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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the Beatles from their 1968 double album, The Beatles. It was composed by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, and was created as an exercise in randomness that drew inspiration from the Chinese I Ching text.

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Harrison's disappointment regarding humanity's failure to realize its capacity for universal love.