U2-Beautiful Day
U2-Beautiful Day
While we continue to study the Manhattan Project like instructions that YouTube sent us to fix our YouTube embedded player, we'll just leave you with the link to this weeks video. It's found in red above.
Tonight's song, is one of those grand anthems that U2 are best known for. Released after what seemed like the groups mid life crisis of Zooropa and Pop.
Beautiful Day released in 2000, returned the group to what it does best, strong anthemic driving rock and poetic lyrics. One of the most revered of bands to ever come out of Ireland and dominate the music scene over the last 26 years, U2 entered the new millenium more involved than ever.
Long the masters of the music video, the imagery in this one is spectacular, fast cuts of the band exchanged with images from an airport where travelers come and go, meeting and leaving a snapshot of life in a day.
The song builds in power as the music drives it home, the groups dynamic never more in synch since the Joshua Tree days.
The lyrics are typical of the Bono genre; "
"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"
"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 and it’s been all over you"
"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.
You don’t need it now, you don’t need it now, Beautiful day "
You listen time and time again and never grow weary of the words nor the sound.
You study the lyrics, feel the music and get lost in it's zeal.
It's a beautiful day.
A most uplifting song!
Just watch out for the planes !
Group--U2
CD--All That You Can't leave behind
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