Chords
These Days

The song reflects Jackson Brownes feelings of disillusionment and contemplation about his life and the people around him during a time of change in the 60s. It was written when he was 16 and captures a sense of premature aging and contemplating ones own failures.

Key: C

Introduction: C    G/B    Am7    G    F9+    

difficulty
intermediate |||||
      C      G/B         Am7    G  F7+  
Well I' ve been out walkin' 
                C    G/B          Am7         G        F7+  
And I don' t do that much talking, these days
        C    G  
These days
        F  
These days I seem to think a lot
                                             C          G    E/G#  
About the things that I forgot to do, for you
     Am                            F7+  
And all the times I had a chance to

C  G/B  Am7    G  F7+  

      C  G/B     Am7    G  F7+  
Well I had a lover
          C          G/B     Am7      G          F7+  
It' s so hard to risk another these days
        C     G  
These days
     F  
Now if I seem to be afraid
                                                 C     G  E/G#  
To live the life that I have made in song
      Am                                        F7+  
Well it' s just that I have been losing, so long

C  G/B  Am7    G  F7+  
C  G/B  Am7    G  F7+  
C    G    F  
C    G  E/G#  Am  Em  F7+  

        C      G/B        Am7    G  F7+  
Well, I' ll keep on movin' , moving on
              C            G/B    Am7        G        F7+  
Things are bound to be improvin'  these days
                 C     G  
One of these days
        F  
These days I sit on corner stones
                                                    C          G         E/G#  
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend
            Am          Em              F7+  
Don' t confront me with my failures
                             C  G/B  Am7    G  F7+  
I had not forgotten them

C  G/B  Am7    G  F