These Are the Days (song)

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“These Are the Days”

Song by Van Morrison
Album	Avalon Sunset
Released	1989
Format	CD
Recorded	February 1989 The Townhouse Studios/England
Genre	Celtic,
Length	5:08
Label	Mercury
Writer	Van Morrison
Producer	Van Morrison
Avalon Sunset track listing
"Whenever God Shines His Light" – 4:58 "Contacting My Angel" – 4:57 "I'd Love to Write Another Song" – 2:52 "Have I Told You Lately" – 4:20 "Coney Island" – 2:00 "I'm Tired Joey Boy" – 2:29 "When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God" – 5:38 "Orangefield" – 3:50 "Daring Night" – 6:10 "These Are the Days" – 5:08

"These Are the Days" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and released on his 1989 album Avalon Sunset. It was released as the B-side of the single with "Orangefield" as the A-side. The opening verse of the song is a recurring factor in Morrison's music and lyrics, the belief that the predominent sense of enjoyment and appreciation of life is to be found in the present moment:

These are the days of the endless summer

These are the days, the time is now

There is no past, there's only future

There's only here, there's only now

Biographer John Collis writes that this final song pulls together all the concerns of the album: ^[1]

In one moment ('there is no past...there's only now') Morrison combines earthly love with that inspired by a sun-warmed landscape, the yearning for simplicity with the love of 'the (one) Magician who turned water into wine.