Songfacts®:

• Brandi Carlile wrote this poignant lullaby with her longtime collaborators, twin brothers Phil and Tim Hanseroth, which finds them giving advice to their children on how to move on after their parents die someday. The inevitability was on the musicians' minds during the COVID-19 pandemic, when they all hunkered down together to write In These Silent Days on their shared property, nicknamed "The Compound," in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state.
  
  Their closeness bleeds into the music. "I know everything that's going on in our lives and everything that they're going through, and I'm going through it, too. So the way that we write right now is pretty humanly interchangeable," Carlile told Stereogum. "When Tim brought 'This Time Tomorrow' to the table and the three of us put our voices onto it and our hearts into it, we knew we were basically creating an heirloom. We were basically creating a family heirloom for the kids that, pray to God, are going to outlive us by a margin."
• Carlile performed the song live on TV for the first time on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, November 8, 2021.
• In These Silent Days was named Best Americana Album at the 2023 Grammy Awards, where she was also awarded the Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance trophies for "Broken Horses."