Black woman sitting here with tears in her eyes in 2018 after hearing this video for the 100th time...ITS SO BEAUTIFUL....THE VOICES OF ANGELS....Not that RACE MATTERS..ITS TO LET THE KING SINGERS KNOW ....THEY TOUCH THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFES AND GENERATIONS...THE SONGS FROM SOLOMONS!... And yes, WHEN I WOULD HEAR THIS ON PBS.... WOULD STOP WITH WHATEVER I WAS DOING. JUST TO GO AND LISTEN TO THIS SONG.. GOD GIVEN GIFT. AMEN
This song played on PBS KQED every morning at 9am. My kids, who were then 1 and 2 would come running to the TV because that meant Sesame St. was starting. We stood in front, watching the sunrise on the screen and listening to this . . . . and sometimes they'd jump into my arms and we would ballet around the living room. They were amazed, I think, at the beautiful sounds those voices made. I looked at them and felt so much love. I felt so blessed to have them. They were MY new day. They are now 19 and 20, and they still stop and listen when they hear this, and we all reminisce about when they were itty bitties. They both have grown into the most wonderful people I could ever really wish to know . . . . and I still feel that same hope when I hear this. When I'm with them. They are still my New Day.
I feel the same way...my son watched the Big Comfy Couch on PBS and this came on right before it...he was about 1 1/2 yrs old...He is now also 19...He was and still is my New Day.... I sent this video to my niece in Colorado when her daughter was born 8 months ago....I told her to look at that little girl when you hear this song....she is your New Day...I still get glassy-eyed when I hear this...It's so beautiful.
The breath at 4:06 that follows the phrase about waiting for a breath, along with the entrance after it, is stunningly beautiful. That moment so perfectly captures the essence of the lyrics -- it's the reason why I keep coming back to this particular performance.
You are the new day You are the new day I will love you more than me And more than yesterday If you can but prove to me You are the new day Send the sun in time for dawn Let the birds all hail the morning Love of life will urge me say You are the new day When I lay me down at night Knowing we must pay Thoughts occur that this night might Stay yesterday Thoughts that we as humans small Could slow worlds and end it all Lie around me where they fall Before the new day One more day when time is running out For everyone Like a breath I knew would come I reach for The new day Hope is my philosophy Just needs days in which to be Love of life means hope for me Borne on a new day You are the new day Fuente: LyricFind Compositores: John David
I actually sang this song in my middle school choir in 2011 or 2012. But it was just us girls singing, no guys. It was beautiful, my choir teacher arranged it for us so we can sing it in a way that made sense to us musically. She did an awesome job
I first heard this nearly forty years ago ago when I bought an album at an auction for £5 as a 15 year old on his first holiday alone without parents. It was a blind auction and £5 was a lot of money then but this song stuck with me and I still sing it to myself now and thank god for RU-vid and for the gift of this song. Without RU-vid it would have disappeared and only be a memory of me getting stung in Rhyl as a naive 15 year old
I sang this for festival for chorus and we begged the teacher to let us sing it for our concert. She said yes! It's my last chorus concert for high school and I'm proud to get to sing this song for it!
This song makes me just melt into the floor or my chair or wherever I am when I'm listening to it. So amazing, so awesome, so awe-inspiring, so moving. This is why music speaks volumes wherever you are. Why it's a universal language. Even if you couldn't hear these words, you would sense the love, the perfection, the hope that underlies this piece of music. Congratulations to TKS for spreading this joy through the world and for making the world a better place through song.
This is like the most beautiful way to process the apocalypse. We exist as a system of memories in pursuit of the new day and finding peace in that promise but acknowledging the fragility of it all.
Ah, I just love this song! The high school choir I'm in is singing this for this year's seniors at graduation! What's amazing to me is that they blend sooo well, and the fact that their countertenor(s) are so perfectly on pitch when my choir's first tenors have a hard time reaching their notes! But they're professional singers for a reason, right? :)
Kings Singers - You Are The New Day 021410.mp4 THE LYRICS: I will love you more than me and more than yesterday, If you can but prove to me you are the new day. Send the sun in time for dawn, Let the birds all hail the morning, Love of life will urge me say, You are the new day. When I lay me down at night, Knowing we must pay, Thoughts occur that this night might Stay yesterday. Thoughts that we as humans small Could slow worlds and end it all, Lie around me where they fall, Before the new day. One more day when time is running out For everyone, Like a breath I knew would come, I reach for the new day. Hope is my philosophy, Just needs days in which to be, Love of life means hope for me, Born on a new day. You are the new day. AUG 5, 2014
This makes me cry, thanks so much. How refreshing to see men sing with such tenderness....so much better than what men usually do with their agression. Actually I believe if more people sang (danced, drew, played instruments & wrote) the world would change dramatically.
From left to right ... David 'counter-tenor... Tim 'counter-tenor...' Paul 'tenor'...Philip 'baritone'... Chris 'baritone'... Stephen 'bass'.. This line-up equals perfection... :0)x
I sang this at a christmas concert the other night :) singing the 1st counter tenor / sop line, just 6 male voices. So so much fun. We did it in the original key though, in C major, went up to a top f :)
@Umbelinodan ...The new Counter-tenor is called Timothy Wayne-Wright... And the other news is that Stephen Connolly is leaving at the end of September... His replacement is called Johnathon Howard and he starts in October 2010... good luck Johnny (big shoes to fill ) and good luck to Stephen in whatever you choose to do after leaving the guys... I LOVE the Kings's Singers.. they are and will always be FANTASTIC... :0)x
Beautiful performance of a lovely arrangement! Anyone know why they perform it in B instead of C (the key of the arrangement in their Simple Gifts Collection edition)?
@mrsIT93 The singer is singing to "Today" (life, actually) and how happy he is to see it, and tells the New Day if it proves to him that it has really arrived, he will love it more than himself and any previous day-just let the sun rise and the birds greet the morning. He thinks about how humans could destroy everything, so he doesn't say these things lightly.
@magenta687 ... Thanks for the info... Well whatever Super Stephen does, I'm sure we all wish him very well indeed... What a total star and has been a fantastic asset ti TKS throughout his time spent with them... I must wish his re-placement Johnathon Howard all the very best and enjoy it as we will when we see you singing with 'the chaps'.. Hee hee ... Tim won't be the 'newbie' then... The very best of regards from Sunny Wales UK ... :0)x
@magenta687 ... goodnesws me...he has been singing with the 'guys' for 22 years and Dacid is upto 20... WOW where have all the years gone... Best regards from Sunny Wales :0)x
ninachkah 3 years agoin reply to Roxana Garcia @AsIWearsPrada Yes!The soprano is so beautiful! Ican't believe that tenor can sing that high!!! AUG 5, 2014
