"These Are the Days" | |
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B-side to "Orangefield" by Van Morrison from the album Avalon Sunset | |
Released | 1989 |
Format | CD |
Recorded | February 1989 The Townhouse Studios/England |
Genre | Celtic |
Length | 5:08 |
Label | Mercury |
Writer | Van Morrison |
Producer | Van Morrison |
Avalon Sunset track listing | |
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"These Are the Days" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and released on his 1989 album Avalon Sunset. It was released as the B-side of the single with "Orangefield" as the A-side.
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The opening verse of the song is a recurring factor in Morrison's music and lyrics, the belief that the predominant sense of enjoyment and appreciation of life is to be found in the present moment:
Biographer John Collis writes that this final song pulls together all the concerns of the album:
In one moment ('there is no past...there's only now') Morrison combines earthly love with that inspired by a sun-warmed landscape, the yearning for simplicity with the love of 'the (one) Magician who turned water into wine.[1]
"These Are the Days" replaces "Caravan" as an ITunes bonus track, on Morrison's 2007 compilation album Van Morrison at the Movies - Soundtrack Hits.
"These Are the Days" was featured in the 1995 movie, Nine Months starring Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore.[2]