|
Post by davissmith on Oct 26, 2008 17:53:23 GMT
Well, I love this song, but I cant figure out what it means.
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 you 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
What is it an elegy to? What is the metaphor in the last two lines of the first stanza - "I don't know how someone controlled you." "They bought and sold you." What is the verbal irony in stanza 2?
Thanks.
|
|
|
Post by briank on Oct 31, 2008 9:13:59 GMT
Sounds like you are working on a class assignment? To analyze a song...
Do you get the sense of what THE key line is - and what that could mean? I think it's a message unrelated to most songs, a bit more metaphysical.
|
|
|
Post by mrmustard on Nov 30, 2008 20:11:52 GMT
Hi there,
according to George's book I Me Mine, he had been reading 'I Ching - Book Of Changes'. The concept of the book is that everything is relative to everything else as opposed to the western view which is that things are merely coincidental.
Anyway, this concept went round his head and whilst in his parents house he decided to write a song based upon the first thing he saw upon opening a book as it would be relative to that moment at that time. He picked up a book at random and the first thing he read was 'Gently Weeps'.
I suppose it makes sense to an extent but you can't apply it to the whole song. I suspect it's a combination of this concept, his growing disillusionment with the Beatles and just putting some interesting words together (alerted, perverted, diverted etc)
|
|
|
Post by briank on Jan 5, 2009 22:19:47 GMT
Keep in mind that the Beatles were doing things VERY unusually in these years 67-68. There is basically NO clear message - in Gently Weeps, Walrus, Happiness is a Warm Gun etc. Some IDEAS are there, but they were "writing songs" which does not always mean there is a message...
|
|
|
Post by revolverdundee on Oct 22, 2009 10:21:33 GMT
It's a shame the last verse never made the album version. I think it's the best!
"I look from the wings at the play you are staging, While my guitar gently weeps, While i'm sitting here, doing nothign but ageing, While my guitar gently weeps"
|
|
|
Post by walrusgumboot on Oct 23, 2009 18:17:22 GMT
In order to fascinate, tantalise , puzzle and entertain, songs/poetry don't necessarily have to "mean" anything.
Pretentiously, perhaps, I always thought that it was about John and Yoko....but who knows ?
Walrus
|
|