These Days

Album: For Everyman (1973)
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  • Well, I've been out walkin'
    I don't do too much talkin' 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 the chance to

    Well, I had a lover
    I don't think I'd risk another these days
    These days
    These days I seem to be afraid
    To live the life that I have made in song
    But it's just that I have been losing so long

    These days I sit on corner stones
    And count the time in quarter tones 'til ten, my friend
    And now I believe I've come to see myself again

    These days I sit on corner stones
    And count the time in quarter tones 'til ten, my friend

    Please don't confront me with my failures
    I'm aware of them
    So aware of them Writer/s: Jackson Browne
    Publisher: DRIVE MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Comments: 5

  • Rockynot from TennesseeThe line is “…I had not forgotten them”
  • Eddie from Braselton, GeorgiaAmazing that he wrote this at age 16. Talk about an old soul, it sounds like he's got 50 years of pain behind him.
  • Talena from Arcata, Ca"Don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them."
    Too true, my friend, too true.
  • Barry from New York, NcGregg Allman plays this song a lot in concert. Also there's a nice version on his LAID BACK lp.
  • Carolyn from St Pete, FlHe also said he played electic guitar (not acoustic)on the song because Andy Warhol wanted her (Nico's)version to sound more modern.
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