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    Beautiful Day

    Quote Originally posted by KeepTrying View Post
    I'm working on music that I'm singing as part of a choral group that gives free concerts, and one of the songs is "Somebody to Love," lyrics by Darby Slick and music by Jefferson Airplane.

    I always like to look up the lyrics to any song to find out what they literally are, as well as something about the theme.
    Another piece is “Beautiful Day,” lyrics by Bono and U2 and music by U2. Our version is arranged by Mac Huff.

    It is interesting to read the comments on the website Songfacts dot com about the theme of the song.

    First, the lyrics:

    The heart is a bloom
    Shoots up through the stony ground
    There's no room
    No space to rent in this town

    You're out of luck
    And the reason that you had to care
    The traffic is stuck
    And you're not moving anywhere

    You thought you'd found a friend
    To take you out of this place
    Someone you could lend a hand
    In return for grace

    It's a beautiful day
    Sky falls, you feel like
    It's a beautiful day
    Don't let it get away

    You're on the road
    But you've got no destination
    You're in the mud
    In the maze of her imagination

    You're lovin' this town
    Even if that doesn't ring true
    You've been all over
    And it's been all over you

    It's a beautiful day
    Don't let it get away
    It's a beautiful day

    Touch me
    Take me to that other place
    Teach me
    I know I'm not a hopeless case

    See the world in green and blue
    See China right in front of you
    See the canyons broken by cloud
    See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
    See the Bedouin fires at night
    See the oil fields at first light
    And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
    After the flood all the colors came out

    It was a beautiful day
    Don't let it get away
    Beautiful day

    Touch me
    Take me to that other place
    Reach me
    I know I'm not a hopeless case

    What you don't have you don't need it now
    What you don't know you can feel it somehow
    What you don't have you don't need it now
    Don't need it now
    Was a beautiful day

    Writer/s: BONO U2
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=1039
    The lyrics were inspired by Bono's experience with Jubilee 2000, a benefit urging politicians to drop the Third World Debt. Bono describes the song as about "a man who has lost everything, but finds joy in what he still has."

    http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1039
    With “Somebody to Love,” it was Grace Slick’s voice that had me entralled.

    With “Beautiful Day,” it’s the theme:


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    My husband would give you two big thumbs up. Good song, and one of his favorite bands.

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