The Long and Winding Road Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bananamama 

Cover art for The Long and Winding Road lyrics by Beatles, The

Yes, the song appears to be about the Beatles & many things that was going on in the Beatles life at the time must have inspired it.. I cant disagree BUT there is also a much deeper level of understanding in this song.. it is about one's relationship to GOD

I used to listen to it, it made me emotional & i thought it was a love song ( it matched how I felt about frustrating romances) & other times i thought it is a song about some unattainable goal that has a long & winding road to reach it 9it matched how i felt about my career that never got any better or never moved any further)

BUT then ONE DAY it hit me when i was having one of those spiritual ups & downs.. I was literally & desperately crying out to God for help & this song began to play at the same time & oh my God... this was it.. i got what it is all about

IT IS ABOUT THE LONG & WINING ROAD TO GOD & BACK FROM GOD THROUGHOUT ALL OF ETERNITY... this road has no beginning & has no end.. it always is.... You are one with God but then you separate (this separation is only an illusion) when you are born into a new body & then you return to God when you die & become one again... & this keeps going on & going on for eternity.....

when you cry out & suffer is when are under the illusion that you are separate from God & that you are on an endless & tiring road to God but the peace comes in when you realize that in ultimate reality you are never separate from God & you are never on a road to God becuase you are with GOD always & all ways