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
Fais do-do Fais do-do A fais do-do is a Cajun dance party, originating before World War II. According to Mark Humphrey, the parties were named for "the gentle command ('go to sleep') young mothers offered bawling infants." He quotes early Cajun musician Edwin Duhon of the Hackberry Ramblers: "Do-do" itself is a shortening of the French verb "dormir" (to sleep), used primarily in speaking to small children. The phrase is comparable to the American English "beddy-bye", and is embodied in an old French lullaby, a song sung to children when putting them down for the night. Its existence in Cajun culture as