While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Regina Spektor / The Beatles)

Regina Spektor made this fantastic cover of My Guitar Gently Weeps for the Original Soundtrack of Kubo And The Two Strings (2016). The song is a perfect fit for the end credits of this animated film about a young boy who tells stories by magically manipulating origami that moves under music played from Kubo's shamisen (a Japanese, three-stringed musical instrument).


The original song was composed by George Harrison in 1968, and included in The Beatles' White Album (the album's actual name is The Beatles).



Lyrics

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 how 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 I see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps