This song can also be regarded as a hymn to Beyond: No matter how many storms it has experienced, Beyond has its own days of our lives. It is said that after hearing this song, Mandela immediately asked someone to translate the lyrics, and when he heard the meaning in the lyrics, he couldn't help crying. Perhaps, this song just hit the softest feeling in his heart.
Extended data:
The lyrics of this song are inspirational and the melody of the song is easy to be popular. When listening to "days of our lives", a cry from a rebellious youth to a free torch makes people feel involuntarily. It is a shock from the soul, which makes people in adversity seem to see a glimmer of hope and make them involuntarily strong.
Creative background:
1From August 3 to 6, 990, Beyond lead singer Ka Kui Wong went to Papua New Guinea with Radio Television Hong Kong's "Love First Brigade" and witnessed the miserable life of the local people because of war and famine. After returning to Hongkong, Ka Kui Wong read the story of Mandela being trapped in prison in the newspaper, and his inner voice rang out from it.
Ka Kui Wong thinks that Mandela's spiritual connotation is about struggle and hope, which coincides with Beyond's hard work in Hongkong, so Ka Kui Wong wrote the song days of our lives.