The Best Song From Every George Harrison Album<\/a><\/p>\n“Take care, beware of the thoughts that linger \/ Winding up inside your head \/ The hopelessness around you \/ In the dead of night \/ Beware of sadness,” Harrison sings in the second verse. In the following verse he warns: “Watch out now \/ Take care, beware of soft shoe shufflers \/ Dancing down the sidewalks \/ As each unconscious sufferer \/ Wanders aimlessly \/ Beware of Maya.”<\/p>\n
“Beware of Darkness” warns against allowing illusion to get in the way of one’s true purpose,\u00a0reflecting the philosophy of the\u00a0Radha Krishna Temple and its influence on Harrison’s own life. The ex-Beatle\u00a0wrote the song around the time he\u00a0invited some members of the Hare Krishna movement to stay at his Friar Park estate in spring 1970, helping him restore the house and gardens to give the home a new spiritual atmosphere.<\/p>\n
“‘Beware Of Darkness’ was written at home in England during a period when I had some of my friends from the Radha Krishna Temple staying: ‘Watch out for Maya’,” Harrison wrote in his 1980 memoir I, Me, Mine. (In Hinduism, “Maya” is the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to create illusions.) “The lyrics are self-explanatory.”<\/p>\n
Plenty of uninitiated listeners will\u00a0get acquainted with “Beware of Darkness” if Weapons’\u00a0box office receipts serve as any indication. The film opened with an estimated $42.5 million this weekend, beating the other new release\u00a0Freakier Friday, which bowed with $29 million.<\/p>\n
George Harrison Albums Ranked <\/p>\n
A ranking of every solo album by former Beatles star George Harrison.<\/p>\n
Gallery Credit: Nick DeRiso<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weapons\u00a0debuted at No. 1 at the box office this weekend \u2014 what’s the haunting classic rock song that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,44],"class_list":["post-59890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}