Intro - These Days (Live)

This is a really old song

I wrote this when I was about sixteen

Although not precisely in this form

And uh, several people recorded it before I had a chance to

But I think I did play on the first recorded version of it, and uh

It was a record made by a singer named Nico, and uh

Who had been in the Velvet Underground and was making a solo record

I didn't play acoustic guitar, even though I played this very thing

'Cause Andy Warhol, who was sort-of managing her

Thought she should sound more modern

So I, I played it on an electric guitar

Then they put a string quartet on it, that was really modern

Well, anyway, I forgot that I told them that they could use this in a movie

Completely—said it was okay and then I just completely forgot about it

So I was sitting in a movie theater

And this guitar music came on and I thought

"Well, I used to play just like that"