1) More Days: I started this song one night in Boston. I was there for meetings, and a Sou’wester blew in and covered the city in snow. So, the meetings were cancelled, and I was holed up in my hotel. I was facing down my 50th birthday, which was a few months away, and I’d been thinking a lot about that, and getting older, it dawned on me that I might have to accept the term “middle-aged,” which I had resisted for so long. I immediately realized that embracing it now meant I would need to live to 100 for this to be the “middle” for me. Reflecting on that, I started writing the song that became “More Days.”
Lyrics
More Days
Lord I get lost
When I see myself in the glass
Could that face really be me?
I’ve chased down my dreams
I’ve played out all my cards
I’m finally starting to see…
I got more days behind me
Twenty thousand setting suns
More days behind me
Fewer days… fewer days to come
I’m losing the fire
A young man brings to the world
I know all these doors may stay closed
I still got some fight
I’ll choose my battles this time
‘Cause I can’t run down every road
I got more days behind me
Twenty thousand setting suns
More days behind me
Fewer days… fewer days to come
Time… is not on my side
My hour has yet to arrive
I’m floating… floating…
I got more days behind me
Twenty thousand setting suns
More days behind me
Fewer days… fewer days to come
