For me, writing song lyrics comes about in different ways. Sometimes, I aim to write a song and other times I try to accomplish something else and end up writing a song. Often, lyrics come out of trying to cope or process something uncomfortable. Gray Days came out of a combination of emotionally taxing situations that left me feeling unrightly judged and unfairly treated.
At a younger point in my life, the kinds of situations that inspired the lyrics of Gray Days may have left me weak, exposed, and vulnerable, but in this new era, “I won't get down on my knees" (lyrics from Gray Days by GLITA, 2025). Not only will I not get down on my knees but I also want people to know that their “compass is not my compass". No one person is the ultimate ruler of right and wrong, good morals, bad values, whatever it may be. There is no black and white, right and wrong, good person bad person. It's all gray. It is all nuanced, and “these gray days amaze me". The finishing line, “I'm not young me” signifies the change between the youthful insecurity and extremes of the early twenties and the confidence and fight that develops in the late twenties. No longer will I put up with what I won't put up with. I simply “crawled out of my grave, decided I'll see another day." I'm not young me.
~GLITA
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