Pop Song 565 'While my guitar gently weeps' The Beatles 1968

Pop Song 565 'While my guitar gently weeps' The Beatles 1968Show more

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The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for universal love, which he refers to as "the love there that's sleeping".

The song also serves as a comment on the disharmony within the Beatles after their return from studying transcendental meditation in India in early 1968. This lack of camaraderie was reflected in the band's initial apathy towards the composition, which Harrison countered by inviting his friend and occasional collaborator, Eric Clapton, to contribute to the recording. Clapton overdubbed a lead guitar part, although he was not formally credited for his contribution

Lyrics
In his lyrics to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Harrison revisits the theme of universal love and the philosophical concerns that were evident in his overtly Indian-influenced compositions, particularly "Within You Without You".[34] The song is a lament for how a universal love for humankind is latent in all individuals yet remains unrealised. In the description of theologian Dale Allison, the song "conveys spiritual angst and an urgent religious point of view without being explicitly theological".[36] Harrison sings of surveying "you all" and seeing "the love there that's sleeping".[37] Musicologist Walter Everett comments that the change from the minor-mode verse to the parallel major might express hope that "unrealized potential" described in the lyrics is to be "fulfilled", but the continued minor triads "seem to express a strong dismay that love is not to be unfolded".[33] During the bridges, Harrison adopts a repetitive rhyming scheme in the style of Bob Dylan[38] to convey how humankind has become distracted from its ability to manifest this love.[37] He sings of people that have been "inverted" and "perverted" from their natural perspective