The Pax Plena song of the week comes to you courtesy of my weekend iPod play list. It’s quite nearly the perfect song to enjoy on the open roads and blue skies of Southern Arizona.

Not to be confused with the Dirty Vegas version, Keith Urban’s Days Go By is decidedly acoustic and un-electronic (though the dancing in Urban’s video isn’t nearly so entertaining as the Dirty Vegas video).

For the country music fans out there, Keith Urban does not disappoint. High vocals melded with an acoustic guitar and an intense beat make the song a hit for country fans generally. While it is a bit like the country-rock genre that made a resurgence of late, the message of the song more than compensates for its deviation from neo-traditional country.

Please enjoy, the Pax Plena song of the week, Days Go By by Keith Urban. Lyrics follow after the jump.

Days Go By
By Keith Urban

I’m changing lanes and talkin’ on the phone
Drivin’ way too fast.
And the interstate’s jammed with gunners like me
Afraid of comin’ in last.
But somewhere in the race we run,
We’re coming undone…

CHORUS:
And days go by…
I can feel ’em flyin’
Like a hand out the window in the wind.
The cars go by…
Yeah it’s all we’ve been given,
So you better start livin’ right now
‘Cause days go by…
Oh and a woo-hoo…

Out on the roof just the other night
I watched the world flash by,
Headlights, taillights,
Running through a river of neon signs.
Mmm-hmmm…
But somewhere in the rush I felt,
We’re losing ourselves…

CHORUS:
And days go by…
I can feel ’em flyin’
Like a hand out the window in the wind.
The cars go by…
Yeah it’s all we’ve been given,
So you better start livin’ right now,
And days go by…
Oh and a woo-hoo…
Yeah, the days go by…
Oh and a woo-hoo!

We think about tomorrow then it slips away.
Oh, yes, it does.
We talk about forever but we’ve only got today…

And the days go by…
I can feel ’em flyin’
Like a hand out the window as the cars go by…
Yeah it’s all we’ve been given,
So you better start livin’,
You better start livin’,
Better start livin’ right now!

CHORUS:
‘Cause days go by…
I can feel ’em flyin’
Like a hand out the window in the wind.
The cars go by…
Yeah it’s all we’ve been given,
So you better start livin’ right now…
‘Cause days go by…
Oh and a woo-hoo…
Yeah, these days go by…
Oh and a woo-hooo!

Oh!
So take ’em by the hand,
They’re yours and mine.
Take ’em by the hand,
And live your life.
Take ’em by the hand,
Don’t let ’em all fly by!

Come on, Come on now…
Yeah!
Come on now!
Oh and a woo-hooo!
Don’t you know the days go by…