Hear Me Lord - George Harrison
I won’t lie. I’m an extreme iPod shuffler. Unless I have a specific album that I want to pay attention to or I’m catching up on podcasts, my iPod is pretty much always on shuffle. I do it because I like to think it’s a way for the music gods to speak to me in case they need to warn me or comfort me or slap some sense into me.
This George Harrison one’s been coming up a lot. I have my favourite tracks on All Things Must Pass (“Wah-Wah”, anyone?) but this one is working its way up. It’s so full of longing and sadness and remorse, which would normally be reserved for a lover, but this song’s all about God being everywhere. Heavy stuff.
This ‘ooooooh ooooh”-ing in this song reminds me so much of a Halloween song we used to sing in elementary about a woman finding a skeleton in her closet. The only thing I can remember are the ooooh’s, but I remember singing it while walking through the cemetary by my house with my mom. Either that’s true, or it’s my mind’s way of making the song seem scarier in my head. Do you ever feel like your memories aren’t true?
