Summary
Sunny All Around works through tonal surface. It sounds like the kind of song whose emotional weather ought to be clear, but within this album that very clarity becomes suspect. Brightness may be genuine, defensive, nostalgic, or ironic; the listener is left to work out what the atmosphere is actually doing. That uncertainty makes the track fit the cycle well.
Lyrics
Hey!
La-di luma, la-di lay
Hey!
Sunny all around today
Hey!
La-di luma, la-di low
Everybody knows where to go
Wake up, window, open wide
Bright little shoes on the bright outside
Blue sky knocking at the garden gate
Everybody’s early and nobody’s late
Mrs Bell with the yellow flowers
Waves from the corner every quarter hour
Tom’s got a whistle and Jenny’s got a drum
Everybody smiles when the morning comes
And if you feel a little strange
Just clap along, it goes away
If there’s a shadow on your face
Turn it to the sunny place
La-di luma, la-di lay
Sunny all around today
Hands up high and hearts in time
Everything is going fine
La-di luma, la-di low
Round and round and on we go
If you lose the words, just shine
Everything is going fine
Fine, fine, fine
Everything is going fine
Fine, fine, fine
Stay inside the line
All the houses painted clean
Same little red and the same soft green
All the curtains open at a quarter to nine
Everybody waves from the window line
There’s a song on the radio, simple and sweet
Tapping out time with a thousand feet
Don’t ask why and don’t ask when
Sing it once and sing it again
And if your heart gets out of place
Just clap along, it finds the way
If there’s a question in your eyes
Look up at the lovely sky
La-di luma, la-di lay
Sunny all around today
Hands up high and hearts in time
Everything is going fine
La-di luma, la-di low
Round and round and on we go
If you lose the words, just shine
Everything is going fine
Do we stop?
No, no, never
Do we frown?
No, not ever
Do we know?
Yes, together
Are we fine?
Fine forever
La-di luma
La-di lay
La-di luma
Sunny day
There’s a bell beneath the pavement
There’s a hum behind the sun
There’s a place we nearly mention
But we don’t, because we’re one
There’s a door behind the music
There’s a room behind the rhyme
But the beat is getting brighter
So we keep ourselves in time
Clap if you’re happy
Clap if you know
Clap if you’re ready
Ready to go
Clap if you’re happy
Clap if you know
La-di luma
La-di low
La-di luma, la-di lay
Sunny all around today
Hands up high and hearts in time
Everything is going fine
La-di luma, la-di low
Round and round and on we go
If you lose the words, just shine
Everything is going fine
La-di luma, la-di lay
No one ever walks away
Side by side and line by line
Everything is going fine
La-di luma, la-di low
Smile until the lights come on
If you lose the words, just shine
Everything is going fine
Fine, fine, fine
Everything is going fine
Fine, fine, fine
Stay inside the line
Hey!
La-di luma, la-di lay
Hey!
Sunny all around today
History
This belongs to the album's tonal-recontextualisation lane, where apparent emotional transparency becomes one more way of testing the listener's interpretive confidence.
Meaning
The song is about brightness as uncertain evidence. It shows how positive surface can complicate rather than settle what the song is really saying.