Better Days

Album: C'mon You Know (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a song of encouragement where Liam Gallagher reassures a loved one that better days are ahead. Though they are miles apart, the singer assures her that on his return, he will meet her in the rain. In the meantime, Gallagher's love will hold her and get his sweetheart through the night. Speaking to Chris Moyles on Radio X, the "Wall of Glass" hitmaker described the song as "full of sunshine."
  • Gallagher wrote "Better Days" with Andrew Wyatt and Michael Tighe for his C'Mon On You Know album. Speaking to Mojo magazine, he said listeners shouldn't read too much into his lyrics. "For me a song is a song. I don't overthink it. If it sounds good and I sound good when I sing it then it's all right with me."
  • "Better Days" interpolates Tove Lo's 2017 track "Bad Days." That song's writers, Gustav Weber Vernet and Tove Lo, are consequently listed on the songwriting credits.
  • Gallagher's long-term collaborators Andrew Wyatt and Greg Kurstin co-produced "Better Days." Wyatt also arranged the strings.
  • Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs plays guitar on "Better Days." Zinner and Wyatt frequently work together, with both playing on Pussy Riot's 2015 protest song "I Can't Breathe" and Zinner enlisting Wyatt for the 2019 orchestral performance of his four-part symphony "41 Strings." The Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist also played alongside Wyatt on six tracks from Gallagher's 2019 Why Me? Why Not album.
  • The Paul Dugdale-directed video finds Gallagher and his band performing on the rooftop of Manchester's Midland Hotel. One of the world's leading pop culture directors, Dugdale has directed TV specials for the likes of Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Adele.
  • Gallagher donated all UK proceeds from "Better Days" to War Child from its release on April 22, 2022, to the end of the year.
  • Liam Gallagher debuted the song live during an intimate show on April 27, 2022 at the King George's Hall in Blackburn. He dedicated the track to his guitarist Arthur "Bonehead" Arthurs, who'd recently started treatment for tonsil cancer.

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  • Jojomocann from HeavenMy dad wrote this for me and my brothers
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