 In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) [ larger cover art ] |
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Ride, ride my see-saw,
Take this place
On this trip
Just for me.
Ride, take a free ride,
Take my place
Have my seat
It's for free.
I worked like a slave for years,
Sweat so hard just to end my fears.
Not to end my life a poor man,
But by now, I know I should have run.
Run, run my last race,
Take my place
Have this number
Of mine.
Run, run like a fire,
Don't you run in
In the lanes
Run for time.
Left school with a first class pass,
Started work but as second class.
School taught one and one is two.
But right now, that answer just ain't true.
Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah
My world is spinning around,
Everything is lost that I found.
People run, come ride with me,
Let's find another place that's free.
Ride, ride my see-saw,
Take this place
On this trip
Just for me.
Ride, take a free ride,
Take my place
Have my seat
It's for free.
Ride, my see-saw.
Ride, ride, ride, my see-saw.
Ride, my see-saw...
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: May 03, 2013 - 00:12 Just arrived home after a raging party at a local Irish pub, and heard this...cool! RIDE MY SEESAW, all Yin and Yang of it, BABY, YEAH! |
| Zep | Posted: Apr 05, 2013 - 20:06 vandal wrote: Eat your heart out Fleet Foxes. . . Hey now! |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 21:06 Cynaera wrote:  I love 'em, too. "Breathe deep the gathering gloom... watch lights fade from every room..."  Miss you so much, Cynaera... love this song... |
| Johnny-smooth (On my bicycle) | Posted: Mar 01, 2013 - 10:04 Let's follow this with a little alvin Lee and Ten Years After! |
| d48m02h1918 | Posted: Mar 01, 2013 - 10:03 How is this song not rated a perfect 10? Hayward's guitar is amazing to hear....the chorus.....BRILLIANT!!  |
| Kokoloco53 (Southeastern Arizona) | Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 09:27 I think, therefore I am, I think!!!!!?? .....therefore, I am. Don't think, just have all of the Moody Blues albums at your disposal and every once in a few years when you need em most, you got em. My generation was a very lucky generation to have groups like the Moody Blues fill our souls with such variety of spirit. |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 09:22 Great 4-part harmonies, and the guitar break is cool as hell. |
| Bozo (Steeler Penguin Pirate land) | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 13:09 You ain't kiddin': and if you could get a girl to get high with you: nothing better Jeff09 wrote: Moody Blues...some of the best make-out (and more) music ever recorded....  |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 13:05 In high school, I was all over these guys - then rapidly got sick of them. Not really fair, they did some great stuff, this song still sounds good to me 45 years later, including the guitar break! |
| boober (KC,Mo) | Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 13:03 rdo wrote: yeah. and also I learned at a very young age that the angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat. |
| 2tfrut (sw uk) | Posted: Jun 23, 2012 - 14:46 Rockin |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 08:39 It's all about escaping, note the insane laugh. No matter, I escaped many years ago.  |
| Sandy_Cheeks (Minneapolis, MN) | Posted: May 22, 2012 - 08:39 A real tonic. Thanks RP. Om to all ... |
| Sasha2001 (I can see Zabars from my window) | Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 15:12 Bill, you are tearing up with this set right now - keep it up! |
| SanFranGayMan (San Francisco) | Posted: Mar 19, 2012 - 22:24 paulmack wrote: It's still profound-we just got old, jaded and had the hope slapped out of us. Try to remember why it was profound then and think about what changed. |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 10:39 UltraNurd wrote: In general (and I am not a sociologist), if you're indifferent, or only mildly positive or negative, there's little motivation to take the effort to express your opinion (even when it's so easy on the intersnaps). On top of that, even if you do express an opinion, you're less likely to use superlatives, hyperbole, and other extreme language to make your point unless you're on an extreme of one of the axes. You thus end up with a zipfian where something on the order of less than 10% of the listeners contribute more than 90% of the comments, and of those that do bother to comment, less than 10% of them say anything in a particularly riled up way. (The numbers are made up for the purposes of illustrating the Long Tail, but depending on the coefficients for a given forum, are probably roughly accurate.) yeah. and also I learned at a very young age that the angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat. |
| k-man (SCruz, CA) | Posted: Dec 15, 2011 - 17:07 Maybe seems a bit outdated now (after listening to this MANY times during High school). But at the time, this was the shiz. Go MB... |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Dec 15, 2011 - 17:06 Eat your heart out Fleet Foxes. . . |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 10:58 paulmack wrote: Actually, I remember getting all hung up in the Moodies while in high school but then suddenly finding virtually all of it pretentious and silly even then. Except a few songs - including this one. I hadn't heard this one in a long time but it had popped into my head just last week and made a mental note to get it from iTunes. And here it is.... Cynaera wrote: I love 'em, too. "Breathe deep the gathering gloom... watch lights fade from every room..." Baby_M wrote: That's the Moodies for you. Excellent music, excellent musicianship, poetry that sounded profound at the time but pretentious or silly today—that's why I love them so. |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 10:56 Actually, I remember getting all hung up in the Moodies while in high school but then suddenly finding virtually all of it pretentious and silly even then. Except a few songs - including this one. Cynaera wrote: I love 'em, too. "Breathe deep the gathering gloom... watch lights fade from every room..." Baby_M wrote: That's the Moodies for you. Excellent music, excellent musicianship, poetry that sounded profound at the time but pretentious or silly today—that's why I love them so. |
| iTuner | Posted: Sep 11, 2011 - 22:40 Was going to hate on this song, but you know, life is short and the Moody Blues are one of the better examples of their era. |
| Cynaera (Kenneth's Frequency) | Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 13:38 Baby_M wrote: That's the Moodies for you. Excellent music, excellent musicianship, poetry that sounded profound at the time but pretentious or silly today—that's why I love them so. I love 'em, too. "Breathe deep the gathering gloom... watch lights fade from every room..." |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 13:36 Bloody moos! |
| quesarah (Minneapolis, MN) | Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 13:34 The opening "alert" always made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Of the song, I mean. Sort of. |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 17:40 Ride my "see-saw"; yah, baby!  |
| NickDanger (in absentia) | Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 13:17 I think every Moody Blues concert I saw ended with this song. I say "I think" for a reason. I think I was at the concerts... or maybe I just imagined it. Thinking is the best way to travel. |
| PFM (Out on a limb) | Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 12:26 daedalus wrote: This song and to some extent the whole album was inspired by Timothy Leary who passed away this week... anabel wrote: actually he died in 1996. I heard he had just Turned On, Tuned In and Dropped Out and wasn't really dead the first time. |
| anabel | Posted: Dec 02, 2010 - 14:15 daedalus wrote: This song and to some extent the whole album was inspired by Timothy Leary who passed away this week... actually he died in 1996. |
| roulleau | Posted: Dec 02, 2010 - 14:15 Jeff09 wrote: Moody Blues...some of the best make-out (and more) music ever recorded.... soulcollision wrote: bah? Should've said: "barf." |
| daedalus (Dubai and France) | Posted: Oct 31, 2010 - 22:03 This song and to some extent the whole album was inspired by Timothy Leary who passed away this week... |
| goldenfiddle | Posted: Sep 30, 2010 - 06:20 Drop-kick my morning, thanks! |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jun 26, 2010 - 09:46 randerse10 wrote: Love it! But somehow, the opening bit of poetry sounds like a Dr. Seuss book. :D It's nowhere near as well-written or profound as just about anything by Theodor Seuss Geisel, but it is quite a good song. |
| soulcollision (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 13:56 Jeff09 wrote: Moody Blues...some of the best make-out (and more) music ever recorded.... bah? |
| nalle (Malmo, Sweden) | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 13:49 Great song and a great album cover. |
| lwilkinson (North Am-Home of the Last of the Rugged Individualists) | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 13:49 lwilkinson wrote: HEAD PHONES........HEAD PHONES...........MUST FIND HEAD PHONES ....................  Ditto ............ Ditto ..............Ditto ..................... |
| Jeff09 (Gainesville, Florida USA) | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 13:49 Moody Blues...some of the best make-out (and more) music ever recorded.... |
| Bosami (Deep in the heart of nowhere) | Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 05:51 Awesome album cover. I remember being completely fascinated with it. Great song - great record. |
| shawshank (Maryland) | Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 05:49 The guy in the beginning sounds like my pops! Geez...  |
| Baby_M (a 100-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 05:49 randerse10 wrote: Love it! But somehow, the opening bit of poetry sounds like a Dr. Seuss book. :D That's the Moodies for you. Excellent music, excellent musicianship, poetry that sounded profound at the time but pretentious or silly today—that's why I love them so. |
| Eveland (Middle of the Pacific) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 15:34 Just awesome. Takes me back in time. |
| Rotterdam | Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 05:51 copymonkey wrote: Thanks for the lesson foppy. I'll talk to you about it later in 'Pompous Ass' class, okay? Dear copymonkey. Your comment is really rude. And really funny. Gosh, I feel so conflicted. |
| randerse10 | Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 05:49 Love it! But somehow, the opening bit of poetry sounds like a Dr. Seuss book. :D |
| casey1024 (Between past & future...) | Posted: Jan 19, 2010 - 05:48 COMPLETELY agree w/you SanFranGayMan!! |
| SanFranGayMan (San Francisco) | Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 20:04 Geez folks, chill already. Some like a song, some don't. No need for anyone to be judgmental as to why "everyone" did or did not like a particular song/decade. It's personal taste, period. Casting one's opinion as the end all is a bit of a superior attitude. Comment, but don't castigate. It's just music-deal! |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 20:00 hippiechick wrote:  In college we used to jump up and down on the beds to this song This song is very groovy... love it... |
| aelfheld | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 14:27 copymonkey wrote: Thanks for the lesson foppy. I'll talk to you about it later in 'Pompous Ass' class, okay? Sorry that your education is so sketchy. As I'm not the one telling you that you're in the wrong place, I doubt I'll be joining you in your 'class'. |
| copymonkey (in the northeast, but not near anywhere cool) | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 10:41 aelfheld wrote: Actually, if you knew anything about statistics, you'd realise that I rarely rate songs and generally the most execrable of those. Oh, by the way, the Moody Blues were quite popular in the 1970's. I can't really be bothered to determine the exact point in time a particular bit of their brand of dreck was produced. Thanks for the lesson foppy. I'll talk to you about it later in 'Pompous Ass' class, okay? |
| aelfheld | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 10:28 darrenwwwa wrote: aelfheld wrote: The Moody Blues - reminding us of why we so despised the 70's. It seems there are a lot of negative comments on here. Most are posted by a very small number of people (look at the rating chart - very few dislike this song). Why is it that this type of small minority are always the loudest? When in reality they are insignificant. 50 million Frenchman can be wrong. |
| aelfheld | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 10:25 musickat wrote: I don't know about the rest of you... but I need to listen to a song 2-3 times before I really know if I like it or not. rarely am I blown away the first time. It is usually the best stuff that grows on you after listening a few times. And if it is really good then it continues to grow each time you listen until you finally grow tired of it and move on to something else. Perhaps these people that do not appreciate the music of the 60-70's have not really taken the time to listen to it. Your right, their loss. anotherlistener wrote: Yet another excellent song from yet another fantastic 60's/70's group. Your inability to appreciate them is your loss, not ours, or theirs. It might surprise you to realise that I heard much of the music of the 1960's and 1970's when it was released. A good portion of the music from that time - most of which, thankfully, does not get airtime - was at best mediocre and has not improved one whit in the intervening years. The same can be said of the following decades. |
| aelfheld | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 10:17 copymonkey wrote: 68% of your ratings of RP songs are 1s & 2s. Son, I think you might be in the wrong place. Oh,by the way—you may notice that, pretty prominently displayed in the song and album info for this track, you'll find the year of its release.....1968. And your point was...? Actually, if you knew anything about statistics, you'd realise that I rarely rate songs and generally the most execrable of those. Oh, by the way, the Moody Blues were quite popular in the 1970's. I can't really be bothered to determine the exact point in time a particular bit of their brand of dreck was produced. |