Beautiful Day -- U2

The heart is a bloom, shoots up through 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 and you're not movin' 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,  The sky falls and 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 love, 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
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth  After the flood all the colours came out
It was a beautiful day  Don't let it get away  A 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   It was a beautiful day                                                 (sing365)

The lyrics were inspired by Bono's experience with Jubilee 2000, a benefit urging politicians to drop the Third World Debt.  (songfacts)

Jubilee 2000 was an international coalition movement in over 40 countries that called for cancellation of third world debt by the year 2000. This movement coincided with the Great Jubilee, the celebration of the year 2000 in the Catholic Church. From early 2001, Jubilee 2000 split into an array of organisations around the world                                        (wikipedia)