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, look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, ooh


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    Now, basically everyone's problem is that they are not treating this song like a poem, which means that its interpretation is being altered. One must understand that the bealtes were as much poets as shakespeare was, and so their songs must be treated like poems. According to this new rule, one thing people must be aware of is that the poet is not necessarily the one speaking in the poem, this is the persona. Knowing this, it is wrong to assume that George is the one singing this song. Another reason why george is not singing this song is due to the intentional fallacy. Anyways, since george is not singing the song, it can only be assumed that instead a mythical dragon is singing as this is the persona of the poem. Now, it must be understood that dragons are a very power race with incredible powers. And of course, with great powers comes great responsibily, and the dragons were not responsible enough to handle their powers and so great wars were fought. Eventually some wise and noble dragons realized they were destroying the earth, and so conspired a plan to despose of the terrible dragons and retreat into space were they would not become violent and harm the beautiful earth god. As they left, they surrended the earth to man, who they assumed would be able to take better care of the earth. Over time of course, man has become violent and has slowly to become more powerful with nuclear weapons and such, and so, the dragon, there is only one know and he is old and has a long white beard like a wizard, because of course he is a wizard like gandalf, anyways, this dragon is looking down on man, who the dragons gave the earth to, and is worried becuase man is becoming to powerful and may not be able to handle that responsibility. While my guitar gently weeps is basically the wise wizard dragons means of telling us to be careful with our power and not to be greedy or violent. If you look at specific lyrics you can see this, "from all our mistakes we must surely be learning," he wants humans to learn and not be like the dragons, he uses the pronoun we like the way a young kindergarten teacher would use the pronoun we to connect her to her class, as in "we shall go outside today." other lines equally reflect the dragons tone, worried brows and dissappointed stares, if people want more evidence, i would be glad to explain every line by the dragons emotions, just let me know.

    MatthewArnold72on March 27, 2009   Link

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