Here Comes The Sun

"Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)" is an edutaining song by They Might Be Giants that explains:

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, its hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives

We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There'd be no you and me"

They are exactly right, because without the sun's light, heat and energy combined with our waste products (carbon dioxide and water), green plants would be unable to perform photosynthesis and produce oxygen which is essential for us to live.  We really take the sun for granted, but none of us would be here without it. Just think about how lucky you are that the sun is just far enough away (about 93 million miles) so that we don't either fry or freeze.  And while we are the ones that are lucky, many artists have sung a great old song called "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around the Heaven All Day)".

Here are three really cool SUN songs:
     "Another Sunny Day" by Belle & Sebastian www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2lviob9xAQ

    "Holidays in the Sun" by the Sex Pistols www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP_X0gmgtk0

    "Yellow Sun" by the Raconteurs www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8bnPUkd71w

In addition to making life possible, there is also something very important that the Sun does.  It shines. Consider the number of songs that remind us of that fact.  "You Are My Sunshine", "Ain't No Sunshine (When She's Gone)", "And the Sun Will Shine", "Sunshine (Go Away Today)", or "Sunshine of Your Love".  The Beach Boys spent a lot of time in "The Warmth of the Sun", U2 were "Staring at the Sun" and Kenny Chesney thinks that things heat up "When the Sun Goes Down".

Everyday, the sun rises and sets.  That too has been documented in song.  The Animals gave us the classic "House of the Rising Sun".  Uriah Heep watched the "Sunrise" and Roxy Music watched the "Sunset".  The Eagles enjoyed their "Tequila Sunrise" and the Kinks marvelled in their "Waterloo Sunset".   In Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye and Golde reflect upon their lives while singing "Sunrise, Sunset".
 
"Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?
I don't remember growing older
When did they?...
Sunrise, sunset....
Swiftly flow the days"

What'ya gonna do?  That's Life!   Just do what Sheryl Crow and ZZ Top do,
"Soak Up the Sun" and get yourself some "Cheap Sunglasses".