Colin Hay - Beautiful World

Colin Hay is proof positive that it's not really what you know, but who you know (not to imply that he doesn't know anything, because his music certainly suggests otherwise). Fans of the television show Scrubs or the movie Garden State will recognize Hay's work, as he played the annoying guitarist who followed Zach Braff's character in an episode of the former and was then picked by Braff to join the soundtrack for the latter.

Beautiful World is probably his least intense song, though the subject matter is no less serious as his other tracks. It's a happy track, over all, about finding joy where it comes to you, and managing to be okay when things don't go exactly right. In it, he muses about a relationship that's less than perfect, but okay the way it is nonetheless ("I like sleeping with Marie; she is one sexy girl full of mystery/she says she doesn't love me, but she likes my company/for now that's good enough for me") and juxtaposes it with the little happinesses in life ("I like driving in my car; I roll the top down, sometimes I travel quite far, drive to the ocean, stare up at the stars").

All in all, this song reminds you that there's nothing wrong with accepting things as being "good enough."