Beautiful Day (Live from Slane Castle, Ireland, 1 September 2001) Lyrics

The heart is a bloom
That shoots up through the 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
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
It feels like a beautiful day

You're on the road
But you got no destination
You're in the mind
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
Let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
You can teach me, Lord
I know I'm not a hopeless case
Yeah, yeah, yeah

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by a cloud
See the tuna fleet clearing the sea out
See the pavement 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

It was a beautiful day
Let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me, touch me now
Take me to that other place
You can teach me, Lord
I know I'm not a hopeless case

'Cause 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
Beautiful day

Oh

Gold, gold, golden snow
Gold, gold, golden snow
Gold, beautiful gold
Gold, beautiful gold
Beautiful gold
Beautiful gold