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 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

This was the text that I chose for my close reading.

First of all, I would like to apologize to Mr. Kunkle, you were right, George Harrison sang it, I was very wrong and am quite ashamed.

Also, if you haven't heard the song you should! Go to YouTube, I don't know how to be cool and add a hyperlink like some people, and I apologize. I also recommend highly that you hear the new version from the movie Across the Universe, it's very amazing.

So what the heck does this song mean? I'm sure if our generation weren't so shallow when it came to song lyrics these days we'd be able to pick it apart and come up with all sorts of creative ideas about it...but that's difficult now-a-days.

My interpretation of The Beatles' words:

George Harrison's guitar is weeping, quite figuratively. He finds himself consumed with such mundane tasks as sweeping the floor as mentioned above in the lyrics. Unfortunately, he's constantly having to do other things rather than play his guitar, which is his favorite thing to do.

This seems like an allegory for society to me! That men are constantly putting their passions and ambitions aside to find security in a mediocre, depressing job.

George Harrison is observing the world around him and "I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping" notices so much potential that's "sleeping" because people are settling for promise of security.

He doesn't understand why more people don't express themselves as freely as they'd like to when he says, "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" as if people are only tools to their society. Being controlled and used, and as he notices this his guitar continues to weep. Maybe George Harrison is weeping too.