The Moondance essays – Track 3 Side 2 – Brand New Day

This idea sprung from here.

Track 1 Side 1 - And It Stoned Me is here.
Track 2 Side 1 - Moondance is here.
Track 3 Side 1 - Crazy Love is here.
Track 4 Side 1 - Caravan is here.
Track 5 Side 1 - Into the Mystic is here.
Track 1 Side 2 - Come Running is here.
Track 2 Side 2 - These Dreams of You is here.

When all the dark clouds roll away
And the sun begins to shine
I see my freedom from across the way
And it comes right in on time

--Brand New Day

The song is immediately gorgeous. Absolutely from the first note. It's life affirming. It's exactly what you need when you need something and aren't sure what that something is. Life has worn you to an absolute nub. The pillow your head is buried under is going to be your final resting place. Goodbye cruel world and all of that. And then that one tinkling piano note....announcing that it just might be worth pulling the curtains back one more time. "Because "Here Comes the Sun" ALMOST gets you, but you've always resisted its charms out of Beatle-spite. But "Brand New Day"? Resistance is futile. The song should be piped into elevators and hospital corridors and cop cars. The song should be the national anthem for those of us wrestling with the world's unrelenting shittness. The song could stop wars before they start.

How about that, eh? I may have woken up a bit hyperbolic today, but so what. It beats not waking up at all.