Eternity Road (song)

"Eternity Road"
Song by The Moody Blues
from the album To Our Children's Children's Children
Released 21 November 1969
Recorded May–September 1969
Genre Progressive rock
Length 4:17
Label Threshold
Songwriter(s) Ray Thomas
Producer(s) Tony Clarke
To Our Children's Children's Children track listing
Side one
  1. "Higher and Higher"
  2. "Eyes of a Child I"
  3. "Floating"
  4. "Eyes of a Child II"
  5. "I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Hundred"
  6. "Beyond"
  7. "Out and In"
Side two
  1. "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)"
  2. "Eternity Road"
  3. "Candle of Life"
  4. "Sun Is Still Shining"
  5. "I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Million"
  6. "Watching and Waiting"

"Eternity Road" is a song by the band The Moody Blues from their 1969 album To Our Children's Children's Children, a concept album about space travel. Written by band member Ray Thomas, "Eternity Road" is a slightly upbeat song, and its lyrics describe the vast "eternity" of space as a continuing road, and how one doesn't know what lies ahead on it.

Background

Interviewed by Jason Barnard, for website thestrangebrew.co.uk in 2014, Thomas said:

I was born in 1941 and during the war I was taken down the air raid shelter. There was our family and two other families who were our neighbours. Sometimes the Luftwaffe were all over us before even the sirens came off. Every night my grandmother would go "Hark" and her friend Mrs Ackland, next-door, would go "Listen". Mrs James lived on the other side would then go "Here he comes." So they became known as "Hark", "Listen" and "Here he comes." So that stuck in my head so that’s how I started "Eternity Road".[1]

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ http://thestrangebrew.co.uk/articles/ray-thomas-the-moody-blues/
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