Life In Song #335, (It’s A) Beautiful Day, composed 9/11/2003
2021 Music Video and Full Audio Arrangement
Solo Acoustic Version from Eye on the Horizon CD
About This Song:
It was a beautiful day in September of 2003. I had just returned from an intensive NLP Training program that had me thinking I’d have success right out of the box in my first month back. And Nothing was working. I’d done a speaking engagement at a local rotary club. And some of the answers on the “feedback sandwich card were devastating to me.
Q:What did I do well? A: “Nothing”
Q: What could I do better? A: “Not speak at all”
Q: An over all Positive comment? A: “Don’t quit your day job”
Considering I’d stepped in at the last minute because their other speaker cancelled it hit me hard. It was also just a few weeks into my 2nd marriage and something was not right. I could feel things starting to come apart and I didn’t know what to do.
I was coming apart. I was depressed, anxious, frustrated. All the things I’d studied NLP to “heal.”
Agitated and freaking out, I finally went out to the back yard and started. cleaning out the garden shed. It was a mess of piled junk and broken garden tools.
Somehow that simple physical activity with it’s clear progress dispelled the mood.
Later that weekend we were invited to a 50th birthday party and each guest was asked to bring a poem or a song, a craft or something we’d grown or discovered on a walk instead of “presents.”
This song came through and is always running through my head when I’m able to surface from my own “problems” enough to see them as “opportunities”
Thanks for listening! May you have a Beautiful Day today and every day!!!
– Mark 07/29/2021
Lyrics:
Beautiful Day
Song #335 | composed 9/11/2003 | Recorded June-July 2021
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day to watch birds fly
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day to be your friend
It’s a beautiful day
It’s the kind of day you never want to end
It’s a beautiful day, its’ a beautiful day, it’s a beautiful day
Look over your shoulder and see
Just how far you have come
From where you used to be
Look up ahead in the distance
The future is bright
And don’t you just want to dance?
It’s a beautiful day to want to dance
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day to take a chance
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day to celebrate
It’s a beautiful day
It’s the kind of day you commemorate
It’s a beautiful day, its’ a beautiful day, it’s a beautiful day
Remember when you were young
And thought that you knew?
Now you know that you don’t know
Now graced with abundance of years
Full of laughter, some tears
And the love that always grows
It’s a beautiful day to grow your love
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day to be a “dove”
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day to eat birthday cake
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a day to remember there are no mistakes
It’s a beautiful day, its’ a beautiful day, it’s a beautiful day
Look over your shoulder and see
Just how far you have come
From where you used to be
Remember when you were young
And thought that you knew?
Now you know that you don’t know
Instrumental
Look over your shoulder and see
Just how far you have come
From where you used to be
Remember when you were young
And thought that you knew?
Now you know that you don’t know
It’s a beautiful day to be alive
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day to watch birds fly
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day to be your friend
It’s a beautiful day
It’s the kind of day you never want to end
It’s a beautiful day, its’ a beautiful day, it’s a beautiful day
Copyright 2003-2021 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission
credits
released July 29, 2021
All Instruments played by Mark Shepard