George Harrison – What Is Life

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  General Comment:Jeez, I thought it just meant, "I love you, babe." Anyway, it's a great song. I love the bouncing beat, the bashing tambourine, the flouncy horn riffs. It's one of those songs you could hear only once and then still be humming it fifty years later--or, like me, play it fifty times straight because you just can't help getting caught in the sheer fun of it.

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  General Comment:That's nice that you're all relating this song to Jesus Christ and Christianity. But George Harrison was a hardcore Hare Krishna.

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    He liked the free meals and music on Fridays:)

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  Song Meaning:"I always thought that the 3rd line said (But it's my love,that you feel)
  But he needed to make it rhym with (Succeed)
  And I always thought it sounded like he was say succeal,
  and i didn't know what succeal meant or if it's even a word
  But I still believe he say I love my Lord and everyone who loves him loves me.
  
  

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  General Comment:RayMan and Digi-G couldn't be more wrong. Get real, it's just a love song. George's spiritual thinking was light years beyond the intolerant and unsatisfying dogma presented by the triad of Abrahamic faiths. His spirituality was in line with and attuned to the Hindu. Note that after cremation, his ashes were distributed in the Ganges River. There are so many facts that go against RayMan and Digi-G co-opting George into the abhorrent Jesus thing, that it staggers my own imagination that anyone would be so foolish and arrogant as to entertain the quaint but false notion that George was thinking of Jesus when he wrote the lyrics to this pop song. Additionally, note that George willed his estate Bhaktivedanta Manor located in Letchmore Heath a beautiful English village to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Anyone truly interested in George's spirituality can find much on the Internet without defaulting into a Christian mythology for his life's work and belief in Hinduism.

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    I always thought that the 3rd line said (But it's my love,that you feel)
    But he needed to make it rhym with (Succeed)
    And I always thought it sounded like he was say succeal,
    and i didn't know what succeal meant or if it's even a word
    But I still believe he say I love my Lord and everyone who loves him loves me.
    

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  General Comment:Right on RayMan!

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  General Comment:@ jhendrix516:
  
  George himself cheated Pattie too with lots of women. The both did. But it was George who started it. Read her biography.

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  General Comment:the Violins do it for me, slightly more sweeter than bitter.

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  General Comment:my favourite from george.
  i love the feeling i get when i listen to this song.
  so full of life, george is a legend.
  your music still lives on today, listen to your tunes all the time.

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  General Comment:Whether it's about love for a person or God, this song is awesome. It's pretty much the only Harrison solo song that I could've seen being played by the Beatles.

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  General Comment:This is probably my favourte george harrison song of all time (including his beatle compositions). I have always considered it a love song rather than something with spiritual or religious undertones. On another note, I'll never understand why it just gets written off as a simple pop song. For instance, it was not played at the concert for bangladesh or the concert for george. I can understand their reasoning with bangladesh, but what is life definitely should have been acknowledged in the latter show. It's a beautiful song and a true testament of george's songwriting and analytical perception (for those who believe this song has spiritual undertones).

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