While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Harrison
I look at the floor, and I see it needs sleeping, still my guitar gently weeps...
It would have been completely criminal on my part to write a list of my favorite Beatles songs and not include a single Harrison tune. Featuring absolutely stellar guitar work from George's friend Eric Clapton, the haunting melody and lyrics pierce straight through. To me, this is Harrison's "Across the Universe" - his way of watching everything around him change as the band gradually fell to pieces, and using his music as an outlet.
The result is a powerful piece with beautiful chemistry between George's desperate vocal stylings and Clapton's masterful "weeping" lead guitar. Inspiration for the song came to Harrison when reading the I Ching, which, as he put it, "seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else...opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental." Taking this idea of relativism to his parents' home in northern England, Harrison committed to write a song based on the first words he saw upon opening a random book. Those words were "gently weeps", and he immediately began the song.
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