Past Won't Leave My Bed
by Joji

Album: Piss In the Wind (2025)
Charted: 79
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Songfacts®:

  • "Past Won't Leave My Bed" finds Joji once again caught between melancholy and melody, that half-dreaming state he's made his trademark. It's a sad piano ballad in which he can't shake the ghost of an ex; she's everywhere Joji looks, haunting the corners of every waking moment. The only time she fades is in sleep, and even that's a brief reprieve. There are echoes of "Run," another song where Joji can't escape his feelings for a former lover.
  • Like much of Joji's catalog, it feels intimate enough to be a diary entry, though he's quick to insist otherwise. Joji has said he's after emotional truth, not literal confession, more "Slow Dancing In The Dark" than "This Is What Actually Happened."
  • Joji wrote the song with Dan Farber, Jonathan Xavier Cunningham, Veronica Goudie (credited as Fussy), and P.J.A. Williams. Farber, an Israeli-born producer who has built a strong reputation in alternative R&B and pop production, was grateful to be part of the project, noting that "Joji's artistry and vision always carry that rare allure and creativity."
  • The accompanying video, directed by Ethan Eng, looks like something discovered on a forgotten camcorder, all grain and ghosts. Shot across the backroads of North America, it follows a drifting hitchhiker whose memories seem to leak into the scenery.

    Ethan Eng's directorial resumé also includes the critically acclaimed indie film Therapy Dogs (2022), which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and received lots of positive attention.

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