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I’ve got a quest from a friend of mine – think I got it beacause I said, that the day wasn’t a day for big words – or more precisely my head wasn’t for big words – therefore I’ve made a lot of unimportant things. I’ve been cutting firewood, where my biggest concern was to avoid that the cutter lost its table each timeit was a piece of oak tree, I’ve cleaned the house – a job which is the most unpopular job in this house, and therefore the thougts have been filled of selfpityness and wondering why is it always me who has to do this fu….  job! But besides all these negativ thoughts, there have been daydreams a whole bunch of them ……. what if I could? What if I met? Perhaps one could….  would it be an idea to .. …

All these thoughts made my new quest easy and her quest came as sent from the heaven! I had to write about a song. It is a Danish version of  John Sebastian’s What a day for a daydream.

The Danish version played by one of my favourite bands – Lars Lilholtband can be heard here – bad saound, but it gives an impression of the music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWVG4WDSDQ0

It makes no sense to present the Danish text here, but it is very much like the original:

What a day for a daydream
What a day for a daydreamin’ boy
And I’m lost in a daydream
Dreamin ’bout my bundle of joy

And even if time ain’t really on my side
It’s one of those days for takin’ a walk outside
I’m blowin’ the day to take a walk in the sun
And fall on my face on somebody’s new mowed lawn

I’ve been havin’ a sweet dream
I been dreamin’ since I woke up today
It’s starrin’ me and my sweet dream
Cause she’s the one that makes me feel this way

And even if time has passed me by a lot
I couldn’t care less about the dues you say I got
Tomorrow I’ll pay the dues for droppin’ my load
A pie in the face for bein’ asleep before dawn

And you can be sure that if you’re feelin’ right
A daydream will last along into the night
Tomorrow at breakfast you may pick up your ears
Or you may be daydreamin for a thousand years

What a day for a daydream
Custom made for a daydreamin’ boy
And now I’m lost in a daydream
Dreamin ’bout my bundle of joy

Funny enough when I hear the song, I get a picture in my head of a young Lars – roughly outlined as they did in in a theater concert about Lars Lilholt and his music at Aalborg theater. The song was called “I’m chuckling” it is about his youth and the first sexual experinces and shows a young happy guy who is fooling around  – but it could also be Lars as we know him today, who is going to dig the garden for his wife, but who again and again is distracted by the big voice of the river “Gudenåe”, the whispering in the trees, the sound of the birds  and so on – all in all the song makes a lot of pictures in my head.

 

from Aalborg theater – borrowed from Lars Lilholt band http://www.larslilholt.com/#12.7

As I more than indicated in the beginning, I can easily see myself in this song – each and every day is suited for a daydream -  and yes, everyone of us have more than a thousand things we must do, we are always very very busy – BUT you can reah much more if you are happy, and with good daydreams your mood will be 100 times better and then you work better! I can always manage to be dreaming and working at the same time – anyway the good ideas are created by the daydreams, and you just have to try them ….. some of the ideas capsize, but then they are tried out, but most of the hold on, and then you are an experice richer – often people around you are an amusement richer, and the day has been more exciting!

Lars sings about the nice weather …. and yes sometimes the weather is just fine – but HELLO this is freaking rainy Denmark we are talking about, and if it isn’t rainy it is at least grey and windy most of the time – but it is when everything is grey that you need the daydreams most – so I would change the song to someting like: “I’m just looking into the grey nothing! ….. and when I’m dreaming everything will be blue, because it is there everything happens.

Some would now ask – But what are you daydreaming about?????? In the text it is about a girl, and yes beeing in love is a good thing, but it reaches nothing, and a daydream must reach far beyond the first love thing!  For me it has often something to do with music – music is necessary for the life, it is for the soul what a bath is for your body, so the music makes your thoughts easy and flying and the dreams can be about the good days in the summer, the weather, the music you look forward to hear, the people you love, what if ….. you at last finally would do it – change job, move, write the book you’ve been dreaming of, draw that drawing, learn to play a new instrument  and so on – no limits at all.

The essential function of daydreams is, that you will get happy and when each day is made for daydreaming, then it is easy to see, thar if you are daydreaming, then you have opened an eternal road of joy and happiness.

Some would call it irrational, because it is to loose a good life to dream your life away – and yes they could be right, at least if you are not able of multitasking, because then your life is nothing else than a dream, that means they are living a lie, but for the rest of us, the daydreams are just the spice, which makes the day – and oneself – a little more funny  and nicer to meet.

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