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"Beautiful Day"

"The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground

But 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

the sky falls and 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 love this town even if it doesn't ring true

You've been all over it 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 the 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

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

It's a beautiful day"

 

This one being a U2 reference (and I do like that song), it's different in that all the lyrics are provided there, not just the chorus.

 

I've read it's about someone who loses absolutely everything, but instead of despairing, he goes out to take on the world in full positivity, in the act of moving on. He finds absolute joy in what he still has.

 

Ever since the sun came up, it's what I've been all about. Forgetting the past and leaving what I can't fix be. I'm moving onward. I've been grateful to Duncan & Fred, those two who I am great friends with, and I will spend as much time with them as possible, as I find joy in that I still have them - and what life has to give. A lot of the lyrics really reflect my mistakes really accurately and I really do like the song. What's gone is gone. Nothing I can do about it but leave it behind.

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Taken on April 19, 2010