Written by Justin Hayward when he was 19.

Was released in 1967 as part of the Moody Blues classic concept album Days of Future Passed.

This is the last song of the concept album, which follows the course of a day, jumping between people and places to capture the typical day. The song documents the heightened emotions and intimacy of dusk/early night-time. The second half, the Late Lament, completes the cycle of the day mimicking the opening monologue and invoking the privacy that the late-night embodies.

The song was released as a single multiple times

in different versions and lengths.

The “London Festival Orchestra”, played the introduction to the song. The orchestra never really existed. It was a name given to the gathering of musicians when the album was put together.

Mike Pinder’s Mellotron MKII sampler provided the orchestral sounds in the song’s main body.