Tuesday, July 25, 2006

This day in music history.

July 25, 1966, Eric Clapton sits in with the Beatles and plays lead guitar for George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". The song would appear on the album "The Beatles" which is better known as "The White Album". A clue to the infamous Paul is dead conspiracy is in the end of the song when Harrison starts crying out "Paul, oh Paul, oh Paul." George said "inspiration for the song arrived from reading the I Ching, it seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else, as opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental."
While 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 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...