The Inner Light (Harrison) Lyrics




Without going out of my door
I can know all things of earth
With out looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven

The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Without going out of my door
You can know all things of earth
With out looking out of my window
You could know the ways of heaven

The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Arrive without travelling
See all without looking
Do all without doing

 
Lead Singer: George

Recording: 1/12/68, 2/6/68, 2/8/68
Mixing: 2/6/68, 2/8/68, 1/27/70
Length: 2:35
Take: 6

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George Harrison wrote this. It was released as the B-side of "Lady Madonna" and was Harrison's first song to appear on a single.
All the music was recorded by Indian session musicians at the EMI studios in Bombay, India, while George was working on the soundtrack to the movie Wonderwall.
George Harrison had originally recorded this for the Wonderwall soundtrack in January, 1968. When the Beatles got together for recording sessions shortly before their trip to India, John and Paul added harmonies to the final line, "Do all without doing." (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)
The lyrics are a translation of a section of the Tao Te Ching. Juan Mascaro, a Sanskrit teacher at Cambridge University, sent the book to George.
This was Harrison's last Indian-themed Beatles song.


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