JACKSON BROWNE lyrics - I've Been Out Walking (These Days)

[This song appears on the album "For Everyman" as "These Days" with slightly different lyrics]



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 stopped my ramblin'

I don't do too much gamblin' these days

These days

These days I seem to think about

How all the changes came about my way

And I wonder if I'll see another highway



And 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

Well it's just 'cause I've been losing so long



Well I'll stop my dreamin'

I don't do too much schemin' these days

These days

These days I'll sit on cornerstones

And count the time in quartertones to ten

Please don't confront me with my failures

I had not forgotten them