Songs About Growing Up or Growing Old

[LouLit01]

When I'm 64

DBEATLS

[BeatleloverKT]

(Just like) Starting Over by John Lennon

[cm9889168]

"Who Knows Where the Time Goes"

                 by Judy Collins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onKhceL303M

"Who knows where the time goes?
And I am not alone while my love is near me
I know it will be so until it's time to go
So come the storms of winter and then 
The birds in spring again
I have no fear of time
For who knows how my love grows?
And who knows where the time goes?"

[BeatleloverKT]

Yester me yester you yesterday by Stevie Wonder

[WebWiseWoman]

"I'm an old, old man" - Merle Haggard

[BeatleloverKT]

1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins. About the transition from youth into adulthood.

[BeatleloverKT]

A new day has come by Celine Dion. A song about her long awaited quest to have a child. Her voice is just beautiful 

[MaVolta]

Memory (from Cats) - Elaine Page, Barbara Streisand, Jennifer Hudson, and others

[BeatleloverKT]

Best day of my life by the American Authors

[1968Hoya46]

Bobby Sox To Stockings: Frankie Avalon (a truly lame song).

[MaVolta]

Much Too Young (to feel this **bleep** old) - Garth Brooks

[MarybethG691589]

The Logical Song by Supertramp 

[BeatleloverKT]

Young by the Chainsmokers

[MaVolta]

Live Before You Die - Bon Jovi

I was a little boy of 9 years old
The whole world in my hands
Trying to toss that ball across the yard
A game of catch with my old man
He would always say I'm sorry
Every time he had to leave
And I was much too young to understand
When he would say to me

When you're young, you always think
The sun is gonna shine
There will come a day when you have to say hello to goodbye
Sit down son come take my hand
Look me in the eye
Take these words, promise me
You'll live before you die

I was barely seventeen, summer of seventy-nine
Already I was feeling like I was running out of time
I had this girl, we fell in love
Or should I say that she had me
That fateful night changed our lives
And made a memory

When you're young, you always think
The sun is gonna to shine
There will come a day when you have to say hello to goodbye
She laid me down, she took my hand
Looked me in the eye
And just before she kissed me she said
You gotta live before you die
Live before you die

You learn to love, to live
You fight and you forgive
You learn what's wrong and right
You live before you die

I've made mistakes, I've caught some breaks
But I got no regrets
There's some things I don't remember
But one thing I don't forget

When you're young, you always think
The sun is gonna shine
One day you're going to have to say hello to goodbye
Shout it out, let someone somewhere know you're alive
Take these words wear 'em well
Live before you die
Live before you die
Hey
Live before you die

You learn to love, to live
You fight and you forgive
You face the darkest night
Just live before you die

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Richie Sambora / Jon Bon Jovi

Live Before You Die lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

[MarybethG691589]

Still the Same Bob Seger

[BeatleloverKT]

No such thing by John Mayer

"I want to run through the halls of my high school

I want to scream at the top of my lungs 

I just found out there's no such thing as the real world

Just a lie you've got to rise above"......

[MarybethG691589]

Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell

[BeatleloverKT]

Blessed by Sir Elton

[1968Hoya46]

Patches: Clarence Carter (On the day his father died Patches became a man, at age 13. Against all odds, he held his family together. Talk about growing up quickly!)

[BeatleloverKT]

All of my life by Phil Collins

"All of my life, I've been saying sorry

For the things I know I should of done

All the things I could of said come back to me

Sometimes I wish that it had just begun

Seems I'm always that little too late

All of my life"......

[BeatleloverKT]

Ride my see-saw by the Moody Blues

"I worked like a slave for years

Sweat so hard just to end my fears

Not to end my life a poor man

But by now, I know I should have ran"......

[LouLit01]

19th Nervous Breakdown

The Rolling Stones

When you were a child you were treated kind
But you were never brought up right
You were always spoiled with a thousand toys but still you cried all night
Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax
And your father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

You were still in school when you had that fool who really messed your mind
And after that you turned your back on treating people kind
On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind
But after a while I realized you were disarranging mine

[BeatleloverKT]

Little old lady from Pasadena by the Beach Boys 

[1968Hoya46]

Big Man: Four Preps (he's grown up and matured, emotionally, because he now realizes what a jerk he was. Too little too late in this case).

[cm9889168]

"Matthew"  by John Denver

"Yes, and joy was just a thing that he was raised on,
love was just a way to live and die.
Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field,
blue was just the Kansas summer sky."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xB3-N85N20

[1968Hoya46]

Graduation Day: The Four Freshmen

[BeatleloverKT]

22 by Taylor Swift. Oh to even be close to that age now......

[MarybethG691589]

Magic Power by Triumph

[BeatleloverKT]

Looking for space by John Denver

[MaVolta]

Changing my post to this one (Hazy Shade of Winter was already mentioned)

Leaves That Are Green - S&G

I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song
I'm twenty-two now but I won't be for long
Time hurries on
And the leaves that are green
Turn to brown
And they wither in the wind
And they crumble in your hand
Once my heart was filled with the love of a girl

I held her close but she faded in the night
Like a poem I meant to write
And the leaves that are green
Turn to brown
And they wither with the wind
And they crumble in your hand
I threw a pebble in a brook
And watched the ripples run away

And they never made a sound
And the leaves that are green
Turn to brown
And they wither iwith the wind
And they crumble in your hand
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
That's all there is
And the leaves that are green
Turn to brown

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Paul Simon

Leaves That Are Green lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

[DMAFl]

Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin.   Most fun version to me is the performance by the Foo Fighters with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones at Wembley Stadium.