anonymous September 5th, 2008 06:31PM  
I see "Beautiful Day" as a song about hope. The lines "See the bird with a leaf in her mouth/After the flood all the colors came out" refer to the bird and rainbow mentioned in the Book of Genesis (first book in the Bible) in its narrative regarding the flood. The bird, returning to Noah's Ark with a leaf, signaled that the flood waters had recede, while the rainbow was placed in the sky by God as a promise that He would not cover the Earth with a flood a second time.

BigBob February 11th, 2009 06:06AM  
This is a real song of hope. It expresses our capacity for love, (the heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground), but that there are times when it is too much and we are emotionally full. We can feel trapped and unable to move forwards.

We all have an amazing capacity to make progress, to look for hope and beauty in the world. It is our choice how we interpret, reflect on and focus upon what is around us. Do we choose to look for and build our lives upon the beauty in this world or on the damage which our human race is capable of inflicting.

The reference to the dove is so uplifting. There is an end to the darkness, to this flood of our creation, available to us all. We have all we need to make it a beautiful day. It is a Beautiful Day.

kolocow March 28th, 2009 08:21PM  
Its their tribute to Aha's 'The Sun always shines on TV'. In that respects its about the potential shallowness of that which appears to be aesthetically beautiful. Harmful things can have the appearance of beauty, but we have to be real and not have rose tinted glasses Hope is through the lens of the interpreter, but the challenge for all of us is to interpret things in a way that matters and save the planet. The sun always shines on TV, but TV is not real life.