Lyrics 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.

Well I've been out walkin'
And I don't do that much talking, these days
These days
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do, for you
And all the times I had a chance to


Well I had a lover
It's so hard to risk another these days
These days
Now if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
Well it's just that I have been losing, so long


Well, I'll keep on movin', moving on
Things are bound to be improvin' these days
One of these days
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them