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"Māya Love" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released on his 1974 album ''Dark Horse''. The song originated as a slide guitar tune, to which Harrison later added lyrics relating to the illusory nature of love – ''maya'' being a Sanskrit term for "illusion", or "that which is not". Harrison's biographers consider the lyrical theme to be reflective of his failed marriage to Pattie Boyd, who left him for his friend Eric Clapton shortly before the words were written. Harrison recorded the song at his home, Friar Park, on the eve of his North American tour with Ravi Shankar, which took place in November and December 1974. The recording features Harrison's slide guitar extensively and contributions from four musicians who formed the nucleus of his tour band: Billy Preston, Tom Scott, Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark. Reviewers note the track as an example of its parent album's more diverse musical genres, namely funk and rhythm and blues, compared with the more traditional rock orientation of Harrison's earlier solo work. Harrison played "Māya Love" throughout his 1974 tour, although no live recording has ever been officially released. The song later appeared as the B-side of Harrison's second single off his 1975 album ''Extra Texture'', "This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying)", which was the final release by Apple Records in its original incarnation. ==Background and composition== In his single sentence discussing "Māya Love" in ''I, Me, Mine'', his 1980 autobiography, George Harrison states that he wrote the song "purely as a slide guitar tune with the words added later".〔Harrison, p. 270.〕 His handwritten lyrics for the song include mention of open E tuning,〔Harrison, p. 271.〕 Harrison's preferred alternative tuning〔Clayson, p. 279.〕 and one he used for his other slide guitar compositions during the first half of the 1970s, such as "Woman Don't You Cry for Me", "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" and "Hari's on Tour (Express)".〔Harrison, p. 234.〕 Simon Leng, Harrison's musical biographer, likens "Māya Love" to "Woman Don't You Cry for Me" and the 1987 song "Cloud 9", in that they all feature lyrics that were "appended out of necessity" rather than created through genuine inspiration.〔Leng, p. 247.〕 In this case, the "perfunctory" lyrics〔Clayson, p. 336.〕 consist of a series of comparisons between the illusory nature of love and that of all things in the material world,〔Allison, pp. 64–65.〕 in line with the basic Hindu concept that everything in life is ''maya''.〔Tillery, pp. 106–07.〕 Theologian Dale Allison writes that Harrison had "anticipated" such an interpretation of the world in his lyrics to the Beatles song "Within You, Without You" in 1967 – specifically when referring to people who "''hide themselves behind a wall of illusion''".〔Allison, p. 64.〕 The first explicit mention of ''maya'' in a Harrison composition appears in "Beware of Darkness",〔Leng, p. 93.〕 released on his 1970 triple album ''All Things Must Pass''.〔Schaffner, p. 142.〕 Harrison biographers such as Allison and Ian Inglis interpret his concept of ''maya'' love in this 1974 song as reflecting the failure of his marriage to Pattie Boyd, rather than a comment on love and human relationships in general.〔Allison, pp. 65, 150.〕〔 However, Eric Clapton, for whom Boyd left Harrison in July 1974,〔Pattie Boyd, ("Pattie Boyd: 'My hellish love triangle with George and Eric' – Part Two" ), ''Daily Mail'', 4 August 2007 (retrieved 9 March 2013).〕 has spoken of Harrison's view that relationships were, like possessions, all ''maya''.〔Eric Clapton interview, in ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' DVD (Warner Strategic Marketing, 2003; directed by Martin Scorsese; produced by Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair & Martin Scorsese).〕 During an interview with Houston radio station KLOL, shortly before the song's release in December that year,〔 Harrison elaborated on the concept: "''Maya'' love is something when it's 'I love you ''if'', 'I love you ''when'', 'I love you ''but''. It's a type of love that comes and goes which we do tend to give to one another ..."〔("Hari's On Tour (Depressed)" ), Contra Band Music, 17 October 2012 (retrieved 18 August 2014).〕 In the first verse of "Māya Love", Harrison compares such "unreal" love to the flow of the ocean:〔 Subsequent verses equate illusory love with the passing of each day ("''First it comes, then it rolls away''"), the wind (which is "''Blowing hard on everything''") and rainfall (which Harrison describes as "''Beating on your window brain''").〔Inglis, p. 46.〕 Allison writes of these comparisons: "All this presumably stands in contrast to God's love, which doesn't come and go, which never gives way to night, and which heals rather than harms."〔 The final verse states: "''Māya love is like a stream / Flowing through this cosmic dream.''"〔Harrison, p. 272.〕 Allison views this analogy as a reference to all things in the material world being "nothing more than God's dream".〔Allison, p. 65.〕 The same life-as-a-dream metaphor appears in later Harrison compositions, Allison suggests, particularly "Unknown Delight", written about the birth of his and second wife Olivia Arias's son Dhani, and "Dream Away", Harrison's theme song for the HandMade movie ''Time Bandits'' (1981).〔 Musically the song combines Harrison's blues-based riffs〔Huntley, p. 110.〕 with elements of funk, a genre that he was increasingly drawn towards during this period via his enduring passion for R&B and soul.〔Leng, p. 153.〕 Leng also observes that "Māya Love" is another instalment in its composer's "long line of three-syllable chants", following on from songs such as "My Sweet Lord" and "Give Me Love".〔Leng, p. 153fn.〕 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「Māya Love」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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