Writing's on the Wall (George Harrison song) Harrison sings of friends who are "drunk away, shot away, or die away from you". Author Ian Inglis likens the song's message, regarding the need to accept and prepare for death, to a philosophical point espoused by Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Inglis writes that, like Borges in his poem "Limits", Harrison fully accepts the impermanence of life and so challenges Dylan Thomas's contention (in "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night") that the inevitability of death should be defied until the end. Harrison recorded "Writing's on the Wall" during the main sessions for "Somewhere in England", held at
Come, Gentle Night! Come, Gentle Night! "Come, Gentle Night!" is a poem by Clifton Bingham set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901. It is a song for soprano voice, the title page advertising that it was sung by Madame Clara Butt. The song was written at the same time as Elgar's "Cockaigne", and published in 1901 by Boosey & Co. in London and New York. In his book on Elgar, Thomas Dunhill criticised this and others of his songs, finding it "...almost unbelievable that a composer of such power and distinction should have been willing to attach his name