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Best Day of My Life

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Best Day of My Life Lyrics

[Intro]
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)

[Verse 1]
I had a dream so big and loud
I jumped so high, I touched the clouds
Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh (Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)
I stretched my hands out to the sky
We danced with monsters through the night
Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh (Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)

[Pre-Chorus]
I'm never gonna look back, woah
I'm never gonna give it up, no
Please don't wake me now
(Two, three, four)

[Chorus]
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) This is gonna be the best day of my life
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) My li-i-i-i-i-i-ife
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) This is gonna be the best day of my life
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) My li-i-i-i-i-i-ife

[Post-Chorus]
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
[Verse 2]
I howled at the moon with friends
And then the sun came crashing in
Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh (Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)
But all the possibilities
No limits, just epiphanies
Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh (Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)

[Pre-Chorus]
I'm never gonna look back, woah
I'm never gonna give it up, no
Just don't wake me now

[Chorus]
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) This is gonna be the best day of my life
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) My li-i-i-i-i-i-ife
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) This is gonna be the best day of my life
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) My li-i-i-i-i-i-ife

[Post-Chorus]
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)

[Bridge]
I hear it calling outside my window
I feel it in my soul (Soul)
The stars were burning so bright
The sun was out 'til midnight
I say we lose control (Control)

[Interlude]
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)

[Chorus]
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) This is gonna be the best day of my life
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) My li-i-i-i-i-i-ife
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) This is gonna be the best day of my life
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) My li-i-i-i-i-i-ife

[Outro]
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) This is gonna be, this is gonna be, this is gonna be
The best day of my life (Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
Everything is lookin' up, everybody up now
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) This is gonna be the best day of my life
(Woo, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh) My li-i-i-i-i-i-ife

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“Best Day of My Life” is a song by American pop rock band American Authors. The song was written by band members Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez, and James Adam Shelley, along with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman. “Best Day of My Life” was originally recorded for release as a single by Mercury Records and Island Records on March 19, 2013, and later appeared as the second track on the band’s third extended play, American Authors (2013), and the third track on their debut studio album, Oh, What a Life (2014). Dave Rublin spoke in a podcast of Songfacts where he disclosed that the song was being written when the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting happened in 2012. They were inspired to write the song to “make people happy and make people feel positive, because that’s something that was missing from rock and from songwriting, just something so simplistic that can be an earworm, that can carry people.”[1]

Zac Barnett told an interviewer for Blueprint Magazine, “Recently we have been experimenting with a lot of different instruments including banjo, mandolin, and various percussion toys. Africa-influenced rhythms have been taking more of a prominent role in our songs which has then opened up our ideas on melodies. We’re always open to trying new things and we get very excited to learn new instruments and experiment with new sounds. … "Best Day of My Life” was an idea that James and I had been messing around with. We had the pre-chorus and chorus but once we showed the idea to the rest of the guys they came in and restructured the verses and added the stuttered “life” chorus. Looking back on it, the song changed a lot from the initial idea but that’s what I love so much about it. I’ll always remember that song being started on acoustic guitars in my tiny Bushwick bedroom, but all of us together as a band really took the song to a completely different place.“[2]

(Barnett mentions “the stuttered ‘life’ chorus"—as in "the best day of my li-i-i-i-ife”; the “stuttering” also occurs in a recurrent “whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh"—by which he refers to a lyrical tradition of stuttering in rock music, popularized by Buddy Holly,[3][4] David Bowie ("Ch-Ch-Changes”),[5] Elton John,[6] and others.)

Bill Lamb, writing for About.com, praised the song’s “opening banjo lick” as “a perfect first hook,” its “irrepressibly upbeat lyrics,” and “a blend of key elements from across a wide range of current successful pop music.” He added, “The bass drum-heavy backing percussion sounds a little like Imagine Dragons, and backed by a pop-punk style "Whoa Oh” chorus, “Best Day of My Life” takes some of the most distinctive elements of a variety of current pop hit genres and blends them into something new."

The song also utilizes the Millennial Whoop.

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