Beautiful Day
U2
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All That You Can't Leave Behind
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"Beautiful Day" was the first single from U2's 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind. It 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 won three Grammy Awards in 2001. According to Bono, "Beautiful Day" is about "a man who has lost everything, but finds joy in what he still has." The song is an optimistic anthem that opens with a drum machine and a rhythm sequencer. The verses are relatively quiet before The Edge's guitar and the song's signature riff join in for the choruses. The Edge recorded this song on his Gibson Les Paul Standard and plays the song live with his Gibson Explorer, which helps add the distinctive shimmering, chiming sound that made the band unique when they first debuted in the early 1980s. In an episode of the Sundance Channel's Iconoclast, R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe said "I love that song. I wish I'd written it, and they know I wish I'd written it. It makes me dance, It makes me angry that I didn't write it." Beautiful Day also opens ITV's football show "The Championship", and previously ITV's "Premiership" referring to soccer making a beautiful day. 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. The song hit No.1 on charts in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland and also boosted sales of All That You Can't Leave Behind. Beautiful Day is included on The Best of 1990-2000 and U218 Singles. 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". The song "Beautiful Day", which debuted on the Elevation tour, is one of only four U2 songs to have been played at every concert since their introduction (the other three being "One", "Vertigo", and "City of Blinding Lights").
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[Verse 1] The heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stoney 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 [Chorus] It's a beautiful day Sky falls, you feel like It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away It's a beautiful day Ooh-hoo-hoo [Bridge] Touch me Take me to that other place Teach me I know I'm not a hopeless case [Verse 3] 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 colours came out [Chorus] It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away Beautiful day [Bridge] Touch me Take me to that other place Reach me I know I'm not a hopeless case [Verse 4] 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