“10 Days Late” by Third Eye Blind

"10 Days Late" was the third single Third Eye Blind pulled from Blue, their second album, and it came out in 2000. Stephan Jenkins and Arion Salazar wrote it, and the title's panic is the point: it's written about one of Jenkins's friends, who got his girlfriend pregnant young, and Jenkins ended up as the baby's godfather. He framed it as a song about life barging in and upending whatever you had going.

Jenkins sings lead and plays guitar and percussion, Kevin Cadogan adds guitar, Brad Hargreaves drums, and Salazar covers bass, guitar, backing vocals and, yes, theremin. The two writers share the production credit with the Mud Sisters and the band, and Tom Lord-Alge and Femio Hernandez mixed. It hung around the Modern Rock Tracks chart for 10 weeks and topped out at number 21, and Francis Lawrence directed the video, which puts the band in a living room.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.