Lyrics to The Song in the Credits of Kubo and the Two Strings

I attended an early screening of Kubo and the Two Strings when I was in LA for the film’s press junket.

The movie was beautiful – absolutely stunning. I’ll have many more details in my upcoming review, but I wanted to share a fun fact from the end credits of Kubo and the Two Strings.

I was immediately taken with the opening notes of the song that played in the end credits of Kubo and the Two Strings. The key and the instruments made for a haunting combination of sounds that were a perfect fit for the movie.

It wasn’t until the singer started with the vocals that I realized it was Regina Spektor singing While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

I have to tell you, that song gets me every time I hear it. Whether it’s the original, sung by The Beatles, Jake Shimabukuro playing it on ukelele or this new version, While My Guitar Gently Weeps one of those songs that seems to succeed in every adaptation.

Watch Regina Spektor’s music video for While my Guitar Gently Weeps from Kubo and the Two Strings:

Lyrics to While My Guitar Gently Weeps from Kubo and the Two Strings

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps.

I don’t know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don’t know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.

I look at the world and I notice it’s turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps.

I don’t know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don’t know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.

I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all…
Still my guitar gently weeps

While My Guitar Gently Weeps was written by George Harrison

Buy the Kubo and the Two Strings soundtrack or download While My Guitar Gently Weeps from Kubo and the Two Strings performed by Regina Spektor.

Be sure to check out the expert origami artist and Shinobu Ichiyanagi demonstrating Japanese candy art at the Kubo and the Two Strings press junket!

See the rest of our Kubo and the Two Strings coverage:

• My interview with Kubo and the Two Strings’ director and producer, LAIKA’s Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner.
• How a Stop Motion Film like Kubo and the Two Strings is Made
• The Kubo and the Two Strings production team: What they do and how they do it.

Kubo and the Two Strings arrives in theaters on August 19, 2016.

About Kubo and the Two Strings:

An epic action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan from acclaimed animation studio LAIKA.

Clever, kindhearted Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson of Game of Thrones) ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town including Hosato (George Takei), Akihiro (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), and Kameyo (Academy Award nominee Brenda Vaccaro).

But his relatively quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past which storms down from the heavens to enforce an age-old vendetta.

Now on the run, Kubo joins forces with Monkey (Academy Award winner Charlize Theron) and Beetle (Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey), and sets out on a thrilling quest to save his family and solve the mystery of his fallen father, the greatest samurai warrior the world has ever known.

With the help of his shamisen, a magical musical instrument, Kubo must battle gods and monsters, including the vengeful Moon King (Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes) and the evil twin Sisters (Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara), to unlock the secret of his legacy, reunite his family, and fulfill his heroic destiny.

Find out where Kubo and the Two Strings will be showing at a theater near you!

Disclosure: Travel and most expenses were covered to facilitate the trip and learn more about Kubo And The Two Strings.  All opinions are my own.