U2 - Beautiful Day

Beautiful Day by U2, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“Beautiful Day” was the first single from U2’s 2000 album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind.

U2 - Beautiful Day Video

U2 - Beautiful Day 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 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

U2 - Beautiful Day Review and Song Info

“Beautiful Day” is the most known track on the All That You Can’t Leave Behind album, and has been regarded as one of U2’s most famous songs.

“Beautiful Day” was a commercial success, helping launch the album to multi-platinum status, and is one of U2’s biggest hits to date.
It was their fourth #1 single in the UK and was #1 for a week in Australia.
The song peaked at #21 in the US, the band’s highest position since “Discotheque” in 1997.

The song’s video showed the band walking around in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle International Airport, with scenes of the band playing on a runway interspliced with large jets taking off and landing overhead.

The song won three Grammys in 2001: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Released October 9, 2000
Recorded HQ, Windmill Lane Studios, Westland Studios and Totally Wired in Dublin, and South of France
Genre Rock
Length 4:08
Label Island
Producer Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno with additional production by Steve Lillywhite

source wikipedia.org

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