Letra de
These Days

La canción refleja los sentimientos de desilusión y contemplación de Jackson Browne sobre su vida y las personas a su alrededor durante un período de cambio en los años 60. Fue escrita cuando tenía 16 años y capta una sensación de envejecimiento prematuro y la consideración de los propios fracasos.

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