MOODY BLUES

 

 

Through so many of life's passages, the music of the Moody Blues has

inspired, comforted and guided me and given me the memories of a lifetime.

 "Lovely to see you again my friend.

Dark cloud of fear is blowing away now that you're here.

Tell us what you've seen in far away forgotten lands

where embers have turned back to sand."

LOVELY TO SEE YOU, On the Threshold of a Dream

 

 

"I've been thinking about our fortune

and I've decided that we're really not to blame.

For the love that's deep inside us now is still the same.

And the sound we make together is the music to the story in your eyes.

It's been shining down upon me now, I realize.

Listen to the tide slowly turning, wash all our heartaches away.

We're part of the fire that is burning

 

and from the ashes we can build another day.

And when the final line is over and it's certain that the curtain's gonna fall,

I can hide inside your sweet, sweet love forevermore."

THE STORY IN YOUR EYES,  Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

  

  "...For some short time, for a while, you and I were joined to eternity.

Then we split in two back to me and you like the rain rising from the sea.."

AFTER YOU CAME Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

 

  

   "Out on the ocean of life my love

there are so many storms we must rise above.

Can you hear the spirit calling as it's carried across the waves?

You're already falling. It's calling you back to face the music

and the song that is coming through.

You're already falling. The one that it's calling is you.

Make a promise take a vow. Trust your feelings. Its easy now.

Understand the voice within and feel the changes already beginning."

THE VOICE, Long Distance Voyager

 

 

  

 "There's a voice that calls us onward down the lonely street.

When we tread the path no longer, the circle is complete.

A million souls scream in anguish, while others rest in sleep."

I HEARD IT, The View from the Hill

 

 

"Once upon a time, once when you were mine...

Once beneath the stars the universe was ours.

Love was all we knew and all I knew was you.

I wonder where you are. I wonder if you think about me

once upon a time in your wildest dreams."

IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS, The Other Side of Life

"Well, I dreamed last night you were calling my name...

Like a bird on a far distant mountain

Like a ship on an uncharted sea,

you are lost in the arms that have found you.

Don't be afraid. Love's plans are made."

"I Dreamed Last Night" Blue Jays

 

 "It's alright. I'm with you through the night.

I've listened to your dreams. I am the presence that you've seen.

Slip out of darkness and into the light.

The words of the promise that was made were right.

No tears and no trouble. No heartache, no pain.

I know that we're going to be one again."

ONE AGAIN, Moving Mountains

 

 

 

  "Isn't life strange, a turn of a page,

a book without light unless with love we write.

To throw it away, to lose just a day, the quicksand of time...

You know it makes me want to cry.

"Wish I could be in your heart, to be one with your love,

Wish I could be in your eyes.

Looking back, there you were and here we are.

 

 

 

  ...Each breath that we breathe, with love we must weave,

to make us as one."

ISN'T LIFE STRANGE, Seventh Sojourn

 

 

 

  "The promise that we made each other haunts me to the end.

I know you're out there somewhere.

Somewhere you can hear my voice.

I know I'll find you somehow

and somehow I'll return again to you...

 

 

The secret of your beauty and the mystery of your soul

I've been searching for in everyone I meet...

And to those who lack the courage, say it's dangerous to try,

well, they just don't know that love eternal

will not be denied..."

I Know You're Out There, Sur La Mer

 

 

 "Wherever you go, whatever you do,

whatever you say, say it with love."

SAY IT WITH LOVE, Keys of the Kingdom

 

 

  "If only you knew what's inside of me now,

you wouldn't want to know me somehow..."

 NEVER COMES THE DAY,, On the Threshold of a Dream

 

 

  "There are times when I think I've found the truth.

There are times when I know that I'm wrong

And the days when I try to hide my fears.

Bless the days when I'm feeling strong."

OUR GUESSING GAME, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

 

 

 

 

Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore ...

...Red is grey and yellow, white.

But we decide which is right and which is an illusion"

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN, Days of Future Passed

 

 "The change in these past years has

made me see our world in many different ways.

How can I tell you, love can change our destiny."

MY SONG, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

 

"Rivers of endless tides have passed beneath my feet

and all too soon they had me standing on my own.

Then when my eyes were close you opened them for me

and now we journey through our lives to what will be."

EMILY'S SONG, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

 

 

  "I have my hopes to comfort me. I've got my new horizons out to sea...

Where is this place that we have found? Nobody knows where we are bound.

I long to hear, I need to see. Because I've shed tears too many for me.

 

But I'm never gonna lose your precious gift. It will always be that way.

And I know I'm gonna find my peace of mind someday.

On the wind, soaring free, spread your wings. I'm beginning to see.

Out of mind, far from view, beyond the reach of the nightmare come true."

NEW HORIZONS, Seventh Sojourn

 

 

 "Like the rose that blooms in the wintertime

as it reaches up through the snow

The more life keeps us apart the more love will grow.

Like the seed that grows in the darkness, as it reaches up to the sun,

I will always reach out for you 'cause you are the one....

There's a part of you that will always be part of me.

I bless the wings that bring you back across the shore."

BLESS THE WINGS, Keys of the Kingdom

 

 

"Long time ago, back in the mist of time,

back where the crystal waters flowed,

there was a world so strange and so beautiful.

All life would flourish and would grow,

Years went by. Time just fell away. Love was worshiped like the sun.

But as we arrive at the house of the water sign we're living in strange times...

What do we need? What do we hunger for? Who holds the secret? Who will know?

Temples of greed in ruins on the riverbed. Wastelands that lived before the snow."

STRANGE TIMES, Strange Times

 

 

 "When you stop and think about it you won't believe its true

that all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you...

Between the silence of the mountains and the crashing of the sea

there lies the land I once lived in and she waiting there for me.

But In the grey of the morning my mind become confused

between the dead and the sleeping and the road that I must chose.

 I'm looking for someone to change my life. I'm looking for a miracle in our lives.

But, if you could see what its done to me, to lose the love I knew

could safely lead me to the land that I once knew,

to learn as we grow old the secrets of our souls."

QUESTION, A Question of Balance

 

  

 "I really miss you when the nights are long

and only silence is heard in this world of song.

But life goes on and forevermore, I'll be haunted by your love...

Lonely is the river as it tumbles to the ocean.

Searching for our future, we can't find our way back home. "

 HAUNTED, Strange Times

 

OCE

 

  "I don't know what I'm searching for. I never have opened the door.

Tomorrow might find me at last turning my back on the past.

But, time will tell of stars that fell a million years ago.

 

 

Memories can never take me back home, sweet home.

You can never go home anymore.

All my life I never really knew me till today.

Now I know I'm just another step along the way.

"I lie awake for hours, I'm just waiting for the sun

when the journey we are making has begun.

Don't deny the feeling that is stealing through your heart.

Every happy ending needs to have a start.

 High above the forest lie the pastures of the sun,

where the two who learned the secret now are one. "

 YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

 

 

 "The day we meet again I'll be waiting there for you.

We will walk in peace through the garden, down the road.

When the mist of time is lifting.

See it rising in the air."

THE DAY WE MEET AGAIN, Blue Jays

    "Where did we go wrong?

We had all the magic to put us on our way

and all the tragedy we ever want to see.

But you know I'm right when I say

the best is yet to come."

THE BEST IS YET TO COME, Moving Mountains

 

 "Live hand in hand

and together we'll stand,

on the threshold of a dream."

 

 

 

 For more on the Moody Blues, visit these sites:

John Lodge.com

Justin Hayward.com

Index of Moody Blues Resources

The Official Moody Blues Site

 

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 Special thanks to Dan & Chris Bournay and to Amy Richter

for contributing many of the concert photos above

from their personal collections.