Songfacts®:

• "These Days To Come" is one of two new songs Translator included on their album Beyond Today: Live At The Farm San Francisco 1986, which was recorded at their farewell concert in 1986 but wasn't released until 2025. The band, which is best known for their debut single, "Everywhere That I'm Not," reunited a few times over the years, starting in 2006. The other new song on the album is "With Your Dreams."
• Translator is led by singer/guitarists Robert Darlington and Steve Barton. They wrote most of their songs during the band's '80s heyday, but this song is credited to the whole group. Darlington told Songfacts how it came together:
  
  "I started writing this song in early 2023 as an anthemic style of song. I was sitting on my bed, strumming my guitar, and the verses were written in only a few minutes. I then wrote the short middle bridge, but was unhappy with the overall song. It needed another part. Steve and I had been talking about writing another song together, but I had decided not to send him this one. I finally decided to attach the song file to a text and sent it, while not expecting much, and he sent back this great finished song. I am so happy that I decided to send it - it really sounds like Translator and shows that our songwriting has not changed that much over the years. Strong lyrics and great melodies are what we always strive for."
  
  Steve Barton added: "Robert sent an acoustic demo to me, probably recorded on his phone. There was no chorus. It had sort of a Velvet Underground vibe, which was really cool. It seemed like an obvious Translator type of song, so I put together a demo of where I thought it could go. The melody and all of the words to the verses and bridge were there. I came up with the chorus and put the bridge in 3/4 time, just to shake things up!"
• Darlington and Barton share the vocals on this one, going for an Everly Brothers feel.