| The Beatles – The Inner Light Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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by the way! the "thing that sounds like an organ" is a harmonium, the string is a hammered dulcimer called a santur, and the wailing sound is from a shehnai (oboe, think snake-charmer) |
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| The Beatles – The Inner Light Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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first, there's a line missing, what's in the parentheses should be replaced with "Do all without doing" next, prepare yourselves, this is fascinating: So apparently, George and John were doing a tv interview that focused on meditation and their experiences in India. A Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge saw it and was impressed by their sincerity and knowledge of Indian philosophy, and wrote George a letter. He suggested that George set lyrics to his (the scholar's) rendering of some verses of the Tao Te Ching (you know... the Chinese book of Taoism). These were the verses: -------------- Without going out of my door I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I can know the ways of heaven. For the farther one travels, The less one knows. The sage therefore Arrives without travelling, Sees all without looking, Does all without doing. -Lao Tzu -------------- ...! |
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| Iron & Wine – Free Until They Cut Me Down Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Well, it is an "interpretation"... but I assumed he was caught sleeping with a woman, probably underaged. Or maybe just unmarried, an old-fashioned idea that would fit with the old-fashioned punishment of hanging. I'd like to think they loved each other and chose to have sex even in the face of a strict society, but that's unfounded. Anyway, as the song says, he was always a free spirit, and does not regret what he did. He chose his fate; might even be considered a martyr. | |
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