Listen To Justin Hayward’s New Folky Song “Living For Love”

Justin Hayward revisits the virtue of youth with his new single, “Living For Love.” Listen to the song below.

The Moody Blues singer/lead guitarist explained the meaning behind his newly-released track on his website. “I’m one of a generation that as teenagers if we were lucky, were living just for love; with the most wonderful music, freedom and optimism,” he wrote. “We didn’t really understand at the time, but I have to celebrate those days now, while we are still here, and we remember.”

Preceding Hayward’s September 11th launching of his U.K. tour, the Voice of the Moody Blues, comes this single, recorded earlier in 2022 with Alberto Parodi in Italy. The release of “Living for Love” follows the songwriter’s 2016 EP, “One Summer Day/My Juliette.” Since 2013’s Spirits of the Western Sky, the singer had not issued a studio album.

The Moody Blues, however, have been inactive since 2018.

 

Sing along with the song’s lyrics below.

“Living For Love”

Walking through the streets we knew

I felt that you were near

I walked on to a quiet place

The better I could hear

 

I stopped and knew that you were there

I didn’t turn to see

I felt that if I did my dear

The spell would break on me

 

I’m driving though the land we knew

To find that sacred ground

Where moonlight on the innocence

Wildest dreams were found

 

We lay there all the break of day

Lovers me and you

I had to give my heart away

What else could I do?

 

Love for us was living

Dreams that we were dreaming

Life was just beginning

Love that we were living

 

Like ghosts that haunt the mansions where

Their hidden treasures lay

I know we’ll be together on

That perfumed sultry day

 

Aligned in true magnificence

The moon and stars and sun

The cards, the cups, the portents tell

When all is said and done

 

I know that we’re the lucky ones

Like angels we can fly

In days of future symphonies

The golden years went by

 

The splendour of the ancient @mes

Once was bourne to me

But we were so in love back then

We simply couldn’t see

 

That love for us was living

Dreams that we were dreaming

Life was jus beginning

Love that we were living

I’m driving through the land we knew

To find that sacred ground

Where moonlight on the innocent

Wildest Dreams were found

We lay there all the break of day

Lovers me and you

I had to give my heart away

What else could I do?

Cos love for us was living

Dreams that we were dreaming

Life was just beginning

Love that we were living