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