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Happy Day Lyrics
In...my...sensations
I believe that I...was
born with the things that I know
I want...to talk...
Like ev'ry
Before I decide what to do
And I fell all over and I
couldn't stand up
I can't be critical
I can't won't stop
Such a happy day
for me
Bring a happy day
to me
Send a happy day
to me
And a happy day
came to me come to me here it come...
I'm...only...looking
Feel like my heart
has a will of it's own
I feel...feel nice inside
right here
And now it's...summer again
The story that I told
The story I made up
I was foolin' around but I
can't won't stop
Such a happy day
for me
Bring a happy day
to me
Send a happy day
to me
And a happy day
come to me, come to me, here it come...
This...boy...is in motion
Some density
moved right beside me
I want
My sentence
Right here
But now I'm far away
A sign was given but
many years have passed
Cost a little bit to love you but I
won't can't stop
Such a happy day
for me
Bring a happy day
to me
Send a happy day
to me
And a happy day
came to me come to me here it come...
It's alright
I believe that I...was
born with the things that I know
I want...to talk...
Like ev'ry
Before I decide what to do
couldn't stand up
I can't be critical
I can't won't stop
Such a happy day
for me
Bring a happy day
to me
Send a happy day
to me
And a happy day
came to me come to me here it come...
Feel like my heart
has a will of it's own
I feel...feel nice inside
right here
And now it's...summer again
The story I made up
I was foolin' around but I
can't won't stop
Such a happy day
for me
Bring a happy day
to me
Send a happy day
to me
And a happy day
come to me, come to me, here it come...
Some density
moved right beside me
I want
My sentence
Right here
But now I'm far away
many years have passed
Cost a little bit to love you but I
won't can't stop
Such a happy day
for me
Bring a happy day
to me
Send a happy day
to me
And a happy day
came to me come to me here it come...
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I don't have a clue about the lyrics, but this song calms me down...
College music!
College music!
"I believe that I...was born with the things that I know"
"I believe that I...was born with the things that I know"
This line refers, I believe, to Plato's philosophy that people are born knowing what they know and simply need to recognize the Forms. See The Myth of the Cave (from Plato's *Republic+) for details.
This line refers, I believe, to Plato's philosophy that people are born knowing what they know and simply need to recognize the Forms. See The Myth of the Cave (from Plato's *Republic+) for details.
And that leads to a "happy day"? hehe I'm seriously asking it, no joke here.
And that leads to a "happy day"? hehe I'm seriously asking it, no joke here.
my thought, if you ever come back to this page:
my thought, if you ever come back to this page:
so that idealistic belief is about capital-t Truth being there and humans being somewhat aware of a nearly magical universality that touches all people's hearts and creates the meaning in all people's minds (though I can't promise that's Plato to a tee...).
so that idealistic belief is about capital-t Truth being there and humans being somewhat aware of a nearly magical universality that touches all people's hearts and creates the meaning in all people's minds (though I can't promise that's Plato to a tee...).
anyway, my guess is that Byrne thinks that's bullshit. the song's narrator says he believes that his mind's thoughts and the speech that comes out all correspond to the same exact meanings all people refer to and find to be true: happiness, him talking about his...
anyway, my guess is that Byrne thinks that's bullshit. the song's narrator says he believes that his mind's thoughts and the speech that comes out all correspond to the same exact meanings all people refer to and find to be true: happiness, him talking about his the will of his heart leading him, etc. it's all a nice way to remove the discomfort of being isolated in your head and just figuring things out to communicate and feel.
I think most of their songs that feature the idea of love (and a great many do) muse over how love doesn't exist, but the masses come to grasp this idea as real, and the individuals in that mass are really just deluding themselves into thinking that so that they can belong to the mass.
"Here I am..."
rambles aside, "bring that happy day to me"...
rambles aside, "bring that happy day to me"...
everyone has the idea of a happy day. you don't even have to be absorbing movies and fairy tales for that one. it suggests a very cynical or even depressed Byrne, but I'd say he's grouping that idea of a happy day with those non-realistc/idealistic things that everyone is eager to claim they experience but which might not appear to the man who believes in Forms/etc like a Santa Claus or something and waits and waits for it. "The story that I told/The story I made up" the...
everyone has the idea of a happy day. you don't even have to be absorbing movies and fairy tales for that one. it suggests a very cynical or even depressed Byrne, but I'd say he's grouping that idea of a happy day with those non-realistc/idealistic things that everyone is eager to claim they experience but which might not appear to the man who believes in Forms/etc like a Santa Claus or something and waits and waits for it. "The story that I told/The story I made up" the narrator might just delude himself into believing he does, I dunno.
I think this may be one of David Byrne's few love songs that are actually about him falling in love, rather than him just pondering or criticizing love.
This song is simply about what it's like to be very happy, to have a happy summer day.