Another Day of Sun
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Another Day of Sun Lyrics
Ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba
Ba-ba-ba ba-da-ba-da-ba
Ba-ba-ba ba
I think about that day
I left him at a Greyhound station
West of Santa Fé
We were seventeen, but he was sweet and it was true
Still I did what I had to do
'Cause I just knew
Summer; Sunday nights
We'd sink into our seats
Right as they dimmed out all the lights
A Technicolor world made out of music and machine
It called me to be on that screen
And live inside each scene
[FIRST GIRL & FIRST MAN]
Without a nickel to my name
Hopped a bus, here I came
Could be brave or just insane
[FIRST GIRL, FIRST MAN & SECOND MAN]
We'll have to see
'Cause maybe in that sleepy town
He'll sit one day, the lights are down
He'll see my face and think of how he...
[FIRST GIRL, FIRST MAN, SECOND MAN & DANCERS]
...used to know me
[ALL]
Climb these hills
I'm reaching for the heights
And chasing all the lights that shine
And when they let you down
You'll get up off the ground
'Cause morning rolls around
And it's another day of sun
[YOUNG MAN]
I hear 'em ev'ry day
The rhythms in the canyons
That'll never fade away
The ballads in the barrooms
Left by those who came before
They say "you gotta want it more"
So I bang on ev'ry door
And even when the answer's "no"
Or when my money's running low
The dusty mic and neon glow
Are all I need
[YOUNG MAN]
And someday as I sing my song
A small-town kid'll come along
[SECOND GIRL & YOUNG MAN]
That'll be the thing to push him on and go go
[ALL]
Climb these hills
I'm reaching for the heights
And chasing all the lights that shine
And when they let you down
You'll get up off the ground
'Cause morning rolls around
And it's another day of sun
[Instrumental Break]
[FIRST GIRL]
And when they let you down
The morning rolls around
It's another day of sun
It's another day of sun
It's another day of sun
It's another day of sun
Just another day of sun
It's another day of sun
Another day has just begun
It's another day of sun
It's another day of sun
About
“Another Day of Sun” is the first song in the film, composed by Justin Hurwitz and written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, sung by the entire La La Land cast.
The song is a choreographed party in broad daylight on the usually irritating, jammed LA highway – an extremely, amazing theatrical depiction of magic in the mundane.
The cast starts in their cars, in gridlocked L.A. traffic – and break into a choreographed troupe format dance.
The song’s featured singers tell personal “origin stories” that loosely foreshadow the plot of the movie, setting up the main characters' motivations as struggling performers also trying to make it in L.A.
The lyrics, too, foreshadow the entire movie, talking about inspirations and motivations for struggling actors and artists – with all their shimmering hopes and dreams – and the entire desperate nature of these desires.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
So in Damien’s script, there were all the big moments, there was the big opening moment on the freeway which he described very elegantly in his script, you know… how music bubbles up from under the car radios and the girl in the first car starts humming along to it and then she gets out of her car and starts singing. And so our working title for that song, for a very long time, was just “Traffic.” Even late in the process I remember… After Pasek and Paul wrote the words “Another Day of Sun” and that title existed, all of the crew and department heads were still sometimes calling it “Traffic.” I remember I did a Q&A like a month ago with Mandy Moore, the choreographer, and she was talking about, “when we did Traffic…” and I had to say, “Nobody knows [what that is]. Only we know of it as Traffic.”
IMDB lists the uncredited “Young Man” as Noah James.
- 1.Another Day of Sun
- 7.Planetarium
- 10.Start a Fire
- 11.Engagement Party
- 13.Epilogue
- 14.The End