Joelistics: Days was one of the only songs I wrote from scratch when I got back to Australia. I was trying to come to terms with the large debt I had incurred from my travels and was considering the immediate future and asking myself a series of depressing questions:
Do I want to try and make a living off music again? Should I buckle down and get a real job? Where the hell is my centre? Does anything I do matter? Do I even like rapping any more? All the questions that one eventually comes to once the thrill of touring and releasing albums wears off and you realise you’ve spent a good proportion of your twenties with a hangover, poor credit and leaving a trail of failed relationships in your wake. In response to the malaise I thought I’d write an uplifting little ditty that addressed the issue.
I sat down with a guitar, wrote the melody and then wrote the beat around the chord progression. I like performing Days, I like how honest it is and how at the end of the song I can basically list a bunch of random shit and say that it knows how I feel.
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