The Songs About Getting Older

[nyadrn]

""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?

[nyadrn]

Grow Old With Me.  Tom Odell

[andreal145682]

RUN, by the Foo Fighters. It is a new song from their latest cd, Concrete and Gold. The band members are getting older, and one of the original members, Pat Smear is 60 years old! They still rock hard, and can throw down a 2 1/2 hour show! Check out the video on youtube.

[LaneyD]

7 Years Old

https://youtu.be/LHCob76kigA  - Lukas Graham 

7 Years

Lukas Graham

Once I was seven years old my momma told me
Go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely
Once I was seven years old

It was a big big world, but we thought we were bigger
Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker
By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor
Never rich so we were out to make that steady figure

Once I was eleven years old my daddy told me
Go get yourself a wife or you'll be lonely
Once I was eleven years old

I always had that dream like my daddy before me
So I started writing songs, I started writing stories
Something about that glory just always seemed to bore me
'Cause only those I really love will ever really know me

Once I was twenty years old, my story got told
Before the morning sun, when life was lonely
Once I was twenty years old

I only see my goals, I don't believe in failure
'Cause I know the smallest voices, they can make it major
I got my boys with me at least those in favor
And if we don't meet before I leave, I hope I'll see you later

Once I was twenty years old, my story got told
I was writing about everything, I saw before me
Once I was twenty years old
Soon we'll be thirty years old, our songs have been sold
We've traveled around the world and we're still roaming
Soon we'll be thirty years old

I'm still learning about life
My woman brought children for me
So I can sing them all my songs
And I can tell them stories
Most of my boys are with me
Some are still out seeking glory
And some I had to leave behind
My brother I'm still sorry

Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one
Remember life and then your life becomes a better one
I made a man so happy when I wrote a letter once
I hope my children come and visit, once or twice a month

Soon I'll be sixty years old, will I think the world is cold
Or will I have a lot of children who can warm me
Soon I'll be sixty years old
Soon I'll be sixty years old, will I think the world is cold
Or will I have a lot of children who can warm me
Soon I'll be sixty years old

Once I was seven years old, momma told me
Go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely
Once I was seven years old

Once I was seven years old

[nyadrn]

Help the Aged.  Pulp.  

"Help the aged, One time they were just like you Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue Help the aged Don't just put them in a home">

[dl73698250]

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@nyadrn wrote:

Help the Aged.  Pulp.  

"Help the aged, One time they were just like you Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue Help the aged Don't just put them in a home">

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Interesting song. Thoughtful. Grown-ups help children to function in the world. Children are the future of the world. Grown up children have new ideas for improvement. Grown up children help elders modernize/cope. Elders converse with others. Old, young, very young come into harmony. Sounds good to me. Circle of life.

[LaneyD]

These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Queen 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4K0scMysc

[oldegranddad]

Growing Older But Not Up - Jimmy Buffett

Old Folks at Home - Stephen Foster

[dannettel450435]

" When I'm 64"  Don't remember the artist, but I like this song.

[vitom712041]

“When I’m 64” is a Paul McCartney song off of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.  Kudos to you for this. I turned 63 on December 7, and told my wife, who loves Sir Paul, I would sing this to her for the entire next year.

[nyadrn]

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vitom712041 wrote:

“When I’m 64” is a Paul McCartney song off of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.  Kudos to you for this. I turned 63 on December 7, and told my wife, who loves Sir Paul, I would sing this to her for the entire next year.

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Awwww  what a nice promise!

[rc61653200]

The Beatles 1967

[nyadrn]

Older. Band of Horses

[oldegranddad]

16 Candles - The Crests

[nyadrn]

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@oldegranddad wrote:

16 Candles - The Crests

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@oldegranddad  Good song!

[tc68626308]

The Beatles

[Epster]

REM  Nightswimming

(... it's not like years ago... )

[175A047B]

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.

[mw19563691]

Theme song to the sitcom series The Big Bang.

[dl73698250]

Tom Waits; Martha

[mw19563691]

 Que Sera, Sera sung by Doris Day

[dl73698250]

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.

[ip3285]

Beautiful poem - wonderful sentiments, good verse, very meaningful. Thanks for sharing it.

[debrak248584]

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...

But it stopped, short never to go again
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 it kept in its place, not a frown upon its face
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

[rpschaeff32]

Grow Old Along With Me by Nora Jones

This is a sweet song about growing older with someone you love.

[dl73698250]

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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.

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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.

[debrak248584]

Heart of Gold by Neil Young.....and I'm gettin' old.....Keep me seaching for a Heart of Gold....

[LaneyD]

Reminicsing ~ Little River Band

https://g.co/kgs/9uumJG

[tr5321]

Old Folk's Boogie - Little Feat

[LaneyD]

Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin

Old Man - Neil Young

[kh2942]

Joe Walsh:  Life's Been Good to Me (so far!)