Songs About Growing Up or Growing Old

[LouLit01]

When I'm 64

DBEATLS

[BeatleloverKT]

Part of the plan by Dan Fogelberg 

[cm9889168]

"American Pie"  by Don McLean

"Now, for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone
But, that's not how it used to be"

Great video that fits the lyrics (IMO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZFiMo8TIc

[BeatleloverKT]

Same old Lang syne by Dan Fogelberg 

[cm9889168]

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@BeatleloverKT wrote:

Same old Lang syne by Dan Fogelberg 

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I've always loved this song. Ever heard the story behind it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pEWQMsaqg

[MaVolta]

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@cm9889168 wrote:

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@BeatleloverKT wrote:

Same old Lang syne by Dan Fogelberg 

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I've always loved this song. Ever heard the story behind it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pEWQMsaqg

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Same here. I've always been a fan, and thought this song probably had a true story in the background. Thanks for posting it! 

[BeatleloverKT]

Touch of grey by the Grateful Dead

[BeatleloverKT]

I have always loved his music. Enjoyed the video- I always felt it was a true story. Thanks for sharing!

[BeatleloverKT]

Hey Nineteen by Steely Dan

[BeatleloverKT]

Happy Christmas (War is over) by John Lennon

[1968Hoya46]

Still Crazy After All These Years: Paul Simon

[1968Hoya46]

Things We Said Today: Beatles (Someday when we're dreaming, deep in love not a lot to say, then we will remember things we said today).

[BeatleloverKT]

End of the line by the Traveling Wilburys 

[LouLit01]

Night Moves
Bob Seger

I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in

[1968Hoya46]

Come Back When You Grow Up: Bobby Vee

[cm9889168]

"Cherry Bomb"  by John (Cougar) Mellancamp

"One night me with my big mouth
A couple guys had to put me in my place
When I see those guys these days
We just laugh and say do you remember when

That's when a sport was a sport
And groovin' was groovin'
And dancin' meant everything
We were young and we were improvin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0gsbQKhD8

[1968Hoya46]

Paradise By The Dashboard Light: Meatloaf (to complete this teenage sexual moment in a car, he promises to love her till the end of time....sometime later [I interpret it as years later when they've grown some] he's praying for the end of time so he can end his time with her).

[BeatleloverKT]

Thinking out loud by Ed Sheeran. He wonders what it will be like to still be in love with his sweetheart years from now. A beautiful love song encompassing the inevitable effects of aging

[CherylR914199]

                              Heart of Gold

                                 Neil Young

I want to live,

I want to give

I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

It's these expressions I never give

That keep me searching for a heart of gold

And I'm getting old.

I found my heart of gold in my granddaughter, she is a NICU nurse.  Have you found your heart of gold?

[LouLit01]

Comfortably Numb

Pink Floyd

When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb

[1968Hoya46]

Jack And Diane: John Mellencamp (Jack tells Diane that they should hold on to their youth because it ain't gonna last forever).

[cm9889168]

"Dance Me To the End of Love"

    By Leonard Cohen

(To me this is such a beautiful video and song about growing old.  Watch this and tell me what you think.  I have friends who played this for their wedding dance.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGorjBVag0I

[MarybethG691589]

Handle With Care by The Traveling Wilburys

[1968Hoya46]

Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen

[LouLit01]

No Surrender

Bruce Springsteen

Well, we busted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three-minute record, baby
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer's sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down

Well, now young faces grow sad and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers against the wind
Now I'm ready to grow young again

[MaVolta]

The Boxer - S&G

Paul Simon said the song was autobiographical in nature. There was a fourth verse written but not performed on the single release, although they did sing it in live shows, at times. 

“Now the years are rolling by me / They are rocking evenly / I am older than I once was / And younger than I’ll be / But that’s not unusual / No, it isn’t strange / After changes upon changes / We are more or less the same / After changes we are / More or less the same.”

Read More: Simon & Garfunkel, ‘The Boxer’ – Lyrics Uncovered | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/simon-garfunkel-the-boxer-lyrics-uncovered/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_m...

[BeatleloverKT]

Highlands by Dylan. He goes from one subject to another and the song is permeated with the theme of death. "I wish someone'd come and push back the clock for me"  Me too Bob 

[MaVolta]

Children

Birds Of A Feather

Don't It Make You Want To Go Home - All by Joe South

All have themes of reminiscing childhood. Joe South, apparently my artist of the day! I love listening to his music.

[BeatleloverKT]

Don't forget to remember me by Carrie Underwood

[MaVolta]

Wasted On The Way - CS&N  (awesome lyrics by Graham Nash)

Look around me
I can see my life before me
Running rings around the way
It used to be
I am older now
I have more than what I wanted
But I wish that I had started
Long before I did
And there's so much time to make up
Everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
Oh when you were young
Did you question all the answers
Did you envy all the dancers
Who had all the nerve
Look round you know
You must go for what you wanted
Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved
And there's so much time to make up
Everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
And there's so much love to make up
Everywhere you turn
Love we have wasted on the way
So much water moving
Underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
Let the water come and carry us away

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Graham Nash

Wasted on the Way lyrics © Nash Notes, Nash Notes (BMI), SONY/ATV SONGS LLC OBO NASH NOTES

[1968Hoya46]

I Dreamed About Mama Last Night: Hank Williams, Johnny Cash (a little schmaltzy, but I bet you'll still tear up listening to it).