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The Songs About Getting Older
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The Songs About Getting Older
""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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Simon and Garfunkel: Old Friends from the Bookends album
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
On the high shoes
Of the old friends
Old friends
Winter companions
The old men
Lost in their overcoats
Waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city
Sifting through trees
Settle like dust
On the shoulders
Of the old friends
Can you imagine us
Years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventy
Old friends
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear
Time it was
And what a time it was
It was . . .
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago . . . it must be . . .
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They're all that's left you
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When I was Seventeen (Sinatra)
The Best is Yet to Come (Sinatra)
Too Old to Cut the Mustard (Clooney & Dietrich)
Let's Hang on to What We Got (Frankie Valle & The Four Seasons)
Try to Remember (Nana Mouskouri)
Sunrise Sunset (Theme song for Fiddler on the Roof)
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"Forever Young" - the Rod Stewart version. As you grow may you always stay young in mind an spirit.
And may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home.
And my you grow to be proud, dignified and true.
And do unto others as you'd have done to you.
Be courageous and be brave.
And in my heart you'll always stay
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. Forever young
May good fortune be with you, may your guiding light be strong,
Build a stairway to heaven with a prince or a vagabond.
And may you never love in vain.
And in my heart you will remain
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. Forever young
And when you fin'lly fly away, I'll be hoping that I served you well.
For all the wisdom of a lifetime, no one can ever tell.
But whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose,
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. Forever young
For forever young
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For decades, my favorite is "Hello In There," by John Prine. He's still gettin' around and singin' it!
"Hello In There"
Me and Loretta liked living there.
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,
A life of their own left us alone.
John and Linda live in Omaha,
And Joe is somewhere on the road.
We lost Davy in the Korean war,
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.
[Chorus:]
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."
Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more,
She sits and stares through the back door screen.
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen.
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy,
We worked together at the factory.
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do."
[Chorus]
So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello."
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One more - Through The Years by Kenny Rogers:
When I didn't care for anyone but you
I swear we've been through everything there is
Can't imagine anything we've missed
Can't imagine anything the two of us can't do
You've never let me down
You turned my life around
The sweetest days I've found
I've found with you
Through the years
I've never been afraid
I've loved the life we've made
And I'm so glad I've stayed
Right here with you
Through the years
Who I trusted whom, I listened to before
I swear you've taught me everything I know
Can't imagine needing someone so
But through the years it seems to me
I need you more and more
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My absolutely favorite: Beautiful in My Eyes by Joshua Kadison:
in this crazy world.
Your're everything I've tried to find,
your love is a pearl.
and my only prayer, is that you realize,
you'll always be beautiful, in my eyes.
and the seasons will change.
And all the lessons we will learn,
will be beautiful and strange.
My only prayer, is that you realize.
You'll always be beautiful, in my eyes.
And the passing years will show,
that you will always grow,
evermore beautiful, in my eyes.
from a lifetime of smiles.
But when the time comes to embrace.
for one long last while.
We won't say goodbye, 'cause true-love never dies.
You'll always be beautiful, in my eyes.
And the passing years will show,
that you will always grow,
evermore beautiful, in my eyes.
that you will always grow,
evermore beautiful, in my eyes.
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Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
'Til the landslide brought it down
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older, too
Oh, I'm getting older, too
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I wrote a song called "Spring's Training" which seems to usually get a laugh and a nod from audiences. One of the verses goes
Everyday I force myself to walk
I'm drinking protein shakes like a jock
Bulking up around my wastelIne
Oh the jowls on this jawline
Why won't that spring spell work on me
Spring's training
I'm complaining
I'm being cut from the team
It would seem
Eddy Delbridge
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