[Verse 1] I spent so long chasing some finish line up ahead, waiting for the someday, living everywhere but here instead; I'll be happy when I make it, when I've got it all arranged — then I blinked and half my life had slipped right through the change. But this morning hit different, felt the sun like it was new, heard my own heart beating out a rhythm like a drum; and it hit me like a wave that I could barely comprehend: the days I'd miss forever were the ones that I was in. [Pre-Chorus] So I'm done waiting on the mountaintop to finally feel alive — the miracle ain't coming, it's the breath I'm breathing right now. [Chorus] These are the days, these are the days, the ones you'll wish you back when your hair goes gray; so don't you look away, don't you wait to celebrate — raise it up right now, 'cause these are the days. The ordinary Tuesday, the drive, the little laugh, the golden era's happening — it's the one you almost passed; one day you'll give it all just to have a single one, so live it like you love it, 'cause these are the days, these are the days. [Verse 2] It's not the big ones you remember, it's the small ones that you keep, the kitchen and the coffee and the people that you meet; the joke that wasn't funny but you couldn't stop the tears, the nothing little moments that turn out to be the years. So put the phone down for a minute, look 'em in the eyes, you don't get the day back, and nobody gets the time; stop postponing all the living for a someday down the road — the whole thing, all of it, is the story that you're told. [Chorus] These are the days, these are the days, the ones you'll wish you back when your hair goes gray; so don't you look away, don't you wait to celebrate — raise it up right now, 'cause these are the days. The ordinary Tuesday, the drive, the little laugh, the golden era's happening — it's the one you almost passed; one day you'll give it all just to have a single one, so live it like you love it, 'cause these are the days, these are the days. [Bridge] 'Cause nobody's promised morning, nobody's owed the light, and the ones we love the most, we act like they're gon' stay all night; so kiss 'em while you got 'em, laugh until it hurts, be here, all the way here, for whatever this is worth — 'cause the good old days you're chasing, the ones inside your head, you're standing in the middle of 'em right now, so turn 'em up instead. [Outro] These are the days. These are the days. Don't you miss it while you're in it — these are the days.
