On a Day Like Today

ON A DAY LIKE TODAY (Copyright: Bob Dyer, Songwright Pub. Inc.) Side 1, Band 1. Cathy: guitar Ed: guitar Dave: just a'singin' Of this song, our next-door neighbor writes: "I wrote this song in 1981 when I was living in a rented farmhouse near what was once a town called Gooch's Mill, not far from my hometown of Boonville, Missouri. The house was on a hillside, and from my front porch I looked south across a field of clover and a bottomland bean field to the thickly wooded hills bordering the Petite Saline Creek. It was a lovely place to be reminded by the changing seasons why I have chosen to live out my life in central Missouri. "The song came on a late summer day when I found myself noticing the first subtle signs of autumn and silently wishing the moment could last forever, while at the same time realizing that what I so deeply loved about this landscape was its constantly changing color and texture. The song is my way of having the best of both these worlds." On a day like today, in the heat of this late summer weather, There's a haze in the trees and the sound of the bees in the clover; There's a hawk in the sky, there's a shine on the wide river's water, And I feel deep inside something wanting to stay here forever. But the seasons keep changing, And the days just keepirunning away, And forever's a gift you're forever giving away. On a day like today, in the last golden days of October, There's a chill in the air and a light haze of frost on the clover; There's a fire in the trees, there's a sound in the breeze like a whisper, And I feel deep inside something wanting to stay here forever. On a day like today, in the heart of a long, bitter winter, With the light from the moon making stars on the snow in the clover, I sit down by the fire in the heat of its slow, dying embers, And I feel deep inside something wanting to stay here forever. It's a morning in spring, and the dew on the jewel weed still glistens, And I almost can hear new life being born as I listen; I walk down by the spring and I drink from its clear flowing water, And I feel deep inside something wanting to stay here forever.