[Verse 1]
I woke up 20 minutes late
What late excuse am I gonna use today
Espresso is weak, gas ain't cheap
I'll be sitting in traffic til I turn 83
GPS says, she's recalculating
Didn't know I was but now I'm contemplating
Is it worth it to get worked up
[Chorus]
It's been one of those days
When you wake up not knowing
Where your life is going, hey
It's gonna be okay
Even if the sky is gray
No matter what I'm going through
I know you're gonna show me the way
Even when it's one of those days
Even when it's one of those days
[Verse 2]
Clock in, clock out, we the grown ups now
Clean face, clean plate, don't forget to work out
Call ya elders go to therapy better know a notary
The brakes on your rover need a rotor and improve your sleep
Pay ya uncle even tho you not you related
Tell everybody happy birthday not belated
Please rewind, more time would be kind
Back to the yellow and blue video tape line
[Chorus]
It's been one of those days
When you wake up not knowing
Where your life is going, hey
It's gonna be okay
Even if the sky is gray
No matter what I'm going through
I know you're gonna show me the way
Even when it's one of those days
Even when it's one of those days
It's been one of those days
When you wake up not knowing
Where your life is going, hey
It's gonna be okay
Even if the sky is gray
No matter what I'm going through
I know you're gonna show me the way
Even when it's one of those days
Even when it's one of those days
One Of Those Days
Song Meaning
Jamie Grace keeps "One Of Those Days" deliberately small-scale — a late start, a weak espresso, a GPS recalculating a wrong turn. None of it is a real crisis, which is exactly the song's point: the promise it offers isn't reserved for catastrophic days, it's meant for the merely frustrating, forgettable ones too.
"When you wake up not knowing where your life is going" widens the scope briefly from a bad morning to something closer to genuine uncertainty, without the song losing its light, conversational tone. "It's gonna be okay, even if the sky is gray" doesn't claim the day will improve — only that its outcome isn't what determines whether things are actually okay.
The second verse pivots to adult responsibilities piling up — bills, appointments, family obligations — before circling back to the same refrain, treating "no matter what I'm going through" as a phrase built to cover both the trivial and the genuinely heavy without needing a separate song for each.