"Why do we never get an answer..."

[TomInTib]

Watching the Moody Blues special on PBS tonight...this is their finale, and the question of the song seems so apt right now..."

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

1. Love the Moody Blues

"Question"

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war.

It's where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution
That is burning in it's greed.

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That's what the wall of love is for.

It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It's more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be.

And when you stop and think about it
You won't believe it's true.
That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you.

I'm looking for someone to change my life.
I'm looking for a miracle in my life.
And if you could see what it's done to me
To lose the the love I knew
Could safely lead me through.

Between the silence of the mountains
And the crashing of the sea
There lies a land I once lived in
And she's waiting there for me.

But in the grey of the morning
My mind becomes confused
Between the dead and the sleeping
And the road that I must choose.

I'm looking for someone to change my life.
I'm looking for a miracle in my life.
And if you could see what it's done to me
To lose the 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.

It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It's more the way you really mean it
When you tell me what will be.

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war.

It's where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution
That is burning in it's greed.

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?

[TomInTib]

3. Wow - Thank You.......!!!!!!

And I read those lyrics, and think about all the "fallen" and all of the ones who will come home so terribly affected - both physically and mentally - by all that they have seen and done and gone through. And their families. Thank you again.

[Mythsaje]

4. Gave me chills

reading this.

I grew up listening to the Moody Blues. They were my favorite band as a kid.

[driver8]

2. My college roommate didn't listen to anything but The

Moody Blues! Every freakin' day...Moody Blues!

To this day (20 years later), I cannot stand to listen to their music. I know they have some great songs, believe me...I've heard them all about a thousand times.

I hope I never hear another Moody Blues' song as long as I live.

[Old and In the Way]

6. LOL........funny how that happens.

There was a guy I knew in school that listened to 'American Pie' about 15 times a day. It went on for weeks. I recall one day he went ballistic when he found his "American Pie" with a very neat and deliberate gouge from the very beginning to the very end of that tune. Probably 1/16" x 16". He got the message.

Another guy who roomed next door to me had a Jeckel/Hyde personality. He was the quiet, studious type the whole week until Friday. He'd start drinking vodka around 4:00 PM and by 10:00 he would invariably crank Humble Pie's "I don't Need No Doctor" to 11 and proceed to tear his room apart....he'd bounce off wall's, overturn his furniture, just basically go nuts.

One night, he broke his arm jumping off his bed....that night, he did need a doctor.

:-)

[eggman67]

9. I have the same problem with Led Zeppelin

on top of the plagiarism thing, I'm just tired of hearing them. I am a Mooody Blues junkie, however. :)

[TomInTib]

10. Smile...Ms. TominTib has a distinct memory of dancing with

a rather tall young man at the age of 16 to the tune of "Stairway to Heaven". He was a little hygiene-challenged, and my nose was stuck in his armpit for what is arguably the longest song in the entire world.

[Zen Democrat]

5. "Question" is often overlooked as a great anti-Vietnam War anthem.

It's such a beautiful song and sung with such emotion from Justin Hayward that it stands alone -- but was written as an anti-Vietnam War song.

[TomInTib]

7. This could be our current anthem, especially for Cindy...n/t

[welshTerrier2]

8. from "The Story in Your Eyes"

this song really captured the feeling of the 60's revolution and accurately foresaw the failure of the movement - if only we could build a new movement with the same energies ... we thought we could change the world ... perhaps for a short time we did ...

look at how these two verses from "The Story in Your Eyes" captured first the hope and then the pessimism:

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 for another day

But I'm frightened for your children
And the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we've been waiting for
Will turn to rain.

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. The "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" LP

When I was in the Army (1970-72) we just about wore out that one.