Soul Shiny Day

Story Behind The Song

Inspired by a sunny bike ride in Madison.

Song Description

"Soul Shiny Day" continues the shift away from disco and into older R&B pop and gospel. This song opens with a riff from Miles Davis' Bitches' Brew and takes obvious cues from Jackson Five's "ABC" and "I Want You Back," modernized with Chicago-style chords and horns and sung in a flowing jam-band style by its writer, Jim Yockey. Like the first two songs, this song is about joy in movement (this time, a bike ride in a Madison neighborhood) and religious-like ecstasy. Yockey, VO5's percussionist, studied religious themes in world music as a PhD student at Berkeley. One word in the song "Chabas" ("chabas jumping in the puddle") is mysterious, referring perhaps to children from a Paul Chabas oil painting or a type of amphibian.

Song Length 3:10 Genre R & B - Soul, R & B - Contemporary
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Joyful, In High Spirits Subject Joy, Spirituality
Similar Artists Michael Jackson Language English

Lyrics

When I wake in the morning and my soul is a flowin
Lookin to a sun blue sky
And I feel as high- igh
And my feet are on fire, my spirits rise-in higher and higher
With the brand new day
Chase my troubles a way-yay

Passin lovers on the sidewalk as they walkin hand in hand
Throw the Frisbee to a buddy in the golden sand-and
Laughin way too righteous for the neighbors on the bay
But we just don't care cause we love dat sweet soul shiny day

You might think its nothing
Just another boring day
You might think that love is
Never ever gonna come your way
And all this time you sitting
With a big ole frown on your face
well
Just get right up boy
Just get your butt out of this place


Light is pouring thru the meadow diamond dew drops on the grass
Chabas jumping in the puddle as they splash and fall right on their ass
Music swaying through our bodies as our band begins to play
And we love this song and we love this sweet soul shiny day

Soul shiny day, soul shiny day
Soul shiny day, soul shiny day

Lyrics Jim Yockey Music Jim Yockey and Andrew Rohn
Producer John Feith Publisher VO5
Performance VO5 Label Caculo

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