"Question" as written by and Justin Hayward....
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?
'Cause when we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its 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 war 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 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 love I knew
Could safely lead me to
The land that I once knew
To learn as we grow old
The secrets of our soul
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?
When we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its greed
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
'Cause when we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its 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 war 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 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 love I knew
Could safely lead me to
The land that I once knew
To learn as we grow old
The secrets of our soul
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?
When we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution
That is burning in its greed
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
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"Question" as written by Justin Hayward
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This was the opening track on the Question Of Balance album, and was going to be the title track. It was recorded several months earlier than the other tracks on the album and its title was shortened from "Question Of Balance" to "Question."
in the liner notes of the 1997 remastered CD, Justin Hayward wrote: "Sometime before we taped the album, we (documented) 'Question,' which was a song that I didn't have on Friday night for a session (the next day). But, by the morning, I had it and it was recorded very quickly." Hayward adds that it was "Recorded live, with no overdubbing or double-tracking, just a bit of echo."
In the UK, this became the group's biggest hit for their classic lineup. Before John Lodge and Justin Hayward joined the group in 1966, they had a #1 UK hit with "Go Now."
The song is a concert mainstay of The Moody Blues, which is fine with Justin Hayward, who tells us he never loses the emotion for it when he performs the tune. It's also a song that has remained relevant. Says Hayward: "There's no doubt that it still resonates, the lyrics reflect whichever generation you're in. Whatever time you're in, people are experiencing those emotions. And I find that people identify with it at any age."
Fish, who is the ex-lead singer of the UK rock group Marillion, recorded a cover version on his 1995 LP Songs From The Mirror.
I think it's maybe a little different that that. I think it's about living in the real world (which is fast, hectic, sometimes violent, etc.) but WANTING to slow things down to appreciate the love of another. Possibly the song is about the search for that time/place (i.e. utopia) but never being able to find it.
Musically the song takes that same journey. Real life rushing by... finally some time for love (when the songs slows down).... then the hectic real life comes crashing back again.
Note the reference to "secrets of our soul". Apply this to the message: "all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you".
The true power of love is staggering. We acknowledge God's desire that we love one another, but the ultimate goals achieved through this love is more abstract and hidden. It is impossible to truly love someone with first seeking to understand them. Anything less is really a "selfish love". True love is the pursuit of eternity and for our own personal benefit--it reflects God's designated path for our spiritual enlighenment.
There may be many answers, the answers may change over time... an eternal 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?
'Cos when we stop and look around us,
There is nothing that we need,
In a world of persecution that is burning in its 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 war of love is for.
the truth is hard to swallow but it is the truth that sets you free and allows universal love for its eternity, beyond individual, materialistic reality... there is the war for love, perpetual, beyond time or singular, individuals' experience. This is shared, even for a moment, but it is hard to be in this awareness all the time... but it is a shared moment for those who have glimpsed the "truth"... it is nevertheless a struggle...
It's not the way that you say it
When you say those things to me
It's more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be.
the "way" alleged, "caring" style of how things are said may be nearly obsolete, maybe a cliche...
it is "more", not necessarily exactly, the way you mean it since it is a conversation between two souls,
and that in this realm, it is not of this world but of a world to be, dreamed and perhaps realised...if possible...
BUT:
And when you stop and think about it
You won't believe it's true
-- if, out of the conversation, as a single person's hindsight, the dream is... well, ungrounded and void.
the realm is a shared deal only available to two souls dwelling in the same shared awareness beyond
logic and public/commonality...
That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you.
a mutual thing... an each other state... tha's luv...
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 love I knew
Could safely lead me through.
multiple interpretations open here, but one i may dwell on is that, having arrived at an understanding,
with a sentient soul, the mission now is to radiate the "higher love" as a spreading of sharing that love to an otherwise, unfamiliar world... maybe...
like grasping that truth, now is the thing that must be the device that reveals to more sentients that it is this war of love that must endure... blablabla let's move on...
To learn as we grow old,
The secrets of our soul.
let's keep the line open and ponder what we, united have learned (not a break up song) time, immaterial... only aging...
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 chose.
In solitary awareness is the open line for communion despite vast space time distance... with faith
that she is there ... where "they" started...
but waking alone, empirical reality is... a test for the mind and options are with those that may not respond and those that may wake up to... his voice... and the road continues to lead to that miracle he may find... you?
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Rated 0 if a song is titled "the question," it sure stands without the requirement of an answer.
There may be many answers, the answers may change over time... an eternal 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?
'Cos when we stop and look around us,
There is nothing that we need,
In a world of persecution that is burning in its 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 war of love is for.
the truth is hard to swallow but it is the truth that sets you free and allows universal love for its eternity, beyond individual, materialistic reality... there is the war for love, perpetual, beyond time or singular, individuals' experience. This is shared, even for a moment, but it is hard to be in this awareness all the time... but it is a shared moment for those who have glimpsed the "truth"... it is nevertheless a struggle...
It's not the way that you say it
When you say those things to me
It's more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be.
the "way" alleged, "caring" style of how things are said may be nearly obsolete, maybe a cliche...
it is "more", not necessarily exactly, the way you mean it since it is a conversation between two souls,
and that in this realm, it is not of this world but of a world to be, dreamed and perhaps realised...if possible...
BUT:
And when you stop and think about it
You won't believe it's true
-- if, out of the conversation, as a single person's hindsight, the dream is... well, ungrounded and void.
the realm is a shared deal only available to two souls dwelling in the same shared awareness beyond
logic and public/commonality...
That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you.
a mutual thing... an each other state... tha's luv...
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 love I knew
Could safely lead me through.
multiple interpretations open here, but one i may dwell on is that, having arrived at an understanding,
with a sentient soul, the mission now is to radiate the "higher love" as a spreading of sharing that love to an otherwise, unfamiliar world... maybe...
like grasping that truth, now is the thing that must be the device that reveals to more sentients that it is this war of love that must endure... blablabla let's move on...
To learn as we grow old,
The secrets of our soul.
let's keep the line open and ponder what we, united have learned (not a break up song) time, immaterial... only aging...
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 chose.
In solitary awareness is the open line for communion despite vast space time distance... with faith
that she is there ... where "they" started...
but waking alone, empirical reality is... a test for the mind and options are with those that may not respond and those that may wake up to... his voice... and the road continues to lead to that miracle he may find... you?
It mentions losing the love, and looking for someone. It sounds like he lost the wall of love that was sheltering him from the bad in the world, and now is questioning it.