Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues, The (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Nights In White Satin (Moody Blues, The, 1967-1968, 1972). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-04-14. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Nights In White Satin," written by vocalist and guitarist Justin Hayward, was the Moody Blues' second top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and their highest ranked single climbing to #2 on the chart in 1972, although it was originally released in 1968 (Whitburn, 2013). Hayward claimed that he was given a set of white satin sheets and that was the spark for the song. During a 2008 interview for the Daily Express Saturday, Hayward said "I wrote our most famous song, 'Nights in White Satin' when I was 19. It was a series of random thoughts and was quite autobiographical. It was a very emotional time as I was at the end of one big love affair and the start of another. A lot of that came out in the song" (May 3, 2008). "Nights In White Satin" was recorded for their second album "Days of Future Past" in 1967 (Whitburn, 2006). Hayward revealed his favorite cover version of the song to songfacts.com: Bettye LaVette's version, which is found on her 2010 release "Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook" (2022).

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Lyrics:

Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I've written
Never meaning to send

Beauty I'd always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say any more

'Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you

Gazing at people, some hand in hand
Just what I'm going through they can't understand
Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend
Just what you want to be, you will be in the end

And I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you
Oh how I love you

Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I've written
Never meaning to send

Beauty I've always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can't say any more

'Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you
Oh how I love you
'Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how I love you
Oh how I love you