Beautiful Day是一首非常了不起的歌曲,訴說一個哀到家的人,徬徨無助地在城市中四處碰壁踢鐵板踩釘子,可是卻還能夠珍惜身邊美好的事物。
Beautiful Day帶給了許多面臨生活挫折不如意的人們希望。不以物喜,不以已悲,平常心是道。相由心生,美好的一天,是由美好的心創造的。應無所住而生其心,日日是好日。
Beautiful Day是U2在2000年推出的專輯All That You Can't Leave Behind中的第一首歌,也是該張專輯中最受歡迎的歌,還一舉拿下三座2001年葛萊美大獎(Grammy Awards):Record of the Year、Song of the Year和Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal。All That You Can't Leave Behind在2002年拿下葛萊美獎Best Rock Album,專輯中的其他歌曲如Walk On、Elevation和Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get out Of分別拿下同年葛萊美獎的Record of the Year、Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal和Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal !
All That You Can't Leave Behind本身就是一個從低潮走向高峰的經典。U2在90年代初推出超級成功的Achtung Baby,可是在90年代末推出的Pop卻慘遭滑鐵盧,讓許多樂迷大失所望,許多樂評也斷定U2江郎才盡了,沒想到All That You Can't Leave Behind讓樂評大跌眼鏡,也讓U2東山再起。
Beautiful Day也收錄在在精選輯U218 Singles和The Best of 1990 -2000中。
Beautiful Day的歌詞:
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 love 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
延伸閱讀:
The Sky of Gene - U2
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