while my guitar gently weeps

i look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping,
while my guitar gently weeps
i look at the floor, and i see it needs sweeping,
still my guitar gently weeps

i don't know why nobody told you
how to unfold your love
i don't know how someone controlled you
they bought and sold you

i look at the world and i notice it's turning
while my guitar gently weeps
with every mistake we must surely be learning 
still my guitar gently weeps

i don't know how you were diverted
you were perverted too
i don't know how you were inverted
no one alerted you