# Help me ID this song

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/261230
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 24, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/261230 "2004-08-24T05:33:13Z")
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### Author: ![lindarielle13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@lindarielle13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindarielle13)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/261230/1 "2004-08-24T05:33:13Z")

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I was listening to the radio while doing homework, and this song came on that I hadn’t heard before that I really liked, but they never said what it was. I can’t remember the exact lyrics, but the beginning was a man talking something like “the sight of a touch and the taste of a sound” and “hearing the grass grow” then it kind of went into semi-maniacal laughter, then the actual singing started.

It was on the classic rock station, if that helps. Thanks.

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### Author: ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/261230/2 "2004-08-24T05:36:39Z")

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Didn’t sound familiar to me either, but Google was helpful. If these lyrics are familiar, it’s [Departure, by the Moody Blues.](http://www.webwriter.f2s.com/moody/lyrics/isotlc.htm)

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### Author: ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-song/261230/3 "2004-08-24T12:40:57Z")

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That’d be my answer as well. The laughter always bothered me because the Moodys always seemed to be so “together” and the laugh was indeed a tad on the hysterical side. Not really joyous at all.

Careful there, **lindarielle13**. You could easily get hooked on Moody Blues. Mix a little sandalwood incense in thereand you’ll then proceed to wander off into the woods, strip naked and become a student of Nature Magic. Lemme know when your ready to go–I’ve about had it with the the real world myself.