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The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to you door
The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
Crying for the day
Why leave me standing here
Let me know the way
Many times I've been alone
And many times I've cried
Any way you'll never know
The many ways I've tried
But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me waiting here
A long long time ago
Don't leave me standing here
Lead me to your door
But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me waiting here
A long long time ago
Don't leave me standing here
Lead me to your door
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Lead me to you door
The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
Crying for the day
Why leave me standing here
Let me know the way
Many times I've been alone
And many times I've cried
Any way you'll never know
The many ways I've tried
But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me waiting here
A long long time ago
Don't leave me standing here
Lead me to your door
But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me waiting here
A long long time ago
Don't leave me standing here
Lead me to your door
Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Track duration: 03:23
"The Long and Winding Road" as written by John Winston Lennon, Paul James Mccartney
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, EMI Music Publishing
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the sessions to let it be were a disaster and the boys were looking to do a "special one off" with george martin to end on a good note........abbey road was it.
McCartney: I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song, imagining it was going to be done by someone like Ray Charles. I have always found inspiration in the calm beauty of Scotland and again it proved the place where I found inspiration.
McCartney: It’s rather a sad song. I like writing sad songs, it’s a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It’s a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist.
Martin: That made me angry - and it made Paul even angrier, because neither he nor I knew about it till it had been done. It happened behind our backs because it was done when Allen Klein was running John. He’d organized Phil Spector and I think George and Ringo had gone along with it. They’d actually made an arrangement with EMI and said, ‘This is going to be our record.’
Martin: EMI came to me and said, ‘You made this record originally but we can’t have your name on it.’ I asked them why not and they said: ‘Well, you didn’t produce the final thing.’ I said, ‘I produced the original and what you should do is have a credit saying: “Produced by George Martin, over-produced by Phil Spector”.’ They didn’t think that was a good idea.
Nevertheless, the Spector version went on to become the group's twentieth and final US #1 hit.
I've always appreciated the song but it was never one of my favourites but then I nearly cried when I heard it live. Unbelievable
i think another interpretation of this song is that sometimes one may find the person that they are meant to be with, but due to other circumstances, they are somewhat rejected from having a long term relationship with that person.
anyhow---so i think that this song talks about how you never let go of that one person, no matter how many others your with or what happens with your life. your mind leads you back or "takes you back down the road" to that one "home" that you found in that certain person.
i think another interpretation of this song is that sometimes one may find the person that they are meant to be with, but due to other circumstances, they are somewhat rejected from having a long term relationship with that person.
anyhow---so i think that this song talks about how you never let go of that one person, no matter how many others your with or what happens with your life. your mind leads you back or "takes you back down the road" to that one "home" that you found in that certain person.
i think another interpretation of this song is that sometimes one may find the person that they are meant to be with, but due to other circumstances, they are somewhat rejected from having a long term relationship with that person.
anyhow---so i think that this song talks about how you never let go of that one person, no matter how many others your with or what happens with your life. your mind leads you back or "takes you back down the road" to that one "home" that you found in that certain person.