Nico-- These Days (Song, Video, Lyrics)

I don't know if this going to end up being moved to Social or Creative or whatever, but I really wanted to share it here with you guys. I absolutely love the Velvet Underground and Nico's solo stuff as well. This song, line for line, is just so much of me right now. So much. Especially right now with the eight year anniversary of my psychiatric hospitalization coming up on Saturday-- I have been doing a great deal of sad reflecting, as I do every year at this time. Sadly, I still haven't gotten to the point in which I can measure how I have grown since then. As T said, "You are not that 18 year-old girl anymore"-- but I'm having a really difficult time accepting that and letting her go. I'm not differentiating real well right now. Sorry, I don't know how to actually put the video in the post, so I just put the link.



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.

Thanks for sharing this pink.

These lyrics feel like me too, or a part of me; the part of me that seems to have arrived early to Erikson's 8th stage heavy on the despair side.

I'm not sayin' I'll be sorry
For all the things that I might say
That make you cry.
I can't say I'll always do
All the things you want me to,
I'm not sayin' I'll be true
But I'll try.

Fascinating. http://smironne.free.fr/NICO/bio.html

I know how you feel too

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