This is one of my favorite Beatles songs. It’s a quiet, understated song written by George Harrison for the White Album. I love the quiet feel of the song, the drums are excellent, just cool all the way around.
Here’s a little more information from Wikipedia:
Critic Richie Unterberger writes that “Long, Long, Long” is one of the most underrated songs in the Beatles’ large discography. It is a relatively quiet, calm song, especially when compared to the raucous heavy metal of “Helter Skelter” which immediately precedes it on The Beatles.“Long Long Long” is a love song, though as Nicholas Schaffner notes, it is “the first of dozens of Harrison love songs that are ambiguous in that he could be singing either to his lady or to his Lord.”
According to Harrison’s autobiography, I Me Mine, the rattling heard at the end of the song was the result of a bottle of Blue Nun wine sitting on the Leslie speaker. When Paul McCartney, who was playing Hammond organ on the track, hit a certain note, the bottle began to rattle.
And of course, the lyrics:
It’s been a long long long time,
How could I ever have lost you
When I loved you.
It took a long long long time
Now I’m so happy I found you
How I love you
So many tears I was searching,
So many tears I was wasting, oh. Oh–
Now I can see you, be you
How can I ever misplace you
How I want you
Oh I love you
You know that I need you.
Ooh I love you.
