Past Won't Leave My Bed

Album

Piss in the Wind

Label

Virgin Records

Genre

Ballad

Composer(s)

George Miller;Jonathan Xavier Cunningham;Dan Farber;Veronica Goudie;P.J.A. Williams

Entered Chart

Nov 22, 2025

Peak Date

Nov 22, 2025

Released

7 November 2025

"Past Won't Leave My Bed" finds Joji once again caught between melancholy and melody, that half-dreaming state he's made his trademark. It's a sad piano ballad in which he can't shake the ghost of an ex; she's everywhere Joji looks, haunting the corners of every waking moment. The only time she fades is in sleep, and even that's a brief reprieve. There are echoes of "Run," another song where Joji can't escape his feelings for a former lover. Like much of Joji's catalog, it feels intimate enough to be a diary entry, though he's quick to insist otherwise. Joji has said he's after emotional truth, not literal confession, more "Slow Dancing In The Dark" than "This Is What Actually Happened." Joji wrote the song with Dan Farber, Jonathan Xavier Cunningham, Veronica Goudie (credited as Fussy), and P.J.A. Williams. Farber, an Israeli-born producer who has built a strong reputation in alternative R&B and pop production, was grateful to be part of the project, noting that "Joji's artistry and vision always carry that rare allure and creativity." The accompanying video, directed by Ethan Eng, looks like something discovered on a forgotten camcorder, all grain and ghosts. Shot across the backroads of North America, it follows a drifting hitchhiker whose memories seem to leak into the scenery. Ethan Eng's directorial resumé also includes the critically acclaimed indie film Therapy Dogs (2022), which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and received lots of positive attention.

This room could be haunted, a vision to the blind
Wishing sleep held me in her arms forever
Shadows dance around, perfectly blurring up the lines
Hallucinations start to intertwine

I open my eyes
Her face lingers on the walls
She's stuck on rewind in my mind
I try to move on, but the past won't leave my bed

I hear it all the time like the wind between the chimes
Holding on to what we had together
A single note of my persistent hopeless lullabies
I know that I can't sleep forever

I open my eyes
Her face lingers on the walls
She's stuck on rewind in my mind
I try to move on, but the past won't leave my bed

I open my eyes
Her face lingers on the walls
She's stuck on rewind in my mind

I try to move on, but the past won't leave my bed