These Days

Smoking at 3am again. Wasted day and wasted cigarette. Orion again, the only constellation I can always see. I lost the clasp to my bandage somewhere and went back 3 times to look for it, paranoid, trying to cover my tracks. I've been daydreaming again of living in another time and place and writing letters.
This is a song that was featured in one of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite movies. The melody is really simple and comforting, but it sort of unnerves me because I don't know if she's singing about the present or the future.
I'll shut up with my pretentiousness now and let Nico say the rest.

I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking
These days, these days.
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to.


I've stopped my rambling,
I don't do too much gambling
These days, these days.
These days I seem to think about
How all the changes came about my ways
And I wonder if I'll see another highway.


I had a lover,
I don't think I'll risk another
These days, these days.
And if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
It's just that I've been losing so long.
La la la la la, la la.


I've stopped my dreaming,
I won't do too much scheming
These days, these days.
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten.
Please don't confront me with my failures,
I had not forgotten them.

	Nico - These Days .mp3
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