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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 1965โand 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 ironiesโand the indignities and the gloriesโof old age."
What are the songs that talk about getting older, looking back, etc?
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@oldegranddad wrote:16 Candles - The Crests
@oldegranddad Good song!
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My song about getting older is "Something has Changed Me" found on www.cdbaby.com. Great song about growing up too fast, but none the less is happy about it now.
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When Reflections Of My Life by Marmalade came out, I was too young to have a life of my own to reflect back on. When my grandma died, I reflected back on her life. When my mom died, ditto. The death & reflection was sort of a deja vu all over again. After my mom's funeral, I wrote this poem:
Thoughtful Spirits
When the sky is clear, and the stars are bright,
And the moon is full, in the dead of night,
Take a good freind, for an inspiring walk,
To an old graveyard, where spirits talk.
Dressed in reverence, so they tolerate you there,
You might hear the whispers, that permeate the air.
Some of history. Some of dreams. Some of fantasies.
And some of their intended legacies.
Families & Freinds, thru the continuum of time,
Imagine life, as past, present, & future align.
Where did we come from, and where will we go?
And how important, are the things we don't know?
In our struggle 'n' strife, to be the best,
How important, are all the rest?
Other people's lives, influence our being.
Is death "moving on", or merely fleeing?
If they could do it, all over again and live,
What kind of advice, would they begin to give?
What is important? And what doesn't matter?
Don't ashes-to-ashes, & dust-to-dust just scatter?
Will heavenly riches, be available on Earth?
Will earthly riches, matter after a "second birth"?
What DO we take with us, after we die?
A spirit won't need, a pie-in-the-sky.
And a spirit doesn't need, a pie-on-Earth,
Unless its body, can use its worth.
So what has been tried, and what is true?
And what is important, on this Earth so blue?
Can we take anything with us, as we pass thru?
Or must we start over, totally anew?
But whether good or bad, all the vibes we've felt,
All we can do, is play the cards we're dealt.
And all the gravestones, standing like cards in the ground,
Are played no more, but still make a silent sound.
Invisible ghosts, can be seen in your head,
As you try to make sense, of the living dead.
But it's easier to make sense, of the dead giving,
Than to make sense, of the dying living.
So take a good friend, for an inspiring walk,
To an old graveyard, where spirits talk.
Dressed in reverence, so they tolerate you there,
You might hear the whispers, that permeate air.
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My Grandfathers Clock, author?
Always a favorite song we sang with our children.
....so it stood ninety years on the floor.
It was taller by half than the old man itself,
thought it weighed not a penny weight more.
It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born,
it was always his treasure and pride...
When the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering
tik,tlk,tik,tok
His life seconds numbering
tik,tok,tik,tok
It stopped, short never to go again
When the old man died
My grandfather said that of those he could hire
Not a servant so faithful he found
For it wasted no time and had but one desire
At the close of each week to be wound
And its hands never hung by its side
But it stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died
It rang and alarmed in the dead of the night
An alarm that for years had been dumb
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight
That his hour for departure had come
Still the clock kept the time with a soft and muffled chime
As we silently stood by his side
But it stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering
His life seconds numbering
It stopped short, never to go again
When the old man died
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@rpschaeff32 wrote:Grow Old Along With Me by Nora Jones
This is a sweet song about growing older with someone you love.
This song was written by John Lennon. Mary Chapin Carpenter did a cover of it, and sounds a lot like Nora Jones. I couldn't find a Nora Jones version. Good song tho. Nora Jones did have a song called Come Away With Me.
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Classics IV; Traces (Souveniers of times together)
Marty Robbins; Amoung My Souveniers
Marty Robbins; Some Memories Just Won't Die
Jim Croce; Photographs & Memories
Rose Garden; Long Time (not sure about this one. Just empty, spent time)
Motherlode; When I Die
Rascal Flatts; When the Sands Run Out
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Gordon Lightfoot; Circle Of Steel (...that's how it goes)
Lulu; To Sir With Love (...from crayons to perfume)
Blur; To The End (What happened to us? Soon it will be gone forever. ....to the end)
Ozzy Osborne; Dreamer
Garth Brooks; Too Toung To Feel This Old
Les Cowboys Fringants; Toune d'Automne (Forgive me. I have no idea what this song is about. All I know is that it's a Tune Of Autumn (of life?). Maybe somebody can translate it for me. I love the music.)
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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)
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