Spiritual
Lyrics exploring spiritual, religious, or transcendent themes and experiences
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Songs(19)
The Word
Love-as-truth precursor to All You Need Is Love
Rain
Eastern-flavored detachment from circumstance
Tomorrow Never Knows
Tibetan Book of the Dead via Leary
I Want to Tell You
Mind/self split echoes Harrison's Hindu reading
Within You Without You
The Fool on the Hill
Sage figure with cosmic awareness
The Inner Light
Taoist inward knowing
Yer Blues
Universe, soul
Dear Prudence
Meditation-retreat context; 'part of everything'
Blackbird
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Love lying dormant in humanity
Long, Long, Long
Widely read as address to God/Krishna
Mother Nature's Son
Inspired by Maharishi lecture on nature
It's All Too Much
Cosmic love and oneness
Because
Meditative awe at the natural world
Across the Universe (Wildlife version)
Mantra to Maharishi's guru
Let It Be
Comfort in faith and acceptance
Across the Universe
Transcendence, cosmic unity
I Me Mine
Hindu/Vedantic ego doctrine
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