Jealous Guy - John Lennon arranged for String Quartet

I began this arrangement early last year, but I was heading into a bit of a creative rut which in hindsight appears to have been actually a period where my ambitions began to outstrip my skills. Thankfully in the interim my skills seem to have improved and my ambitions shrunk, so when I sat down to finish this one off a few days ago, after spending a few hours trying to "perfect" the first few bars I embraced what I had originally written and started making progress.
John Lennon the hero was the first Lennon I discovered growing up, but truthfully Lennon's lofty public statements were at odds with a pretty cruel and troubled soul. Before he started messing around with LSD and primal scream and heroin and the like he was probably putting on a funny façade to fulfil his ambitions, but after that it became more like a periodically successful attempt to outrun his original adolescent self. This song is emblematic of this idea of John: the lyric is an apology for some behavior (unspecified in the lyric) that was driven by fear of abandonment. It also reads a little like the classic abuser/addict impassioned plea for forgiveness that is inevitably followed by the same behavior that required forgiveness in the first case.
Without overegging it too much (hopefully), this arrangement has elements of "granny music" as John would have called it (the façade), with elements of the grand gesture of regret and moments of genuine pain and remorse. The three verses are arranged loosely according to their respective lyrics.