The Songs About Getting Older

Young at Heart by Frank Sinatra beacause that's how I feel.  However, a close second is the Beatle's song "When I'm 64" because it's so funny, even though I'd have to think back a long way to remember being 64!

Living on Love  ----  not sure who the author is, but it is Country Western

"Creakin and Achin Aint  What I Had In Mind" , by the Blue Ridge Brothers.

Has anyone mentioned "Landslide" by Stevie Nicks yet or "When I'm 64" by The Beatles? Those were the first ones to come to mind.  

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@nyadrn wrote:

""Hope I die before I get old," sang 21-year-old Roger Daltrey in 1965—and 43 years later, he's still singing it. Rock 'n' roll has always been invested in a Byronic cult of blazing youth and beautiful corpses. But as tyros have turned into reunion-tour warhorses, rockers have had to come to terms with the ironies—and the indignities and the glories—of old age."

 

What are the songs that talk about getting older, looking back, etc?

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Silver Threads among the Gold

I just cannot let this one go unmentioned:

Marmalade; Reflections Of My Life

Mary Hopkin; Those Were the Days

"Time" by Pink Floyd.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day.
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town.
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

When you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking;
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way that you're older.
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter; never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Mike & The Mechanics; The Living Years 

4 Him; Future Generations

Eagles; It's Your World Now

Fireballs; Goin' Away

Donovan; People Used To

Donovan; There Was A Time

Donovan; Hurdy Gurdy Man (Histories of ages past,....down thru all eternity, the crying of humanity).

Donovan; Riki Tiki Tavi (When I was a young man, I was lead to believe.....  When I got a little older...)

Donovan; Yellow Star (It's all in the dance of life, my friend)

Donovan; The Quest. (You've just begun for to awaken)

Donovan; Lalena (Can your part get much sadder? That's your lot in life Lalena. I can't blame ya)

Donovan; Gold Watch Blues (We only take men who work until they die)