Lyric discussion by Wenaolong 

Cover art for The Voice lyrics by Moody Blues, The

Me, I always got a sort of general feeling that this song is about life as such, about being an embodied soul and having to come to grips with one's own life.

At first you don't know what to do, and you need a teacher, so you ask them to tell you again, teach you again, tell you the rules, lay it on the line.

Then they do, and you hear it and understand it, but it is so amorphous, flighty (or is your mind/attention...). So you go out and try this or that, but you think you have failed somehow, and are "the lonely one".

You ask again and again. This being tells you "don't you know it is YOU?" and you finally learn to listen within, to the voice within, and trust this deepest and truest self.

Now you celebrate this wisdom that is within you and without you, and you see that it's easy now. You feel the changes, already beginning...

First line sets the stage. "Won't you take me back to school, I need to learn the golden rule. The Golden Rule is "to do unto others as you would do unto them". Then the song gets personal between the singer and his love. A balance seems to take place. Each and every rising sun, is greeted by a lonely one. Life becomes a series of contradictions and the singer needs the reassurance of his love that she still loves him throughout the ups and downs of life. "Cause out of the ocean of life my love. There are so...

First line says it all.