The second single from Whitney’s debut album, Light Upon the Lake, “Golden Days” was the third completed song, following “Dave’s Song” and “On My Own”. The track changed the scope of the entire album during the artistic process.
While the album version employs punchy horns and crisp instrumentation...
[Verse 1]
Oh, don't you save me from hangin' on
I tell myself what we had is gone
And after all that I put you through
I get knocked out like I never knew
[Chorus]
It kept me real 'til I'm moving on
But you can't leave feeling like you did no wrong
It's a shame I can't get it together now
It's a shame we can't get it together now
'Cause I'm aching but
[Verse 2]
I fell right in when you gave me up
Those golden days snuck away from us
Lately, I've been close but I'm up to trouble
Those golden days keep you hanging on
[Chorus]
It kept me real 'til I'm movin' on
But you can't leave feeling like you did no wrong
It's a shame I can't get it together now
It's a shame we can't get it together now
'Cause I'm searching for those golden days
[Outro]
'Cause I'm searching for those golden days
Golden Days was written by Max Kakacek & Julien Ehrlich.
Golden Days was produced by Whitney & Jonathan Rado.
Whitney released Golden Days on Wed Mar 23 2016.
Ehrlich and Kakacek cite “Golden Days” as the song that made them want to seriously pursue making music as Whitney.
Ehrlich: “We were tapping into something we had never really heard before. We figured that as long as we kept our heads down and continued in that direction, people would one day frea...
The band tweeted that both Max and Julien’s exes called them crying after they got the demo.
Julien: ‘Golden Days’ is the song we both sent our ex-girlfriends after we made it, to get some kind of closure. I remember sending it to her and she just started bawling. It wasn’t even in a sense of getti...