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"Hear Me Lord" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass''. It appeared as the last track on side four of the original LP format and is generally viewed as the closing song on the album, disc three being the largely instrumental ''Apple Jam''. Harrison wrote "Hear Me Lord" in January 1969 while still in the Beatles, but it was passed over for inclusion on what became the band's final album, ''Let It Be'' (1970). Musically, the song is in the gospel-rock style, while the lyrics take the form of a personal prayer, in which Harrison seeks help and forgiveness from his deity. Along with "My Sweet Lord", it is among the most overtly religious selections on ''All Things Must Pass''. The recording was co-produced by Phil Spector and features musical contributions from Eric Clapton, Gary Wright, Billy Preston, Bobby Whitlock and other musicians from Delaney & Bonnie's Friends band. On release, Ben Gerson of ''Rolling Stone'' described "Hear Me Lord" as the album's "big statement" and a "majestic plea".〔 Harrison performed the song at the Concert for Bangladesh on 1 August 1971, during the afternoon show only, although the recording has never been issued officially. ==Background and composition== Despite it being recognised as a deeply personal statement, "Hear Me Lord" was a composition that Harrison did not mention at all in his 1980 autobiography, ''I, Me, Mine''.〔Leng, p. 99.〕〔Spizer, p. 225.〕 Simon Leng, author of the first musical biography on George Harrison, describes the self-revelation evident in the lyrics to "Hear Me Lord" as "unprecedented" – "How many millionaire rock stars," he asks, "use a song to beg forgiveness from God, or anyone else ...?"〔 Leng observes three "anchors" in the song's lyrics: the phrases "forgive me", "help me" and "hear me".〔 In their pleas for forgiveness, acknowledgement of weakness and promise of self-improvement, Harrison's words have been described by author Ian Inglis as offering a similar statement to the Christian Lord's Prayer.〔Inglis, p. 31.〕 In addition, Inglis highlights the song's final verse – particularly the lines "''Help me Lord, please / To burn out this desire''" – as being an "almost flagellatory ... self-chastisement" on its composer's part.〔 Religious academic Joshua Greene has recognised the same couplet as an example of Harrison the "life-lover", prone to "sexual fantasies", and just one facet of its parent album's "intimately detailed account of a spiritual journey".〔Greene, p. 181.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hear Me Lord」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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