This song changed my life. I loved the Moody Blues from The Days of Future Past all the way to Seventh Sourjorn and I was just getting into acid or LSD for you younger people, and my father was an alcoholic and was physically and and verbally abusive to me as I was growing up and I was an angry and bitter teenager,but after listening to this song over and over again,I realized that I was only hurting myself and then i learned to forgive my father and stopped hating him and I felt much better. Now whenever I get angry at the stupidity of the world I just listen to this song and it clams me right out
It’s the way it’s always been. There’s a natural order and humans lost their way with industrialization, and now we are destroying nature. But as you can see, nature is fighting back with great effect.
I hear you, Brian. The Moody Blues helped me through some dark times and I was right there with you during those experimental days. I look to them now to get me through current events. This morning as I was waking up thinking about all the horrors right now from fires to floods to human distress this song came back to me to replace all these thoughts. And I realized this morning that long ago I had listened to this song so many times that I have it memorized.
I cry literally every time I listen to this...and I listen to it a lot. Graeme Edge and the late Ray Thomas wrote some of the most wonderful, beautiful words ever when they composed this. This song, if that is the correct term for it, is THE lesson of life, and sadly, we still have not learned it.
I so see myself in this song, I've been a Moody Blues fan since the late 60's and never really understood this song. Now, now I believe that I do. Sixty seven and still learning.
it's a deep soul food kind of song, I have loved this song and many of their others as I listened intently as a teenager, I am now 72. I still love and cherish these words.
My very favorite composition in the entire MB catalog...I think a statement of the collective MB message. It is hard to believe that this wonderful recording was released 52 years ago today. Thanks Graeme, Mike, Ray, Justin, and John.
Just open your eyes and realize there is something so much greater than yourself that cannot be described in a popular novel, speech, art piece, song, movie or poem. There is a force outside of our self that would be daft to assume it male or female. This beautiful existence is not by chance. It is not a "big bang". This balance is perfect and to dwell on the negative aspects of nature and our own negative presumptions of morality is only upsetting the balance. Evil must be present to know or understand what good is. Hence the balance. We need this song to echo through our civilizations more than ever.
I adore this song! I adore and love The Moody Blues!!! 💙💙💙 I am gutted that beloved Ray Thomas, and now Graeme Edge have passed. 💔💔 Growing up, they were all my big brothers, and taught me to LOVE! I've always had difficulty finding the BALANCE between the Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, and Psychological; and the Moodies pointed me towards the true paths to Love and Enlightenment. GOD BLESS THE MOODY BLUES, now and during our travels down Eternity Road together, all of them and especially Graeme, Ray, Justin, John, and Mike!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I love this song. This, and *Questions* are my favourite songs on A Question of Balance. The first time I heard *The Balance,* I broke down crying. I felt as though this song was talking about me. :)
+George Estremera It is. I've done things over the years that I'm not proud of. And this song *"The Balance",* felt like God was forgiving me for all the things I had done.
Dudes -- it IS all about forgiveness.... starts with(in) ourselves and radiates out in ever widening circles until it enfolds the whole universe... which is "One Song". Yeah!
I haven't heard it in awhile. And got "the goose skin" at 1:06 and then again at 2:44 when they really let loose. Pinder on that Mellotron is awesomeness.
Nitpick: Mike provided the spoken word, but the song was written by Greame Edge and Ray Thomas. Greame almost certainly wrote the words (as the Moodies' resident poet).
Oh man, this is a sermon, delivered with the utmost insight and sincerity. This spiritual outlook has been the basis for my own personal religion for the past 50 years. All other religions that I have investigated seem so contrived by contrast.
I was given a copy of "Question Of Balance" when I was 22,33 years (the lifespan of Jesus) ago.Just starting to get my feet wet with metaphysics,I instinctively grasped the truths contained in the lyrics,but didn't completely understand them then.Now I do.To all a happy.peaceful, prosperous and joy-fiiled 2020,with new levels of light being achieved in humanity and on planet earth.............................
The Answer to the Question of Balance is compassion. Love this album to this day it has great meaning and moves me deeply. I loved seeing them in concert back in the 70s.
I'm speaking in the Buddhist or Spiritual sense. Which moves me not to quibble about the definition or distinctions between love and compassion but practice both and the same at the moment!
You are right... in Buddhist spirituality it is compassion; in Christian spirituality it is love, which include compassion. In my opinion the Moody Blues and their opus of first seven or eight albums are the greatest artistic achievements within popular culture of 20th century. Their music is fourfold: melody -- harmony -- rhythm -- lyrics, and as such it often excels many master pieces of classical music. They are completely in accordance with the michaelic Spirit of Time. Some lyrics of theirs recall to the messages or teaching of modern anthroposophically oriented spiritual science...
My Moody Blues tribute band just started rehearsing this song when the coronairus pandemic shut us and everyone else down. So bummed as i looked forward to this song more than any others. Just got all the mellotron parts worked out. Aaargh!
What always captured me about this track was Mike Pinder's beautiful, beautiful mellotron strings work behind his own spoken voice (before he adds some strident brass for the sung Middle 8 parts). Especially behind the second verse. It's spellbinding playing of a notoriously difficult instrument, and no one else could achieve what he could with it. When Pinder left, the band (although remaining oustandingly good) lost that element of magic that had made their music so enchanting.
The Holy Ghost Says "Thank You Beagle" You did a service to all "Being Kind" (Old Word "Humankind") another Word for "I" Care Method in Which, "God Cares for all Creation." This is Only time I'll Speak in Public. YOU MADE HISTORY.
They didn't induct YES until Squire had died from cancer. They inducted people like Chaka Khan and a bunch of rappers before they inducted Rush. The "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" is a self-serving creation of the Cultural Marxist hipster fools who run Rolling Stone magazine. I remember a music history teacher, at a conservatory I attended 30 years ago, saying that had he actually listened to Rolling Stone's reviews, he would own the crappiest collection of music on the planet. The whole class laughed, and nobody disagreed. I agree with you that the Moodys belong in the RRHoF - they should have been inducted 20 years ago - but the thing itself is a sham and a farce, a thinly-veiled "cool kids' club," so at the end of the day, who cares? WE know The Moody Blues' true place in music history. Let the poseurs do as they wish. Pay them no heed. 😎
Sooo true. I had a mellotron in 1975. sold it because it kept breaking down. I now have "Mike Pinder Presents Mellotron" sampling CD and have sampled it to my virtual sampling software on my laptop. I am playing Mike's mellotron on stage in my Moody Blues tribute show :-)
@@gareebee wow! That is totally awesome. I can imagine the issues with a mellotron breaking down so much going on in those things the fact that you got those samples is really something. Moody Blues are awesome one of my favorite shows that I never get tired of is Isle of Wight 1970. Everybody is on and Heyward never touches an acoustic plays his 335 through the whole show.. I bought question of Balance album as a kid and it' sat on my turntable for months.
...now, if we could just get past this virus pandemic, maybe we can grace the stage again. We still rehearse, hoping to play out again. Working on "The Balance" and "One Step Into The Light". Sublime!
Hey, thank you for adding the lyrics to this song; including the soothing font and the cascading method. It's simple and beautifully done. Fukn awesome.
Greetings, wambligleshga tunkah, I join my heart with yours for total remission of the 'C', complete success of all treatments, restoration of all strength, protection & thriving of all healthy cells, tissues, organs, & glands in your body. May all your health spring back speedily!!
beagle055! You da MAN! (woman?) I am such a fan as to almost deify this most AWESOME prog-rock group (it is believed that these boys invented the genre)...but I digress. As I am fighting the big "C" with surgery, hormone and radiation therapies, the lyrics (prayers!?) of the Moody's songs have re-inserted themselves back into the deepest emotional and conscience centers of my conscious mind!! They again sound the same as I initially enjoyed them back in the '60s & '70s. I wish the whole world could hear, feel and LISTEN to every aspect of ALL their songs as I do. The human condition could benefit SO MUCH if this could come true. OOPS, I 'digressed again. Just wanted to thank you as I wanted to post this tune to my friends and YOU came through....BIG TIME! Thanks.
21 and I get it. I get everything all the artists have been trying to tell us over the years. Certain things ring out to you because they tend to be the truth. Just feel the earth around you. Every molecule. Think of the ants and animals and everything that make up this beautiful planet. Idk to me this song just makes sense. It made sense to me before but I get it. I also figured out a lot of the same stuff Tesla did on my own. Spirituality is being killed in this day and age by people who absolutely refuse to believe it even exists. I was one of them but always wanted to have some experience that showed me something was there. For me that was feeling absolutely horrible about burning a Bible with my gf (she felt the same and we started talking religion and stuff). Anyways, it’s all real and not at the same time. It exists in the mind, and the subconscious holds the universes memory and collective knowledge thats culminating in everything you know.
Sad to see the hate so rampant on the internet. I guess it's an easy thing to do... I thought Justin's comment was uncalled for then I see an even worse one by pathfinder55. Lighten up and gimme (and yourselves) a break...
This song changed my life. I loved the Moody Blues from The Days of Future Past all the way to Seventh Sourjorn and I was just getting into acid or LSD for you younger people, and my father was an alcoholic and was physically and and verbally abusive to me as I was growing up and I was an angry and bitter teenager,but after listening to this song over and over again,I realized that I was only hurting myself and then i learned to forgive my father and stopped hating him and I felt much better. Now whenever I get angry at the stupidity of the world I just listen to this song and it clams me right out
oh wow, Brian Timmons.
That is some pretty heavy stuff.
~glad the Moodies pulled you through it.
The Balance (alone) is an EPIC piece.
It’s the way it’s always been. There’s a natural order and humans lost their way with industrialization, and now we are destroying nature. But as you can see, nature is fighting back with great effect.
I hear you, Brian. The Moody Blues helped me through some dark times and I was right there with you during those experimental days. I look to them now to get me through current events. This morning as I was waking up thinking about all the horrors right now from fires to floods to human distress this song came back to me to replace all these thoughts. And I realized this morning that long ago I had listened to this song so many times that I have it memorized.
Wow. Snap!
Food For Thought ( THERE IS NO PAIN LIKE THE PAIN OF A CONFUSED OR CONCERNED PARENT )
I cry literally every time I listen to this...and I listen to it a lot.
Graeme Edge and the late Ray Thomas wrote some of the most wonderful, beautiful words ever when they composed this.
This song, if that is the correct term for it, is THE lesson of life, and sadly, we still have not learned it.
Capismama I couldn't agree more!
Lightbeams to Graeme,Ray,and you Capismama, from a spirit brother in texas,"Watching the world wake up from his-to-ry"! Namaste
God bless you, dear Capismama! 🙏💙
Yes, it’s extremely beautiful and it really has a hold on your feelings and mind. I don’t really know how to put it into words, actually.
Its spooky, though it is probably my favourite song, it never made me cry before but today it did and this was the first comment I read :)
Mike Pinder's voice was golden, and coupled with Edge's poetry they made magic.
And Ray Thomas had a powerful wonderful voice too ...
@@helenarcarvalho He certainly did !
@@helenarcarvalho Credit to Tony Clarke to. The way he mixed the voices of four great singers was brilliant.
I so see myself in this song, I've been a Moody Blues fan since the late 60's and never really understood this song. Now, now I believe that I do. Sixty seven and still learning.
Same here, brother...
Same here.
65 years and I got it now!
I want balance and I know the importance of it. Due to many factors not in sync I am
currently out of balance. In life you need balance.
Same here Sir
RIP, Graeme and Ray. I hope you know how much this song has meant to people, myself included.
it's a deep soul food kind of song, I have loved this song and many of their others as I listened intently as a teenager, I am now 72. I still love and cherish these words.
The enlightened ones.....The Moody blues....The Balance....Just Open Your
'eyes and realize the way it's always been...
This song is about what makes us human. Simply phenomenal.
The most beautiful song ever written
"The unexamined life is not worth living" -- Socrates
My very favorite composition in the entire MB catalog...I think a statement of the collective MB message. It is hard to believe that this wonderful recording was released 52 years ago today. Thanks Graeme, Mike, Ray, Justin, and John.
And we ear... Magnificent perfection ! Thank you for this song.
THIS SONG IS BEYOND A MASTERPIECE IT SAYS ALL WE NEED TO KNOW IN ORDER TO LIVE A HUMBLE PEACEFUL LIFE!
Just open your eyes and realize there is something so much greater than yourself that cannot be described in a popular novel, speech, art piece, song, movie or poem. There is a force outside of our self that would be daft to assume it male or female. This beautiful existence is not by chance. It is not a "big bang". This balance is perfect and to dwell on the negative aspects of nature and our own negative presumptions of morality is only upsetting the balance. Evil must be present to know or understand what good is. Hence the balance. We need this song to echo through our civilizations more than ever.
Correct . The “I am” or, cosmic consciousness.
I adore this song! I adore and love The Moody Blues!!! 💙💙💙 I am gutted that beloved Ray Thomas, and now Graeme Edge have passed. 💔💔 Growing up, they were all my big brothers, and taught me to LOVE! I've always had difficulty finding the BALANCE between the Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, and Psychological; and the Moodies pointed me towards the true paths to Love and Enlightenment. GOD BLESS THE MOODY BLUES, now and during our travels down Eternity Road together, all of them and especially Graeme, Ray, Justin, John, and Mike!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I am with you 100% on all of the good that this band did for you, the same here also.
those of us who heard and understood are still hearing and understanding...life is GREAT
I love this song. This, and *Questions* are my favourite songs on A Question of Balance. The first time I heard *The Balance,* I broke down crying. I felt as though this song was talking about me. :)
+Jason Carpp I almost did too! It is relatable, isn't it?
+George Estremera It is. I've done things over the years that I'm not proud of. And this song *"The Balance",* felt like God was forgiving me for all the things I had done.
Jason Carpp
That kicks ass.
Dudes -- it IS all about forgiveness.... starts with(in) ourselves and radiates out in ever widening circles until it enfolds the whole universe... which is "One Song". Yeah!
I love this song. :)
People who downvoted this song couldn't open their eyes, their mind or their heart. :(
I feel sorry for those who will never understand these concepts.
RIP Graeme Edge. Thank you for your wisdom.
Deep and meaningful. A master piece. The first time I heard it, I got the goose skin and sighted
I haven't heard it in awhile.
And got "the goose skin" at 1:06
and then again at 2:44 when they really let loose.
Pinder on that Mellotron is awesomeness.
I still do every time I hear it!
Thank you Mike Pinder for this truly beautiful song...
Yes, with the mellotron, but Ray Thomas and Graeme Edge wrote this song...
@@helenarcarvalho Pinder read the recitation.
Nitpick: Mike provided the spoken word, but the song was written by Greame Edge and Ray Thomas. Greame almost certainly wrote the words (as the Moodies' resident poet).
Oh man, this is a sermon, delivered with the utmost insight and sincerity. This spiritual outlook has been the basis for my own personal religion for the past 50 years. All other religions that I have investigated seem so contrived by contrast.
Thank you!!! It may take years to learn this, but this is who we are! Much Love!
I was given a copy of "Question Of Balance" when I was 22,33 years (the lifespan of Jesus) ago.Just starting to get my feet wet with metaphysics,I instinctively grasped the truths contained in the lyrics,but didn't completely understand them then.Now I do.To all a happy.peaceful, prosperous and joy-fiiled 2020,with new levels of light being achieved in humanity and on planet earth.............................
Wise man Glenn you know the best music.😊❤
just one of the amazing end cuts in the history of the AOR era, makes what is a good album, a great album.
AOR era?
@@andrew.hamsterdad thanks
lived my life by it
Listen to this and you can see the Lord Jesus right through this song
balance became something paramount to me because of this song. helps shape my life.
This is not a song but a hymn ❤
The Answer to the Question of Balance is compassion. Love this album to this day it has great meaning and moves me deeply. I loved seeing them in concert back in the 70s.
...but the final or supreme answer is Love...
I'm speaking in the Buddhist or Spiritual sense. Which moves me not to quibble about the definition or distinctions between love and compassion but practice both and the same at the moment!
You are right... in Buddhist spirituality it is compassion; in Christian spirituality it is love, which include compassion. In my opinion the Moody Blues and their opus of first seven or eight albums are the greatest artistic achievements within popular culture of 20th century.
Their music is fourfold: melody -- harmony -- rhythm -- lyrics, and as such it often excels many master pieces of classical music. They are completely in accordance with the michaelic Spirit of Time. Some lyrics of theirs recall to the messages or teaching of modern anthroposophically oriented spiritual science...
Well said my " veteran cosmic rocker".
"I'M JUST A SINGER IN A ROCK AND ROLL BAND" !!! (
I’m the same age, and never really heard the words and how profound they are till 2 years ago.
My Moody Blues tribute band just started rehearsing this song when the coronairus pandemic shut us and everyone else down. So bummed as i looked forward to this song more than any others. Just got all the mellotron parts worked out. Aaargh!
If you post that let me know!
@@beagle055 check out our show last January on YT, posted on "IamAVL.com". The Lost Chord - Moody Blues Tribute
Litterally was a life changing moment I first heard this in a trailer in Harrison mi, thks man!
Amazing song. Cannot ever be duplicated 🧡 on this level.
my favorite poem...the secret of life
Kathy Amaya true
What always captured me about this track was Mike Pinder's beautiful, beautiful mellotron strings work behind his own spoken voice (before he adds some strident brass for the sung Middle 8 parts). Especially behind the second verse. It's spellbinding playing of a notoriously difficult instrument, and no one else could achieve what he could with it. When Pinder left, the band (although remaining oustandingly good) lost that element of magic that had made their music so enchanting.
Had a Mellotron in 1975. Yes, it was a bit of a challenge to play. Always breaking down, too. But...THAT SOUND!
Graeme Edge Masterpiece
and Ray Thomas...
Great choice of songs/poems.
Thank you for your effort. This is really for true MB fans.
The Holy Ghost Says "Thank You Beagle" You did a service to all "Being Kind" (Old Word "Humankind") another Word for "I" Care Method in Which, "God Cares for all Creation." This is Only time I'll Speak in Public. YOU MADE HISTORY.
Love this jewel by Graeme
Ray Thomas wrote the music, Graeme Edge the lyrics...
If the Moody Blues don't get into the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame, the whole outfit should be closed...
They didn't induct YES until Squire had died from cancer. They inducted people like Chaka Khan and a bunch of rappers before they inducted Rush. The "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" is a self-serving creation of the Cultural Marxist hipster fools who run Rolling Stone magazine.
I remember a music history teacher, at a conservatory I attended 30 years ago, saying that had he actually listened to Rolling Stone's reviews, he would own the crappiest collection of music on the planet. The whole class laughed, and nobody disagreed.
I agree with you that the Moodys belong in the RRHoF - they should have been inducted 20 years ago - but the thing itself is a sham and a farce, a thinly-veiled "cool kids' club," so at the end of the day, who cares? WE know The Moody Blues' true place in music history. Let the poseurs do as they wish. Pay them no heed. 😎
They are to be inducted this month
Thank you for reminding me of this gem!
Being a Christian I always take it to be Jesus that the song is about
Amen ❤ ✝ ❤
great song from a super group
A masterpeace !
I am not sure what is better the music or the lyrics.... the lyrics.
Sanford Son I'm with you on that one!
Both... music and lyrics....
Meelotron genius,. Just can't replicate those sounds on a synthesizer
Sooo true. I had a mellotron in 1975. sold it because it kept breaking down. I now have "Mike Pinder Presents Mellotron" sampling CD and have sampled it to my virtual sampling software on my laptop. I am playing Mike's mellotron on stage in my Moody Blues tribute show :-)
@@gareebee wow! That is totally awesome. I can imagine the issues with a mellotron breaking down so much going on in those things the fact that you got those samples is really something. Moody Blues are awesome one of my favorite shows that I never get tired of is Isle of Wight 1970. Everybody is on and Heyward never touches an acoustic plays his 335 through the whole show.. I bought question of Balance album as a kid and it' sat on my turntable for months.
...now, if we could just get past this virus pandemic, maybe we can grace the stage again. We still rehearse, hoping to play out again. Working on "The Balance" and "One Step Into The Light". Sublime!
One step into the light gives me chills, great choice
Yes beautiful song ❤
So beautiful, so true... a great spiritual truth this lyrics, as Rudolf Steiner put it: "From Buddha to Christ", that is, from Compassion to Love.
Hey, thank you for adding the lyrics to this song; including the soothing font and the cascading method. It's simple and beautifully done.
Fukn awesome.
Thats such a great song
Greetings, wambligleshga tunkah, I join my heart with yours for total remission of the 'C', complete success of all treatments, restoration of all strength, protection & thriving of all healthy cells, tissues, organs, & glands in your body. May all your health spring back speedily!!
Advanced musical creations that will see us into the future.
beagle055! You da MAN! (woman?) I am such a fan as to almost deify this most AWESOME prog-rock group (it is believed that these boys invented the genre)...but I digress. As I am fighting the big "C" with surgery, hormone and radiation therapies, the lyrics (prayers!?) of the Moody's songs have re-inserted themselves back into the deepest emotional and conscience centers of my conscious mind!! They again sound the same as I initially enjoyed them back in the '60s & '70s. I wish the whole world could hear, feel and LISTEN to every aspect of ALL their songs as I do. The human condition could benefit SO MUCH if this could come true. OOPS, I 'digressed again. Just wanted to thank you as I wanted to post this tune to my friends and YOU came through....BIG TIME! Thanks.
wambligleshga tunkah Best wishes for you
Thank you!!!Beautiful lyrics,Poetry....
and that's a start,
thank you for sharing this.
You did this perfectly. Thank you.
I like to think of this as Jesus's journey to the east.
EXCELLENT !
This is great
Excellent!!!!
Beautiful
beautiful ...
RIP Ray Thomas
Thanks for your service!!!!
Rip mr edge
... and I thank you immensely beagle055! :)
Thanks man, I needed that!
It's about time!
It can take years to attain perfect balance.
21 and I get it. I get everything all the artists have been trying to tell us over the years. Certain things ring out to you because they tend to be the truth. Just feel the earth around you. Every molecule. Think of the ants and animals and everything that make up this beautiful planet. Idk to me this song just makes sense. It made sense to me before but I get it. I also figured out a lot of the same stuff Tesla did on my own. Spirituality is being killed in this day and age by people who absolutely refuse to believe it even exists. I was one of them but always wanted to have some experience that showed me something was there. For me that was feeling absolutely horrible about burning a Bible with my gf (she felt the same and we started talking religion and stuff). Anyways, it’s all real and not at the same time. It exists in the mind, and the subconscious holds the universes memory and collective knowledge thats culminating in everything you know.
Muy linda
thank you
Thank you
Shades of Kahil Gibran ... soon much beauty in humanity, yet we kill each other.
It's pulled from scripture - remember that...
Sad to see the hate so rampant on the internet. I guess it's an easy thing to do... I thought Justin's comment was uncalled for then I see an even worse one by pathfinder55. Lighten up and gimme (and yourselves) a break...
We must ALL learn LOVE...then, we will be ANSWERED.
It does not get any deeper. Does it
YEP LOVE
Oldboy....ishere...tilll..stars..wants..
Who is the person that this song is describing?
You can find the lyrics on RUclips premium. FYI
🤗
😊🐶❤🙏🏻👍❤
Do ya do ya do ya realize?
Where is Melancholy Man?
Was it Jesus, was it Buddha, was it Krishna, or was it Allah? The Moody Blues taught me at a very early age to search for The Light Within.
Perhaps different facets of the same brilliant diamond, Larry...
This song is pretty obviously about Buddha.
Weird song
Trump is the opposite.
Wow so powerful