Songbook / words & recordings
These Days
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01 / The words
Wildman / Marsden / Downing / Downing · Lyrics: Wildman
From the 1996 sessions · Reconstructed 2026 · Doomed To Live, Side B
How you coping these days? How's the revolution, child? You make more money in the end You can sit back and relax a while Things are different these days Round and round on the gravy train I'll never work and crap, kill the rich How quickly your ideas have, I guess Changed Like the summer washed away by the sea Changed Just your life turned green Changed just like me We're both much better off these days Surrounded by hypocrisy But after all it's just to kill ourselves I don't know why I don't let it bother me Yes, sometimes prices these days I gotta move on my new car I gotta wife at home with all mod cons I never even dreamt I'd get this far Things are so much different these days And everything we do, we do with style And when I come back off my holidays We'll have to get together for a while Things are different Things are so much different these days Things are different these days
03 / The dossier
About this song.
- Written by
- Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman
- Work
- Original
A satire of revolutionary certainty ageing into cars, holidays, domestic comfort and postponed revolution. Its saving move is self-implication: the singer has changed too.
Source & versions
The surviving source material came from different versions at different speeds, including an 8-track master-tape source that was backwards. That the song survives in recoverable form at all is remarkable.
04 / The artwork
Visualising the song.
