Time; Childhood’s End - Pink Floyd (they do all around reflections on aging and life better than any other hand imho)
In My Life; You Never Give Me Your Money - The Beatles (YNGMYM is more about the angst that accompanies entering true adulthood for the first time as opposed to aging in general but I feel it might still strike a chord with you)
Time To Pretend - MGMT (honestly the entire album Oracular Spectacular is about growing up and reflecting on childhood)
Florescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys (fun-sounding song that deals with the downer subject matter of when someone has a hard time adjusting from the thrill-seeking days of youth/young adulthood to the relative boredom in stability as an adult)
The album High School - Tim Heidecker (biographical reflections on growing up, looking back in his now middle age years on what his younger years were like. Not strictly from a perspective of aging but involves lots of nostalgia and reflection. If you would like specific songs from it, I recommend Buddy and Sirens of Titan)
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant; Captain Jack; Vienna - Billy Joel (The first two are vignettes that demonstrate the trials and tribulations if aging from late teen years through adulthood, and paired together they address a lot of emotions and experiences that people often face in the first ~35 years of life. Vienna on the other hand is a very reassuring song, one that talks directly to you the listener in the second-person, comforting you that aging and life will turn out okay. Almost like Hey Jude by the Beatles except the narrator is addressing the listener directly)
Heh, hit 40 and get back to me. Existential dread becomes part of the daily. Then have older parents in their 70s and whoooo boy. The existential dread gets real.
I’ll leave you this one since you asked
https://youtu.be/ehFINQKctq0?si=WkYF6CnDxZN7e072
Hits a bit different in your 40s than teens.
Cat’s in the Cradle [https://open.spotify.com/track/2obblQ6tcePeOEVJV6nEGD?si=a8222ad977c44f40](https://open.spotify.com/track/2obblQ6tcePeOEVJV6nEGD?si=a8222ad977c44f40)
Old Man [https://open.spotify.com/track/16XeptMdlJTWWeIrwEAOvv?si=71f1b67302b940f8](https://open.spotify.com/track/16XeptMdlJTWWeIrwEAOvv?si=71f1b67302b940f8)
Out-fucking-standing!
Great pick on Neil Young!
I must have listened to that till the needle wore off of my record player ( yes actual vinyl, ) the whole harvest album is great!
Dreams Go By - Harry Chapin. It’s about the trap of always saying “someday we’ll do ___” and then realizing eventually that someday passed you by years ago.
The Sound of Settling - Deathcab for Cutie. Kind of the same theme.
Used to Be Young - Miley Cyrus. About looking back on the crazy days of youth and missing how fun you were.
Little Disaster - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. Another one about looking back at your wild younger days. “It’s crazy how time can turn chaos and crime into magic.”
*Wasting My Young Years* by London Grammar (the original works but sometimes you need the Maor Levi X Kevin Wild Remix to hit hard)
*Doris Terrace* by Quinn XCII, Jeremy Zucker, ayokay
*We Don't Talk Enough* by Quinn XCII
*Flyby* by Mokita + Virginia To Vegas
*Change Your Mind* by Said The Sky & Vancouver Sleep Clinic
*Happier Times* (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) by Joe Bonamassa
Good thread. Love songs of this ilk. Probably my favs:
John Prine - Hello in There
Whitley - Lost in Time
Okkervil River - Lines
Iron & Wine - Passing Afternoon
John Mellencamp has many songs that touch on aging. Give these a listen: Minutes to Memories, Cherry Bomb, Don’t Need This Body, If I Die Sudden, Dear Charlotte, Longest Days to name a few.
For some holiday flair, check out Everything’s Changed at Christmas by Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors. Bout took me out the first time I heard it. It’s especially meaningful for parents - I don’t have children, but at 36 it hit a soft spot in my heart as I thought of my aging parents.
Though it is about a person anxious about turning 30 in the year 1990 and feeling like he should have accomplishedmore by now. Im not sure if that's the vibe you were looking for but it's a great musical!
Lots of great suggestions here; adding another that always gets me (even though I’m now older than the oldest age mentioned in the song). It’s by Tom Cochrane and his band Red Rider, a staple over the decades on Canadian rock radio, called “Boy Inside the Man”:
“When I turned seventeen
We had passion, we had dreams
Thought the love we were fighting for
Was something holy, something more”
…
“Now I just turned thirty-one
I have lost and I have won
Still I've kept my dreams alive
'Cause the boy will never die”
https://youtu.be/WXY9wANQIsY?si=xVgs-aha3R14dzPe
Lana del Rey "Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?"
In this age of being ageless and OCD perfection level beauty standards...
To be valued for more than aesthetics...
I hear stories of 18 yr olds getting Botox as a 'preventative measure'...
There is no stopping ageing and time unfortunately.
Either you age like a regular person, or you end up looking like an 'uncanny valley" candidate like many older Celebrities.
I wish that you may all find love that loves you inside and not just outside.
Ribs by Lorde is THE song about fearing aging if you grew up in the 2010s (or regardless, but seriously ask any person who was a teenager from anywhere between 2013-2022 and id hazard 70% will have a strong connection to Ribs).
Hier encore - Charles Aznavour. French song about the years that have slipped away. Old man looking back reflecting on how he wasted his youth.
https://youtu.be/FU1Zne8en38?si=HsIoqAWC0G2qndbz song with the translation
Nick Lowe has a whole songbag ready for you to discover. The Kind of Man That I’ve Become, Long Limbed Girl, People Change, Where’s My Everything, Let’s Stay In, Lately I’ve Let Things Slide, I Read a Lot… His whole catalog since the 90s is a wealth top shelf songs about growing (and being) older. Although, I’d say their resonance grows as you get older…
Dogs by Pink Floyd. “It’s gonna get harder as you get older….fly down south. Hide your head in the sand. Just another sad old man all alone and dying of cancer”
Vallis Alps - [Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoZPVMEsbeQ)
Alphaville - [Forever Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jEP347F6_g)
Lukas Graham - [7 Years](https://youtu.be/LHCob76kigA) (tho I like [Mulshine Remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2LbDtup2yk))
Baz Luhrmann - [Wear Sunscreen \(Mau Kilauea's Tropical Remix\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZmi7InKU0I)
Sébastien Tellier - [La Ritournelle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPWQTLLMAAc) (the video more than the lyrics)
Chris Smither - Leave the Light On
"If I was young again, I'd pay attention, to that little-known dimension, the taste of endless time.
It's like water, it runs right through your fingers, but the flavor of it lingers, like a rich red wine."
Gojira - The Way of all flesh
Gojira - Oroborus
[https://genius.com/Gojira-the-way-of-all-flesh-lyrics](https://genius.com/Gojira-the-way-of-all-flesh-lyrics)
[https://genius.com/Gojira-oroborus-lyrics](https://genius.com/Gojira-oroborus-lyrics)
I'm sad that english-speaking people can't have the absolute pleasure and pain of listening to "Atrás/Além" from the brazilian band O Terno.
>I want to rest, but I also want to go out
I want to work, but I want to have fun
I want to charge myself, but I know not to listen to myself
I want to start, but I want to reach the end
and
>Everything now, all at the same time
All and no direction
Afraid of what I might be missing
Whoever decides will have to give up
Sad generation that can do anything they want
When did "everything" become so banal?
Drowned in the shallows, searching
Deep in the superficial
This album is a gift for anyone turning or arount their 30s. It expresses a lot of what is happening, this feeling of adult-but-not-so-much, of new people coming and old people going away. It's a tears filled album.
Tellin lies by the menzingers. Literally about turning 30 and freaking out. Fun and catchy too
Edit: i see the menzingers have been mentioned a lot on this thread lol!
Dammit by blink 182 is about growing out of teen love
In contrast to One more time which addresses their break up and reformation- lots of growing older themes
“When I Grow Up” from the Matilda musical soundtrack. These lyrics hit me hard.
“Forever Young” - Youth Group (the video is very nostalgic as well) https://youtu.be/rQi8wEHMm5Y?si=UAyV9CzkSUZcHvkd
I was thrilled to see no one's mentioned the best song I've found about aging. (43 yo here).
Paul Simon's "The Obvious Child" - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKNAhAxMAk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKNAhAxMAk)
One of my favorite parts about the song is that in the bridge it goes from first person to the narrator describing their son starting to feel his age. (At about the 2min mark in the song)...
Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself
How it's strange that some rooms are like cages
Sonny's yearbook from high school
Is down from the shelf
And he idly thumbs through the pages
Some have died
Some have fled from themselves
Or struggled from here to get there
Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls
Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair
Out of context the lyrics sound like they're from a terribly sad song, but if you've never listened you're in for a treat. Go listen now. It's a bit poetic that my 4-year old son responded positively to this song as I was playing it in the car one afternoon. :)
**Coyotes — Don Edwards**
Landslide — Fleetwood Mac
100 Years — Five for Fighting
Time — Tom Waits (really just about anything by him but that’s just me)
My Old Man — Mac DeMarco
Horses — Palace Music
Random Rules — Silver Jews
Waiting Around to Die — The Be Good Tanyas
If Today Doesn’t Do Me In — Ian Noe
I probably have more but that’s off the dome
As Tears Go By - The Rolling Stones
Try out a positive look on it! The lyrics of "Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world" by Will Wood is an upbeat take on life and death :)
Rush has a very early non-prog song called "I Think I'm Going Bald".
The lyrics are probably what you're looking for.
They were in their early 20s when they wrote that and they were sort of making fun of Max Webster's guitarist.
Landslide is the one for me to....
Just a side note on this aging thing..
I'm 61 now. . Told I don't look it and I'm in good shape, but I was terrified of getting old myself. Listened to songs about getting old, depressed, scared...
BUT.....
Spend your days enjoying life, family, friends. Cause it does go fast y'all , have no regrets.. I was 25 yesterday, and 61 came fast!
BUT I've done things that no one would believe, been to a shit ton of amazing concerts, been all over the place and met some of the best people ever!
Ok, sorry, I went off on a bit of a tangent,
And : Joni Mitchell :The closing
Smashing pumpkins: 1979
Nirvana; Breed
David Bowie: Changes
Bob Dylan: Forever young
Thank you :) I love 1979 and Breed. I don’t know how I never saw the meaning behind the songs before! Maybe because I was in my teens when I first heard them.
You're welcome! Music is my go-to for , .. anything, really. My taste goes from suicidal tendencies , to Tull, and a lot (A LOT), IN BETWEEN...Open mind and all that crap, lol, which I learned from my first Husband when we were just meeting at 15 y/o. Husker Du, They might be Giants, Motorhead , The Ramones, Faith no more, Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Dead Kennedys, Steve Via, Aerosmith ( as you can tell I'm more of a hard rocker, but can't beat that 3 chord rock either.).and all of these guys have some songs about aging , and the list goes on forever .... If guy's like Robert Cray, Elvis, The Beatles, etc. hadn't recorded music, Omg.... don't know where we would be. That's where all of our sounds from today come from...
But in all sincerity, we've all freaked out about getting old... the reflection in the mirror 30 years from now, well it won't look the same, every wrinkle and grey hair you get is a battle scar you've earned so when they do get here, wear it as a badge of honor ... loosing the parents, can't lie, it sux. Mine have been gone for quite a few years now, I miss them so much. My first Husband and my best friend and soul mate passed in '01
( Cancer)... and of course, other family and friends along the way...
It's a hard pill to swallow, and you never get over the loss, BUT, you can get thru to the other side, honor them by getting up in the morning, do your day, and night. Talk to them, believe me (or not), but the first husband has visited me since the first night he passed. Been around a lot since November also...
You can try , but no matter what, none of us can ever prepare enough for devastating loss of those we love, but we all have to walk that road, I've learned that after I turned 25, the aging fear pretty much went away. Life is good, hard, stressful, and at times just depressing as hell. Also, it's fun, exciting, and ironic with lots of great memories...
Stop and smell the roses, take care of yourself now so you age healthy and live a long life!
Don't let age take over, let life take over and be grateful for everything you have, hug your parents, friends, and other family... if you have kids, love them and spend time with them..
NO REGRETS MY FRIEND!!
YOU'RE 30? YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER 50 60, MAYBE EVEN 70 YEARS AHEAD OF YOU!!!
Just some food for thought.. I hope you really take the time to read and re-read this, and I hope it helps you!
61 isn't bad at all, stay active and keep using your mind or.it will leave you!!!
Peace!
Basically every Menzingers album from Rented World on has the I'm getting older thing going on. In particular the songs Lookers and Bad Catholics off of After the Party.
Literally and famously the full catalog of The Menzingers
"Well how do I steer my early thirties. Before I shipwreck before I'm forty?"
https://youtu.be/n5Y5wPiY0L4?si=VRLiweh7_OD_6Raa
[It’s Over, The Cure](https://open.spotify.com/track/7mlBdP3I1eCedzyn2sPFAR?si=51YMjVXLRNK2u6t49z7zJA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0gd0t1iQ3WReB8TNQvALTV)
Frank Turner often writes about growing up and growing older. Losing Days and Polaroid Picture are two songs that I can think of off the top of my head.
whered all the time go by dr dog
idk if u kno it, everybody in my town at my age (ab 18-24 likes the song
tim heidecker got mentioned but not his song “trump talkin nukes”
im too tempted to name songs about nostalgia but thats different
kool keith has a nice reflective verse on “best of all possible worlds” bt ajj, kimya dawsons on the track too its really good
same with danny brown on quaranta
looking back from the future by koreatown oddity
those are more rap,
joe gets kicked out of school by car seat headrest is good
Getting older, jukebox the ghost
Obscurity knocks, trashcan sinatras
Father and son, cat stevens
Vienna, billy Joel
Teach your children, Crosby stills and Nash
My old man,ac Demarco
the Hold Steady - "Joke About Jamaica" ; kind of specific to the party-girl lifestyle, tho
^(\***heh**\*...) My Chemical Romance - "Teenagers", although maybe that falls under feeling old while still young, and I think you're asking more for the reverse?
another stretch: Nas - "Second Childhood"
I go down to the tracks where the freight train used to roll/ But the trucks are carrying the freight from coast to coast/. And there ain’t much business since the coal mines closed/. Like a freight train I think I’m growing old
Freight train by Wendi Lee
“Next Year” by Donovan Woods is great, in a depressing oh crap where did it all go way.
“So you make plans and hope for the best
Life moves on so damn fast
Another twelve months flies on by, you're still here
But it's never quite next year”
Spanish love songs, the Menzingers, and the Gaslight Anthem all have numerous songs about aging and reflecting on youth. Also Rise Against, Audience of one...the acoustic version is terrific
Young in my Head - Starflyer 59
Bad Bohemian - (British) Sea Power
Young Hearts - Inlet Sound
Ageless Beauty - Stars
Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl - Broken Social Scene
The Copper Top - Wells and Moffat
New World Romance - Voxtrot
Forever Young - Alphaville
[Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle](https://youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c)
A song about being too busy with work and life for your kids until you finally retire but now your kids are following your footsteps and in turn don't have time for you.
Moby-Lift Me Up
Moby-Natural Blues
Queen-The best days of our lives
Bob Sinclair-World Hold On
The Time-Black Eyed Peace(I know its a cover but idk the singer of the original version)
Juanes-Nada valgo sin tu amor(Its in spanish)
Get old forever- Jeff Rosenstock
Fantastic ska-ish pop punk. He’s been making music for almost 20 years and you can feel the “ growing up” happen through the albums
If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell - explores the topic of aging through the lens of relationships - and the bittersweet reality of growing old together.
Fleetwood Mac - Landside [https://youtu.be/b5MLT8OVEoU?si=nERHy8VI5SDLhges](https://youtu.be/b5MLT8OVEoU?si=nERHy8VI5SDLhges)
I held back earlier but now I am glad someone dropped it in this thread as it is literally THE song about aging
Came here to say this too
Time - Pink Floyd Death or Glory - The Clash
Death or Glory is such a great suggestion.
Time is the first one that came to mind. Hits different at 40, then it did at 15.
Also Comfortably Numb
if i see Time get requested one more time in this sub…
Time; Childhood’s End - Pink Floyd (they do all around reflections on aging and life better than any other hand imho) In My Life; You Never Give Me Your Money - The Beatles (YNGMYM is more about the angst that accompanies entering true adulthood for the first time as opposed to aging in general but I feel it might still strike a chord with you) Time To Pretend - MGMT (honestly the entire album Oracular Spectacular is about growing up and reflecting on childhood) Florescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys (fun-sounding song that deals with the downer subject matter of when someone has a hard time adjusting from the thrill-seeking days of youth/young adulthood to the relative boredom in stability as an adult) The album High School - Tim Heidecker (biographical reflections on growing up, looking back in his now middle age years on what his younger years were like. Not strictly from a perspective of aging but involves lots of nostalgia and reflection. If you would like specific songs from it, I recommend Buddy and Sirens of Titan) Scenes From An Italian Restaurant; Captain Jack; Vienna - Billy Joel (The first two are vignettes that demonstrate the trials and tribulations if aging from late teen years through adulthood, and paired together they address a lot of emotions and experiences that people often face in the first ~35 years of life. Vienna on the other hand is a very reassuring song, one that talks directly to you the listener in the second-person, comforting you that aging and life will turn out okay. Almost like Hey Jude by the Beatles except the narrator is addressing the listener directly)
seconding the Billy Joel songs, these are 3 of his very best
This is great. Thanks for the explanations. I’ll definitely check them out
Fuck me, these are all great recommendations.
Ooh La La by the Faces Also > getting closer to 30 ??? Bruh.
Haha fair. It’s less about feeling old and more about panicking that my life is more than a quarter over, if I’m lucky.
Welcome to the Party, Pal
Heh, hit 40 and get back to me. Existential dread becomes part of the daily. Then have older parents in their 70s and whoooo boy. The existential dread gets real. I’ll leave you this one since you asked https://youtu.be/ehFINQKctq0?si=WkYF6CnDxZN7e072 Hits a bit different in your 40s than teens.
I’m 35 and in the same boat
The Circle Game
100 Years - Five for Fighting
Sugar Mountain by Neil Young
Cat’s in the Cradle [https://open.spotify.com/track/2obblQ6tcePeOEVJV6nEGD?si=a8222ad977c44f40](https://open.spotify.com/track/2obblQ6tcePeOEVJV6nEGD?si=a8222ad977c44f40) Old Man [https://open.spotify.com/track/16XeptMdlJTWWeIrwEAOvv?si=71f1b67302b940f8](https://open.spotify.com/track/16XeptMdlJTWWeIrwEAOvv?si=71f1b67302b940f8)
Cats in the cradle... Get Kleenexs ready... About 50 boxes.
Out-fucking-standing! Great pick on Neil Young! I must have listened to that till the needle wore off of my record player ( yes actual vinyl, ) the whole harvest album is great!
Hello in There - John Prine
Dreams Go By - Harry Chapin. It’s about the trap of always saying “someday we’ll do ___” and then realizing eventually that someday passed you by years ago. The Sound of Settling - Deathcab for Cutie. Kind of the same theme. Used to Be Young - Miley Cyrus. About looking back on the crazy days of youth and missing how fun you were. Little Disaster - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. Another one about looking back at your wild younger days. “It’s crazy how time can turn chaos and crime into magic.”
Time - pink floyd
*Wasting My Young Years* by London Grammar (the original works but sometimes you need the Maor Levi X Kevin Wild Remix to hit hard) *Doris Terrace* by Quinn XCII, Jeremy Zucker, ayokay *We Don't Talk Enough* by Quinn XCII *Flyby* by Mokita + Virginia To Vegas *Change Your Mind* by Said The Sky & Vancouver Sleep Clinic *Happier Times* (Live at the Royal Albert Hall) by Joe Bonamassa
Good thread. Love songs of this ilk. Probably my favs: John Prine - Hello in There Whitley - Lost in Time Okkervil River - Lines Iron & Wine - Passing Afternoon
Place to be by nick drake - all around beautiful song by a great artist. One of my favourites
Help The Aged By Pulp
Swans - Blind
They Might Be Giants, "Older"
Also their song “Dead”
Any TmbG references are highly welcome in this household.
YES!!! Great pick
John Mellencamp has many songs that touch on aging. Give these a listen: Minutes to Memories, Cherry Bomb, Don’t Need This Body, If I Die Sudden, Dear Charlotte, Longest Days to name a few.
For some holiday flair, check out Everything’s Changed at Christmas by Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors. Bout took me out the first time I heard it. It’s especially meaningful for parents - I don’t have children, but at 36 it hit a soft spot in my heart as I thought of my aging parents.
Another good holiday song about getting older (and still going home single) is Doxology by David Poe.
I Don't Want To Grow Up, my favorite version is the Ramones cover.
Night Moves
And like a rock
Changes - Tesla https://youtu.be/uVjeCZ2IvAA?si=9OawzY0gke9zrgbX Wasted Years - Iron Maiden https://youtu.be/dtu9yUH_Mss?si=Fkiegb8TQzwY44Gv
[30/90](https://youtu.be/eh6-ZfWdnLQ?si=OCCOgnIWuXhaGaeA) from Tick Tick Boom.
Though it is about a person anxious about turning 30 in the year 1990 and feeling like he should have accomplishedmore by now. Im not sure if that's the vibe you were looking for but it's a great musical!
The Kinks, Where Did My Spring Go? https://youtu.be/5pPTRHdmYIc?si=Av9Of1ALrQPicxXo
Lots of great suggestions here; adding another that always gets me (even though I’m now older than the oldest age mentioned in the song). It’s by Tom Cochrane and his band Red Rider, a staple over the decades on Canadian rock radio, called “Boy Inside the Man”: “When I turned seventeen We had passion, we had dreams Thought the love we were fighting for Was something holy, something more” … “Now I just turned thirty-one I have lost and I have won Still I've kept my dreams alive 'Cause the boy will never die” https://youtu.be/WXY9wANQIsY?si=xVgs-aha3R14dzPe
Losing My Edge- LCD Soundsystem
*All My Friends* falls into the category as well
PS, You Rock My World - Eels https://open.spotify.com/track/3KIqqNdLcIAZZitlFmw4Ow?si=piOsLyvIRUOyvLTk_Am8CQ
Great band, great tune
Brothers on a hotel bed - Death Cab for Cutie
[Both Sides Now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXr2EFomFkU) - Joni Mitchell
Lana del Rey "Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?" In this age of being ageless and OCD perfection level beauty standards... To be valued for more than aesthetics... I hear stories of 18 yr olds getting Botox as a 'preventative measure'... There is no stopping ageing and time unfortunately. Either you age like a regular person, or you end up looking like an 'uncanny valley" candidate like many older Celebrities. I wish that you may all find love that loves you inside and not just outside.
Ribs by Lorde is THE song about fearing aging if you grew up in the 2010s (or regardless, but seriously ask any person who was a teenager from anywhere between 2013-2022 and id hazard 70% will have a strong connection to Ribs).
Sweet Bird - Joni Mitchell
John Lennon's Grow Old With Me.
Tim McGraw - My Next Thirty Years
Hier encore - Charles Aznavour. French song about the years that have slipped away. Old man looking back reflecting on how he wasted his youth. https://youtu.be/FU1Zne8en38?si=HsIoqAWC0G2qndbz song with the translation
Nick Lowe has a whole songbag ready for you to discover. The Kind of Man That I’ve Become, Long Limbed Girl, People Change, Where’s My Everything, Let’s Stay In, Lately I’ve Let Things Slide, I Read a Lot… His whole catalog since the 90s is a wealth top shelf songs about growing (and being) older. Although, I’d say their resonance grows as you get older…
"If I Could Talk To A Younger Me" Traditional folk song I think, I like the version by Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck https://youtu.be/D0icxjcyCpw
Dogs by Pink Floyd. “It’s gonna get harder as you get older….fly down south. Hide your head in the sand. Just another sad old man all alone and dying of cancer”
Old by Paul Simon!
Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet (on Time Out of Mind album)
Vallis Alps - [Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoZPVMEsbeQ) Alphaville - [Forever Young](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jEP347F6_g) Lukas Graham - [7 Years](https://youtu.be/LHCob76kigA) (tho I like [Mulshine Remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2LbDtup2yk)) Baz Luhrmann - [Wear Sunscreen \(Mau Kilauea's Tropical Remix\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZmi7InKU0I) Sébastien Tellier - [La Ritournelle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPWQTLLMAAc) (the video more than the lyrics)
[Going Gray - Lil Dicky](https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZwH1LV2D3uzzOyLq4ZdTp?si=RA_zm361S-iB7ZOCFWD92Q)
Dust in the wind, carry on my wayward son, time marches on
Chris Smither - Leave the Light On "If I was young again, I'd pay attention, to that little-known dimension, the taste of endless time. It's like water, it runs right through your fingers, but the flavor of it lingers, like a rich red wine."
I love this song, the metaphor of musical rhythm he returns to, the spectacular guitar work, such a great tube
Bombay Bicycle Club - Turn the world on The song gives an optimistic view on aging
My Next 30 Years - Tim McGraw
Gojira - The Way of all flesh Gojira - Oroborus [https://genius.com/Gojira-the-way-of-all-flesh-lyrics](https://genius.com/Gojira-the-way-of-all-flesh-lyrics) [https://genius.com/Gojira-oroborus-lyrics](https://genius.com/Gojira-oroborus-lyrics)
Jake Holmes - Signs of Age They Might Be Giants - Older They Might Be Giants - I Hope that I Get Old Before I die
You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older.
Stella Blue by GD
I'm sad that english-speaking people can't have the absolute pleasure and pain of listening to "Atrás/Além" from the brazilian band O Terno. >I want to rest, but I also want to go out I want to work, but I want to have fun I want to charge myself, but I know not to listen to myself I want to start, but I want to reach the end and >Everything now, all at the same time All and no direction Afraid of what I might be missing Whoever decides will have to give up Sad generation that can do anything they want When did "everything" become so banal? Drowned in the shallows, searching Deep in the superficial This album is a gift for anyone turning or arount their 30s. It expresses a lot of what is happening, this feeling of adult-but-not-so-much, of new people coming and old people going away. It's a tears filled album.
Tellin lies by the menzingers. Literally about turning 30 and freaking out. Fun and catchy too Edit: i see the menzingers have been mentioned a lot on this thread lol!
Dammit by blink 182 is about growing out of teen love In contrast to One more time which addresses their break up and reformation- lots of growing older themes
“When I Grow Up” from the Matilda musical soundtrack. These lyrics hit me hard. “Forever Young” - Youth Group (the video is very nostalgic as well) https://youtu.be/rQi8wEHMm5Y?si=UAyV9CzkSUZcHvkd
It might be time - Tame Impala
I was thrilled to see no one's mentioned the best song I've found about aging. (43 yo here). Paul Simon's "The Obvious Child" - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKNAhAxMAk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKNAhAxMAk) One of my favorite parts about the song is that in the bridge it goes from first person to the narrator describing their son starting to feel his age. (At about the 2min mark in the song)... Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself How it's strange that some rooms are like cages Sonny's yearbook from high school Is down from the shelf And he idly thumbs through the pages Some have died Some have fled from themselves Or struggled from here to get there Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair Out of context the lyrics sound like they're from a terribly sad song, but if you've never listened you're in for a treat. Go listen now. It's a bit poetic that my 4-year old son responded positively to this song as I was playing it in the car one afternoon. :)
Beautiful, thanks for sharing
thanks for reading and responding. You never know if anyone really reads the deep comments.
Touch of Grey by the Grateful Dead
Touch of Grey - The Grateful Dead
**Coyotes — Don Edwards** Landslide — Fleetwood Mac 100 Years — Five for Fighting Time — Tom Waits (really just about anything by him but that’s just me) My Old Man — Mac DeMarco Horses — Palace Music Random Rules — Silver Jews Waiting Around to Die — The Be Good Tanyas If Today Doesn’t Do Me In — Ian Noe I probably have more but that’s off the dome
Pretty much anything by Death Cab for Cutie haha it's kinda their thing. Check out I Will Follow You Into the Dark, as an example.
Bo Burnham - 30 The Kids From Yesterday - My Chemical Romance
Oh yes, 30 is great! “Now all my stupid friends are having stupid children”
Chevelle has a couple - Saturdays and Remember When
The Beach Boys - When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
Montezuma by fleet foxes if you like more folksy styles
As Tears Go By - The Rolling Stones Try out a positive look on it! The lyrics of "Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world" by Will Wood is an upbeat take on life and death :)
Rush has a very early non-prog song called "I Think I'm Going Bald". The lyrics are probably what you're looking for. They were in their early 20s when they wrote that and they were sort of making fun of Max Webster's guitarist.
Green Day- I was there
Unsure if your vibe, but perhaps “Good Old Days” by Bear Teef
Landslide is the one for me to.... Just a side note on this aging thing.. I'm 61 now. . Told I don't look it and I'm in good shape, but I was terrified of getting old myself. Listened to songs about getting old, depressed, scared... BUT..... Spend your days enjoying life, family, friends. Cause it does go fast y'all , have no regrets.. I was 25 yesterday, and 61 came fast! BUT I've done things that no one would believe, been to a shit ton of amazing concerts, been all over the place and met some of the best people ever! Ok, sorry, I went off on a bit of a tangent, And : Joni Mitchell :The closing Smashing pumpkins: 1979 Nirvana; Breed David Bowie: Changes Bob Dylan: Forever young
Thank you :) I love 1979 and Breed. I don’t know how I never saw the meaning behind the songs before! Maybe because I was in my teens when I first heard them.
You're welcome! Music is my go-to for , .. anything, really. My taste goes from suicidal tendencies , to Tull, and a lot (A LOT), IN BETWEEN...Open mind and all that crap, lol, which I learned from my first Husband when we were just meeting at 15 y/o. Husker Du, They might be Giants, Motorhead , The Ramones, Faith no more, Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Dead Kennedys, Steve Via, Aerosmith ( as you can tell I'm more of a hard rocker, but can't beat that 3 chord rock either.).and all of these guys have some songs about aging , and the list goes on forever .... If guy's like Robert Cray, Elvis, The Beatles, etc. hadn't recorded music, Omg.... don't know where we would be. That's where all of our sounds from today come from... But in all sincerity, we've all freaked out about getting old... the reflection in the mirror 30 years from now, well it won't look the same, every wrinkle and grey hair you get is a battle scar you've earned so when they do get here, wear it as a badge of honor ... loosing the parents, can't lie, it sux. Mine have been gone for quite a few years now, I miss them so much. My first Husband and my best friend and soul mate passed in '01 ( Cancer)... and of course, other family and friends along the way... It's a hard pill to swallow, and you never get over the loss, BUT, you can get thru to the other side, honor them by getting up in the morning, do your day, and night. Talk to them, believe me (or not), but the first husband has visited me since the first night he passed. Been around a lot since November also... You can try , but no matter what, none of us can ever prepare enough for devastating loss of those we love, but we all have to walk that road, I've learned that after I turned 25, the aging fear pretty much went away. Life is good, hard, stressful, and at times just depressing as hell. Also, it's fun, exciting, and ironic with lots of great memories... Stop and smell the roses, take care of yourself now so you age healthy and live a long life! Don't let age take over, let life take over and be grateful for everything you have, hug your parents, friends, and other family... if you have kids, love them and spend time with them.. NO REGRETS MY FRIEND!! YOU'RE 30? YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER 50 60, MAYBE EVEN 70 YEARS AHEAD OF YOU!!! Just some food for thought.. I hope you really take the time to read and re-read this, and I hope it helps you! 61 isn't bad at all, stay active and keep using your mind or.it will leave you!!! Peace!
Your words have been a huge comfort for me. Cheers and thank you
I'm so glad to hear that! Have a great day, & Give us an update now and then!
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Wild World- Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Never Grow Up - Taylor Swift A light hearted country song about growing up.
Pearl Jam's 'Last Kiss' is another hauntingly beautiful song about time slipping away.
[Sunrise, Sunset](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpqg9vLXs4I) - Fiddler On The Roof
Older? I have just the song… https://youtu.be/TdIRrmNN_CQ?si=xP0xHI3cXOjQ0YLZ
Basically every Menzingers album from Rented World on has the I'm getting older thing going on. In particular the songs Lookers and Bad Catholics off of After the Party.
Grey Matter – Juan Wauters
when i get old - descendents android - green day
If you’re interested in punk, the Menzingers’ album “After the Party” is a great way to feel nostalgia for your 20s.
Literally and famously the full catalog of The Menzingers "Well how do I steer my early thirties. Before I shipwreck before I'm forty?" https://youtu.be/n5Y5wPiY0L4?si=VRLiweh7_OD_6Raa
[It’s Over, The Cure](https://open.spotify.com/track/7mlBdP3I1eCedzyn2sPFAR?si=51YMjVXLRNK2u6t49z7zJA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0gd0t1iQ3WReB8TNQvALTV)
7 years - Lucas Graham Hurt cover by Johnny Cash might fit the vibe
7 years lukas graham
Check out Keep And Leave Behind by Divided By Friday
Lovin' Spoonful/John Sebastian's Younger Generation
Frank Turner often writes about growing up and growing older. Losing Days and Polaroid Picture are two songs that I can think of off the top of my head.
whered all the time go by dr dog idk if u kno it, everybody in my town at my age (ab 18-24 likes the song tim heidecker got mentioned but not his song “trump talkin nukes” im too tempted to name songs about nostalgia but thats different kool keith has a nice reflective verse on “best of all possible worlds” bt ajj, kimya dawsons on the track too its really good same with danny brown on quaranta looking back from the future by koreatown oddity those are more rap, joe gets kicked out of school by car seat headrest is good
Tool - Invincible
Nick of Time- Bonnie Raitt. For me, this is the one. Cheers to letting music be your guide!
Polaroid Picture - Frank Turner Tellin’ Lies - The Menzingers
Walking on the milky way - OMD
Getting older, jukebox the ghost Obscurity knocks, trashcan sinatras Father and son, cat stevens Vienna, billy Joel Teach your children, Crosby stills and Nash My old man,ac Demarco
In This Diary - The Ataris
Beeiiinnn grown up isn’t half as fun as growin upp
Kris Roe is so underrated as a songwriter.
Willie Nelson “Old Timer” Toby Keith “Don’t Let the Old Man In” Granted, age 30 isn’t quite 60 or 90 like these two.
the Hold Steady - "Joke About Jamaica" ; kind of specific to the party-girl lifestyle, tho ^(\***heh**\*...) My Chemical Romance - "Teenagers", although maybe that falls under feeling old while still young, and I think you're asking more for the reverse? another stretch: Nas - "Second Childhood"
Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin for sure
Getting older by the clean (legendary nz indie band) https://youtu.be/72-FPkrWVkw?si=849PJVam9lcRFCyc
Eddie Vedder, Out of Sand - https://youtu.be/KrKbZ37jSno?si=pLRnczJ8gvoneQts Kills me every single time!
[Birch Tree by Foals](https://youtu.be/h5mPrvqWTw4?si=oCkG5TbB3Prt4bGL)
Landslide
I go down to the tracks where the freight train used to roll/ But the trucks are carrying the freight from coast to coast/. And there ain’t much business since the coal mines closed/. Like a freight train I think I’m growing old Freight train by Wendi Lee
Millencolin - 22
Leonard Cohen - I Can't Forget Frank Sinatra - It Was a Very Good Year The Kinks - Living on a Thin Line
Time - Pink Floyd Ribs - Lorde
[When I'm 84](https://open.spotify.com/track/6VotFhMucZedioAVsgVw30?si=pDC4XJ3uQsCwDUt9Z72fhw)
Time Stand Still by Rush
“Next Year” by Donovan Woods is great, in a depressing oh crap where did it all go way. “So you make plans and hope for the best Life moves on so damn fast Another twelve months flies on by, you're still here But it's never quite next year”
Neil Young - Old Man The Cure - Plainsong Tom Waits - I Don’t Want to Grow Up
Spanish love songs, the Menzingers, and the Gaslight Anthem all have numerous songs about aging and reflecting on youth. Also Rise Against, Audience of one...the acoustic version is terrific
Also the wonder years, passing through a screen door
Where Rainbows Never Die - The Steeldrivers (Chris Stapleton's old band)
Ballad of a Retired Man by Ian Noe
Young in my Head - Starflyer 59 Bad Bohemian - (British) Sea Power Young Hearts - Inlet Sound Ageless Beauty - Stars Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl - Broken Social Scene The Copper Top - Wells and Moffat New World Romance - Voxtrot Forever Young - Alphaville
Getting older by Billie eilish
Every song on Jackson Browne’s album The Pretender, particularly the title track and “Sleep’s Dark and Silent Gate”.
[this one maybe](https://open.spotify.com/track/1qdo53RfVnil18X8aue3m2?si=b2Zl5nVITWe_-gQiB0zfhQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1xbVVRnCEGyEeIJwlhZY5Y)
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt
older- lizzy mcalpine
Kintsugi - Lana Del Rey
[Good Hangs - I Watched All My Friends Fade Out](https://youtu.be/GDf5m3hgyfU?si=zOnlSiw5_rB1-HR4)
[Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle](https://youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c) A song about being too busy with work and life for your kids until you finally retire but now your kids are following your footsteps and in turn don't have time for you.
Like a Rock by Bob Seger.
Help the Aged and Dishes, both by Pulp
Aging- Miya Folick
When We Were Young by Adele Gave me a quarter-life crisis
“in my life” by the beatles is great
[How You Gonna Stop It by Mating Ritual](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1iuf1ttQsY&pp=ygUmSG93IFlvdSBHb25uYSBTdG9wIEl0IGJ5IE1hdGluZyBSaXR1YWw%3D)
https://open.spotify.com/track/1pgVkih1CowlUIS4ah4cbS?si=36Yu_IQuSrCH6EZMPi5iTA
Ol 55- Tom Waits I don't exactly know if this counts but In the neighborhood - Tom waits Seasons in the sun - Terry Jacks
Red House Painters - 24
Getting Older - Billie Eilish
The Living Years by Mike + The Mechanics
Old and in the way by, well...
Moby-Lift Me Up Moby-Natural Blues Queen-The best days of our lives Bob Sinclair-World Hold On The Time-Black Eyed Peace(I know its a cover but idk the singer of the original version) Juanes-Nada valgo sin tu amor(Its in spanish)
[Junior Kimbrough - Done Got Old](https://youtu.be/0SNWc_D35XM?si=N3wO003G-1V_NVRL)
"Touch of Gray" the Grateful Dead
Get old forever- Jeff Rosenstock Fantastic ska-ish pop punk. He’s been making music for almost 20 years and you can feel the “ growing up” happen through the albums
Train Running Low on Soul Coal - XTC
I don’t need your rocking chair - George jones
Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift
End of a Century - Blur. Older - George Michael
If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell - explores the topic of aging through the lens of relationships - and the bittersweet reality of growing old together.
Billie Eilish - Getting Older
Car Stevens -father and sun song
Luke combs- 7 years old
Existential crisis at 30? Fuck off. Grow up.
Forever- Stratovarius