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Beautiful Day
Vocabulary from U2: 'Beautiful Day'.
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
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 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 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, 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 clouds
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin 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 colors came out
It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
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
Was a beautiful day
Vocabulary
the
Determinerðə
the definite article
The sun is hot.
Used before a noun to refer to a specific thing already known or mentioned.
heart
Nounhɑrt
the center of a person's thoughts and emotions
She followed her heart.
Commonly used to represent feelings, especially love or passion, as opposed to pure logic or reason.
is
Verbɪz
he/she/it form of be
She is my best friend.
Used with singular third-person subjects like 'he', 'she', 'it', or a singular noun.
a
Determinerə
a
Give me a pen.
An indefinite article used before a noun.
bloom
Nounbluːm
a flower; the state or period of flowering; a fresh healthy look
The bloom opened after the rain.
This sentence uses the countable flower sense. The phrase in bloom refers to plants that are flowering.
shoot up
Verbʃuːt ʌp
to rise very quickly; also to grow fast, inject a drug, or damage something with gunfire
Rent can shoot up after a new station opens nearby.
In prices, numbers, and measurements, this phrasal verb means a sudden sharp increase. Other senses can involve drugs or gunfire, so context matters.
through
Prepositionθɹu
moving in one side and out of the other
They walked through the forest.
Used when moving from one end or side of an opening, passage, or area to the other.
stony
Adjectiveˈstoʊni
covered with stones; hard, cold, or showing little emotion
The stony path hurts our feet after rain.
For places, it means full of stones. For faces, silence, or reactions, it means cold and unemotional.
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