Moody Blues: I'm a Melancholy Man

[LongTomH]

Run time: 05:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XQ4YgDfUzU   Posted on YouTube: March 05, 2010 By YouTube Member: otilija09 Views on YouTube: 12643   Posted on DU: July 13, 2011 By DU Member: LongTomH Views on DU: 880

 
I'm a melancholy man, that's what I am,
All the world surrounds me, and my feet are on the ground.
I'm a very lonely man, doing what I can,
All the world astounds me and I think I understand
That we're going to keep growing, wait and see.

When all the stars are falling down
Into the sea and on the ground,
And angry voices carry on the wind,
A beam of light will fill your head
And you'll remember what's been said
By all the good men this world's ever known.
Another man is what you'll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same,
His life caught up in misery, he doesn't think like you and me,
'Cause he can't see what you and I can see.

This Moody Blues song really speaks to me now, with the insanity we're facing, public officials with hearts as cold as interstellar space, people ready to throw old people into the street and let those old people and sick children die to protect the privileges of billionaires. At least there's a hopeful element there: "I think I understand
That we're going to keep growing."

[WheelWalker]

1. Yes, they spoke well to all time. It's a Question of Balance...

"The Murky Blues" as we lovingly called them.

[Cereal Kyller]

2. Unrecced for Irrelevance

Sorry, I gave up acid decades ago.

[Mojorabbit]

3. This line describes perfectly

some conversations I have had with way out there right wingers:

Another man is what you'll see,
Who looks like you and looks like me,
And yet somehow he will not feel the same,
His life caught up in misery, he doesn't think like you and me,
'Cause he can't see what you and I can see.

It is like they live in another universe than I do.
Thanks for posting the video. I have not heard that song in ages.

[Enthusiast]

4. K&R! I love the Moody Blues.

It really speaks to me also. This is certainly relevant to our times.

[canoeist52]

5. Very much relevent today. It's about the greed.

"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."