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