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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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George Harrison composed this track for the Beatles' 1968 self-titled double album. The songwriter created it as an experimental exercise based on principles of randomness derived from the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination text. The song appears on one of the band's most significant releases from their later period.

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The song expresses Harrison's disappointment regarding humanity's failure to realize its capacity for universal love and connection.