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This Is The Day
(The The cover)

Every new year at Songfight.org, some of us trade cover requests. This year I got Pumpkin Buzzard's list:

"Dragonaut" by Sleep
"Raw Hide" by Ol' Dirty Bastard
"This is the Day" by The The
"Hollywood Babylon" by The Misfits

So, it was This Is The Day...and I produced it during a rather intense time, so maybe it muddier than it should be. But it's always interesting to cover songs you don't know and see what emerges...

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"This is the Day"

Well... you didn't wake up this morning,
'cause you didn't go to bed.
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red.
The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off.

You've been reading some old letters.
You smile and think how much you've changed.
All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days.

You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes.
You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky.
This is the day your life will surely change.
This is the day when things fall into place.

You could've done anything, if you'd wanted.
And all your friends and family think that you're lucky.
But the side of you they'll never see
Is when you're left alone with the memories
That hold your life together like -- GLUE

You pull back the curtains, and the sun burns into your eyes,
You watch a plane flying across a clear blue sky.
This is the day your life will surely change.
This is the day when things fall into place.

This is the day your life will surely change...

December 31, 2005 03:23 PM

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