The Real Meaning Behind 'Good Days' By SZA

With a chorus that goes, "Good days, always inside / Good day living in my mind," Genius wrote about the tune that "SZA tries to move away from past and present negativity, looking forward to the future instead."

2020 was a dark year for SZA, as it was for many of us. As the star told Rolling Stone, it included the death of her grandmother, who she was extremely close with. "My grandma was like my best friend," she told the outlet. "It was the longest five months of my life." That low point led to, as SZA put it, her "own journey out of this dark-a** depression," which included exercise, Pilates, and meditation. "You really have to choose to feel better. You have to. Have to," SZA tearfully added to Rolling Stone. "Because if you don't, you just die."

SZA elaborated on how she brought that mantra into "Good Days" in the comments section of a YouTube fan video. "Good days is a mantra, More than... a belief," she wrote on Feb. 21, 2021. "Good days is about not being sure .. not Sure hope is still a thing, not sure better is coming, not sure any of even it matters. its an acknowledgement were all in the same ugly chaotic beautiful existence. We're all shattered and stretched beyond our means in all Ways."

She added that the song embodies "shared energy," "possibility," and "A SLIVER of hope.. not even a whole lot. A reminder to OURSELVES .. that a sliver is sometimes all u need." Amen to that.

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