Candle of life - Moody Blues (1970)

Nights in white satin is usually a no-brainer in choosing Moody's best loved song. I was also impressed with it enough to make me go and listen to everything they'd done. I find now however after a lot of years, that the words do contain an irritant, heart-on-the sleeve sort of thing which doesn't wear well over time. Most of MB's other songs fell into a category best fitting as 'Album' or 'Thematic'. But Candle of life fell out of a juke-box in a Greek island cafe for me one lazy morning. It was the B side of Question of Balance and  I played it over and over. Now its the one that survives above the others like, Tuesday Afternoon, Lovely to see you, Never comes the day and most of the Threshold of a dream album, and the others too numerous to mention.