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 As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging Still my guitar gently weeps
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 As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging Still my guitar gently weeps
George Harrison compôs a música como um exercício de aleatoriedade inspirado pelo I Ching chinês, expressando sua decepção com o potencial não realizado de amor universal no mundo.
A faixa atua como um comentário sobre a desarmonia interna do Beatles após o retorno do grupo da Índia no início de 1968, quando estudavam Meditação Transcendental.
Devido à apatia inicial dos demás Beatles em relação à composição, Harrison levou seu amigo Eric Clapton para gravar a guitarra principal, embora Clapton não tenha recebido crédito formal no disco.
A versão completa da banda foi gravada em setembro de 1968, substituindo um arranjo musical inicial baseado no folk por uma produção no estilo do rock pesado.
A Rolling Stone elegeu a canção na 135ª posição na lista das "500 Maiores Músicas de Todos os Tempos" e na sétima posição das "100 Maiores Músicas de Guitarra de Todos os Tempos".
A performance da guitarra de Eric Clapton foi classificada em 42º lugar na lista de 2008 da Guitar World das "100 Maiores Solo de Guitarra de Todos os Tempos".
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