Jackson Browne released a new song, “A Little Soon to Say,” on March 29, a few days after revealing he tested positive for COVID-19.

The track is part of his upcoming album, which is due out on October 9.

Browne told Rolling Stone that he wrote the song well before the coronavirus pandemic, but he thought he would “‘Just do that now.’ Just put it out now, while these things are so uncertain.”

He noted that the song was inspired by other things happening in the world now, and that he was “thinking about the generation — the Parkland students, and Greta Thunberg, and the young people who have been very vocal, saying, ‘You’re not making any real attempt to change things in a way for us to have the planet you had.’ How do you pass this mess on to the next generation, the future generations?”

“I wanna see you holding out your light/I wanna see you light the way,” he sings. “But whether everything will be alright/It’s just a little soon to say.”

The song will appear as the B-side to his upcoming single, “Downhill From Everywhere,” which is scheduled for a vinyl and CD release on May 29.

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