| "Within You, Without You" (Harrison) [5:05] |
| Recorded 15 March with overdubs on 22 March and 3 April 1967. |
| Released 1 June 1967 on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Parlophone PMC 7027 / PCS 7027). |
| Produced by George Martin, Geoff Emerick, Richard Lush |
| George Harrison (lead vocals, sitar, guitar and tambura), with two tabla players (Amiya Das Gupta and a local drummer) members of the Asian Music Circle of Finchley, north London (surmandal and dilruba), Neil Aspinal (tambura), and a string ensemble consisting of Erich Gruenberg, Alan Loveday, Julien Gaillard, Paul Scherman, Ralph Elman, David Wolfsthal, Jack Rothstein and Jack Greene (violins) and Reginald Kilbey, Allen Ford, and Peter Veavan (cellos). (See Dowlding 1989:174-75 and Lewisohn 1988:103, 107.) |
| The Beatles. 1967. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [8]. London: EMI Records Ltd. |
| cf. Anthology [2:2:11] |
| Notes and Quotes |
| Sect | Time | Meas. | Description | Text | |
| intro | part 1 | 0:00 | 7+ | Tambura drone followed by dilruba solo. Ends with the scale plucked on the surmandal. | — |
| part 2 | 0:23 | 4 | With a two-beat flourish, the tabla establishes the basic accompanying pattern (a variation on the 16-beat cycle, Tintal). | ||
| verse | 0:33 | 22 | Double-tracked vocal doubled by a double-tracked dilruba. The tabla maintains Tintal; however, Harrison adds two extra measures at the end of the line, forcing the drummer to compensate by adding eight beats so that the second verse will begin again in tala. | a | |
| verse | 1:16 | 21 | As in the first verse with the addition of a string arrangement that complements the vocal-dilruba melody. This verse ends with a pause. | b | |
| chorus | 1:59 | Characteristic of the two-part compositional device of North Indian classical and devotional music, this melody contrasts with that of the verse by focusing on a higher pitch. The title of the song appears as the last words to the line. | c | ||
| verse | 2:26 | An instrumental version of the verse set in 10 beats rather than the 16 of the previous verses. The strings play the main melody with the sitar responding at the end of each statement. | — | ||
| bridge | 3:41 | The tabla re-establishes the 16-beat time cycle of the verse section. | — | ||
| verse | 3:48 | Voice doubled by dilruba and responded to by strings. | d | ||
| chorus | 4:33 | As above. |
| Text | |
| We
were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves
behind a wall of illusion Never glimpse the truth, then it's far too late when they pass a way. |
a |
| We
were talking about the love we all could share when we find it to try
our best to hold it there with our love With our love we could save the world if they only knew. |
b |
| Try
to realize it's all within your self, No one else can make you change. And to see you're really only very small, And life flows on within you and without you. |
c |
| We
were talking about the love that's gone so cold and the people who gain
the world and lose their soul. They don't know. They can't see. Are you one of them? |
d |
| When
you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting
there. And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you. |
e |
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