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Holiday Greeting Song

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On the hoilday greating, what song where the guys playing and does anyone have the lyrics for it?
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The song's called Best Day and apparently no longer sounds anything like it did when the greeting was recorded.

And I haven't seen any lyrics around.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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I thought someone typed it out?

Hmm... maybe that was on the OMA? :Johnathan: Or perhaps I'm just making things up in my head. Yeah, it's probably that. :lol:
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Someone typed out Liar (I think it was Lydia) but I don't remember any Best Day lyrics. But that might just be my age :P
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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Soozy wrote:The song's called Best Day and apparently no longer sounds anything like it did when the greeting was recorded.

And I haven't seen any lyrics around.


it wasn't on the sheet thing, so that would lead me to believe that it might not be on the album.

also, do you guys think that this was the song they were working on in the DVD? because it seemed like they were working on a transition for a song, so they could go from something soft to something loud and trying to figure it out and in the song, they kinda skipped the transition part with raine talking, jeremy just kicked into a slighlty different drum beat.
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What did you just say? :wtf:
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<font color="#89CDCC">Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or <font color="#FFFFFF">hunger</font>,
a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the <font color="#FFFFFF">world</font>...</font>

<font color="#B1DFDE">You may say I'm a <font color="#FFFFFF">dreamer</font>, but I'm not the only one, I hope
some day you'll join us, and the world will <font color="#FFFFFF">live</font> as one.</font></center></font>
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indeed. :freak:
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I concur.
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me too
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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it doesn't sound like the one they were working on in the DVD
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I meant to say that teh song "Best Day" was not on the song sheet in the Holiday Greeting which would lead me to believe that it may be cut from the album.
Also, in the live DVD. There is a part where the band's in the rehersal space and they're working on a song. Where Steve jokes about the chords he has to play.
And Raine goes: "Boom-ba-down, boop-ba-down." That part sounded like they were trying to bridge together two different parts of a song. As though it starts off slow and turns fast later on. In the Holiday Greeting song, they just kind of went from this slow mellow song to a kind of fast paced one with no transition or bridge.
This leads me to think that prehaps it could be the same song without a proper bridge worked out.

...maybe i'm reading into it too much haha
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They wouldn't be working on Best Day if it had been cut from the album would they????

Therefore the first part of what you're saying is kind of silly.

I don't remember the DVD bit so I can't comment on that.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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Maybe they just stopped working on it, or it didn't fit with what they thought the album should be, and this was one of their "alternate" ways to get the music out.
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But they've been working on it since the video was made.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.


And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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Yeah, that's true. Hmm, so the list of songs means nothing?
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:freak: i don't remember this from the dvd at ALL.
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it's in the special features where they follow the band around.
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I think you are remembering the 3 studio clips from early last year, not the DVD.
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no it was on the dvd, i'm watching it right now.
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Oh ok, I see the part you are talking about. No, not the same. Weirdo
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