Better Days is about social anxiety and how the inability to make connections growing up can affect trying to make connections in the present. I wrote this song when I was dealing with an abnormal amount of social anxiety, and I had the persistent feeling that if I didn’t get everything right, people would just disappear. It’s hard to deal with this and simultaneously want people to “bear with you” but also not want them to feel responsible for healing the past hurt that still affects you to this day.

The recording of this track was a rollercoaster. This track had not been fleshed out in a demo, so I just brought it to the studio with a few rough ideas and a scratch track. During one of the drumming sessions, we started working on this track, and not only was it hard to figure out the exact feel for the rhythm, but at some point the metronome got shifted over a whole beat. We were working on this track up until around 11pm when, Sean and Luke looked over and me and we were all like “Let’s call it a night”. The next day, I started looking at the scratch track to see where things went wrong, and not only were there 2 tempo changes in the bridge, but there was a bar of 5/4 at the beginning of the bridge, which resulted in the beat shift of the metronome. Coming back with fresh ears and a custom metronome track, Luke knocked out the drum track and we started work on the rest. Sean came up with this really punchy electric guitar track, and I was able to play around with frankensteining a keyboard track.

I felt that this track was a fitting end to the project, especially since it bookends the project with the sentiment “I’m tired”.