ただ、最近もう一度見直すと、最後のほうに出て来るメッセージに "it is catered for by / BBC Radio and Television."（この映像はBBCラジオおよびテレビの提供によるものです）とあり、「よし、ラジオだ！」ってなことで、ご紹介しております。たぶん、ラジオでも流れていたのでしょう。
最後の "This is only possible / thanks to the unique way the / BBC is paid for by you. / BBC / You make it what it is." というメッセージからも判るように、日本で言えば、「NHKはみなさまの受信料で運営されています」的な、局のプロモーション映像と考えてよいでしょう。
曲の出だしの時点では、"a perfect day" とは「雲ひとつない晴天の日」といった意味でしょう。しかし、曲が進むにつれて、ある休日の何気ない幸福な情景が "a perfect day" という言葉に別の意味や奥行きを与えてゆきます。
しかし、この歌の主人公は、この完璧に幸福な休日に自分はふさわしくないと感じているようです。淡々とした情景の描写は、目の前の景色に対する実感のなさや疎外感を反映しているようにも思えます。同時に一緒に休日を過ごしている "you" の存在によって承認もされていると感じているようです（"you made me forget myself/ I thought I was/ someone else, someone good"）。太陽が明るければ明るいほど、幸福であればあるほど、自分の心の中の影を見つめてしまうような晴天の休日。
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※追記
曲を聴きながらこのエントリーを書いていたら、最後の歌詞の "You're going to reap just what you sow" を公共放送の経営の有りように掛けていることに今さら気付く。だからこの曲なんですね。
Just a perfect day drink Sangria in the park And then later when it gets dark, we go home
Just a perfect day feed animals in the zoo Then later a movie, too, and then home
Oh, it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spend it with you Oh, such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on
Just a perfect day problems all left alone Weekenders on our own it's such fun
Just a perfect day you made me forget myself I thought I was someone else, someone good
Oh, it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh, such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on
You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow
You know, man, when I was a young man in high school you believe in or not I wanted to play football for the coach And all those older guys they said he was mean and cruel, but you know wanted to play football for the coach They said I was too little too light weight to play line-backer so I say I'm playing right-end wanted to play football for the coach 'Cause, you know some day, man you gotta stand up straight unless you're gonna fall then you're gone to die And the straightest dude I ever knew was standing right for me all the time So I had to play football for the coach and I wanted to play football for the coach
When you're all alone and lonely in your midnight hour And you find that your soul it's been up for sale
And you begin to think 'bout all the things that you've done And you begin to hate just 'bout everything
But remember the princess who lived on the hill Who loved you even though she knew you was wrong And right now she just might come shining through and the -
- Glory of love, glory of love glory of love, just might come through
And all your two-bit friends have gone and ripped you off They're talking behind your back saying, man you're never going to be no human being And you start thinking again 'bout all those things that you've done And who it was and what it was and all the different things you made every different scene
Ahhh, but remember that the city is a funny place Something like a circus or a sewer And just remember different people have peculiar tastes and the -
- Glory of love, the glory of love the glory of love, might see you through yeah, but now, now Glory of love, the glory of love the glory of love, might see you through Glory of love, ah, huh, huh, the glory of love Glory of love, glory of love Glory of love, now, glory of love, now Glory of love, now, now, now, glory of love Glory of love, give it to me now, glory of love see you through Oh, my Coney Island baby, now (I'm a Coney Island baby, now) I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel and all the kids at P.S. 192 Coney Island baby Man, I'd swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you
しかし調べてみると、あの曲は熊田為広［作曲］「ラジオの開始・終了音楽」というNHKのオリジナル曲だと判った。しかも、オルゴールではなく三石精一によるチェレスタ演奏なのだとか。
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