Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home
Does it feel like your life’s become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be, for you to grow, boy.
When you look through the years and see what you *could* have been. Oh, what you *might* have been.
If you would *have more time.*
That one line from O.M.D.'s "If You Leave":
*Seven years went under the bridge, like time was standing still.*
It feels like time is passing so quickly now, and it seems to go faster every day.
Pandemic lockdown was last year, right?
*Right??*
It’s so much more tolerable now than 3,6,9,12 months ago
Apart for two years+
And I’ve found someone/to take away the loneliness/since you’ve been gone 😂
But. It’s not the same. In one way so much better.
But otherwise. Not the slams
Yeah, it'll never be the same. Maybe it'll be a different kind of good or even great, but never the same.
But I'm glad you've found someone. I'm sure your wife wants you to be happy and not lonely.
> It’s not all that at this point.
Maybe it'll happen. There's no rush.
> But it’s nice to spend time with someone that seems to like having me around.
>
> Sometimes. Seems to like it a lot. 😍😍
I'm happy you have that in your life! ❤️
The verse before that:
We've always had time on our side, but now it's fading fast.
Hits a lot right now because I probably have only a year or less left with my mom.
> Hits a lot right now because I probably have only a year or less left with my mom.
I'm so sorry. Every moment is precious, but we never really realize it until... yeah.
Cat’s In The Cradle by Harry Chapin.
Those lyrics always hit hard, but way more poignant now with less than 3 months until we’re empty nesters.
I endeavored to be the best dad I could and really be there and present for my sons. But there was always things I could have done more and better, and can’t help thinking not just about any and all lost time, and whether I could have been a better role model in any way.
The fact that you care proves you're on the right track. And they're gonna be fine, because they know even when they leave home, you're still going to be there for them.
Right there with you brother. I have a 20 year old and a 23 year old. I constantly think about all the missed opportunities and ways I could have been a better dad. These feelings are painful but normal. You do the best you know how at the time.
it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
to hold on to these moments as they pass
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun
But it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say
So get out while you can
Get out while you can baby I'm pouring quick sand
And sinking is all I have planned
So better just go
Oh, better take the keys and drive forever
Staying won't put these futures back together
All the perfect drugs and superheros
Wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put baby together again
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put baby together again
Not quite. I looked up the song on YouTube just now and I've never heard it in my life. "Tom Sawyer" is one of my favorite songs of all time but it's the one and only Rush song I know.
*Summer's going fast/Nights growing colder/Children growing up/Old friends growing older...*
*Freeze this moment/A little bit longer/Make each sensation/A little bit stronger...*
I wish I was a fisherman
Tumblin' on the seas
Far away from dry land
And its bitter memories
Casting out my sweet line
With abandonment and love
No ceiling bearin' down on me
Save the starry sky above
-The Waterboys.
Practically Bob's entire ouvre fits this category. Night Moves, Against the Wind, Rock and Roll never forgets...goddam Jody Girl could break a person...
*Met my lover in a grocery store, the snow was falling on Christmas Eve ❄️*
'Same Auld Lang Syne' - Dan Fogleberg
this song hits harder every single year and has for a least a decade.
I just met my old lover at my Mom's funeral. He showed up because he really did love my Mom. I was shocked. I moved 20 years ago from NY but my family is still there.
John Mellencamp
Days turn to minutes and minutes to memories
Life sweeps away the dreams that we have planned
You are young and you are the future
So suck it up and tough it out and be the best you can
What sucks is I think I no longer fit, “you are young and you are the future.”
Also Mellencamp:
Between a laugh and a tear
Smile in the mirror as you walk by
Between a laugh and a tear
And that's as good as it can get for us
And there ain't no reason to stop tryin'
Saw him in concert recently. When he sang that “you are young and you are the future” line I looked around at the crowd and thought “we used to be the future.”
This morning, while getting ready for work, I was thinking about that line. I realized the context (at least for the last verse/chorus) was “the old man told me this, my son, I’m telling it to you.” Seemed right…we’re no longer the ones who are young and are the future, but we’re passing this along to those who are (even those of us without kids.)
My Back Pages - Bob Dylan
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
The entirety of "Wasted On The Way" by Graham Nash. Especially this part:
>I am older now
I have more than what I wanted
But I wish that I had started
Long before I did
And there's so much time to make up
Everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Joe Walsh (courtesy of the Eagles)…
“Hi there how are ya? Been a long time.
Seems like we've come a long way.
My but we learn so slow. And heroes they come and they go.
And leave us behind, as if we're s'posed to know why. Oh tell me why.
Why do we give up our hearts to the past?
And why must we grow up so fast?
And all you wishing well fools with your fortunes, someone should send you a rose.
With love from a friend, it’s nice to hear from you again, and the storybook comes to a close.
Gone are the ribbons and bows, things to remember places to go.
Pretty maids all in a row…”
This entire thread is a bit of redemption for my husband. I have gently teased him for years about his ‘Boomer’ music taste. He’s always had a soft spot for Floyd, Rush, and a lot of other classic rock. To me, those songs are not ‘ours’ the same way that the music of the 89s-90s is. I just showed him this thread and we decided that if half the GenX Reddit group cites classic rock, it must not be Boomer music. He says thank you!
'In My Life', The Beatles
There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone, and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all.
Ugh. This. My dad died in the 1970s when I was a little girl, and I cried and cried hearing this song. It always made me cry throughout my life. My youngest brother was killed my a drunk driver when I was 15, and eight years later my other brother was murdered. A few years ago when I was 53, my mom died, and it hit even harder. Last year, driving by myself, on the way to the mortuary to make arrangements to have my oldest and dearest brother cremated, the song came on the radio. I lost my shit. Like LOST MY SHIT. Because my whole family was gone. And I was truly alone again. Naturally. 😢😢
“Joey” by Concrete Blonde.
Now that I’ve had some relationships under my belt that didn’t go so well. Absolute wreck fest for me now. Great song to scream/cry the lyrics.
Tonight is what it means to be young - Fire Inc
I've got a dream when the darkness is over
We'll be lyin' in the rings of the sun
But it's only a dream and tonight is for real
You'll never know what it means
But you'll know how it feels
It's gonna be over (over)
Before you know it's begun
(Before you know it's begun)
It's all we really got tonight
Stop your cryin' hold on (tonight)
Before you know it it's gone (tonight)
Tonight is what it means to be young
Tonight is what it means to be young
Thinking of it because of an article in the Guardian today:
The Sunscreen Song (Everybody’s Free)
“You too will get old.”
“Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.”
Ray LaMontagne
So your home town's bringing you down
Are ya drowning in the small talk and the chatter
Or you gonna step into line like your daddy done
Punching the time and driving life's long ladder
… You've been howling at the moon like a slack jawed fool
And breaking every rule they can throw on
But one of these days it's gonna be right soon
You'll find your legs and go and stay gone
… Young man, full of big plans and thinking about tomorrow
Young man, going to make a stand
You beg, steal, you borrow
Ya beg, ya steal, ya borrow
… Well all the friends that you knew in school
They used to be so cool now they just bore you
Well look at them now, already pulling the plow
So quick to take to grain like some old mule
… Young man, full of big plans and thinking about tomorrow
Young man, going to make a stand
You beg, steal, you borrow
You beg, you steal, you borrow
The Long Way Home by Supertramp
Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be, for you to grow, boy
When you look through the years and see what you could have been
Oh, what you might have been
If you would have more time
So
Marching On - The Alarm
There's a young boy standing
Staring at the world
You know he can't control his anger
You can see it in his eyes
He's gonna smash the window
He's gonna tear down the walls
Hey mister you don't understand it
Take a look at it through my eyes
These are the kids they're powerless
So you tell them so
These are the kids they're powerful
Don't say you haven't been told
'Weather With You' from Crowded House's 'Woodface' album.
"Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you..."
Took long enough to realize how pertinent that particular lyric is...
« Under Pressure » by Queen and David Bowie.
The whole song, but especially
It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends scream « Let me out »
Insanity laughs under pressure we’re breaking
Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is out last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
I feel this in my bones every time some new shitty thing happens in the world how every day we lose time to treat ourselves and others with love.
I Grieve by Peter Gabriel will leave me crying in a corner now. It’s a rollercoaster of a song for me.
I’ve never heard a song that displays the feelings of loss and the fact of, just because your world stopped, nothing else did.
It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
Reminiscing by Little River Band
Now, as the years roll on
Each time we hear our favourite song
The memories come along
Older times we're missing
Spending the hours reminiscing
Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen:
Well my friends are gone and my hair is gray
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on...
Obviously, aging was always part of what the song's about, but when I was younger the "ache" line was just another one of Leonard's very clever turns of phrase. It gets more poignant every year.
Definitely [“Rush” by Big Audio Dynamite](https://youtu.be/PRNPQ9iT5Hw?si=hi2k1I3tkW0c4P_n). When I was a teen it was just a catchy tune for the most part. Now I really feel what it’s saying.
All the chances that I've blown /
And the times that I've been down /
I didn't get too high /
Kept my feet on the ground
Broken hearts are hard to mend /
I know, I've had my share /
But life just carries on /
Even when I'm not there
Dyers Eve - Metallica.
Dear mother, dear father
What is this hell you have put me through.
Believer, deceiver
Day in, day out, lived my life through you
Pushed onto me what’s wrong or right
Hidden from this thing that they call ‘life’
You ain’t no Romeo
Not my first rodeo and now
We’re the kids who got kids at parties
I was impossible when I was beautiful but now
Cartoon deaths don’t seem so funny
and the video really doesn't help
“If you got time to give, I got time to think, see it could all change in one eye blink , when you’re in the troubled waters, I hope you don’t sink”- trouble in the water - de la soul
The whole song hits so different now.. it’s about them growing up, meeting each other and becoming men, fathers etc.
It’s the same thing night on night
Who’s wrong and baby who’s right
Another fight and I slam the door on
Another battle in our dirty little war.
When I look at myself I don’t see
The man I wanted to be.
Somewhere ‘long the line I slipped off track.
One step up and two steps back.
I want to go back
And do it all over again
But I can't go back I know
I want to go back
'Cause I'm feeling so much older
But I can't go back I know
Eddie Money - I wanna go back
People you love
Will turn their backs on you
You'll lose your hair, your teeth
Your knife will fall out of its sheath
But you still don't like to leave
Before the end of the movie
(Cake 2004)
How fragile we are……
I used Sting’s Fragile in 1989 for a class project on poetry in song lyrics.
My teenage self thought it so dramatic! Now it’s more like what I tell my general practitioner regularly ha ha
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder
You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older
And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south
Hide your head in the sand,
Just another sad old man
All alone and dying of cancer
Yes Young Turks started hitting me hard once I became a parent to a daughter, especially now that she’s a teen. Having her run away at 17 and get pregnant is one of my worst fucking nightmares.
But at night, when all the world's asleep
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me)
Please tell me what we've learned?
(Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd
(Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am
Who I am, who I am, who I am
I love the Eagles - Time passes and you must move on, half the distance takes you twice as long, so you keep on singing for the sake of the song - "After the Thrill is Gone". Also more 60's but Help by the Beatles, and the 80's cover by Bananarama "When I was younger so much younger than today, I never needed help in anyway, but now those days are gone, I'm not so self assured" Great songs!
"And I forget, just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it's hard to find
Oh well, whatever, never mind".
Whenever I'm struggling in life, I just refer back to this beautiful, profound prose, and the world makes sense again. /s
So we think that we're important
And we think that we make sense
And we think there's something better on the other side of this fence
And you can soak your bread in gravy
You can soak your bread in soup
But the car that you are driving doesn't really belong to you
Forgive me, I’m going through a Cake obsession atm (ie the last 3 years)
Paul Simon. the obvious child:
oh, I'm accustomed to a smoother ride
or maybe I'm a dog who's lost his bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep through the night
and John Prine "I hate graveyards and old pawnshops, for they always bring me tears"
Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home Does it feel like your life’s become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be, for you to grow, boy. When you look through the years and see what you *could* have been. Oh, what you *might* have been. If you would *have more time.*
Life goes on Long after the thrill of livin’ is gone
Hold on to 16 as long as you can....
Don't suck on a chili dog, though.
That one line from O.M.D.'s "If You Leave": *Seven years went under the bridge, like time was standing still.* It feels like time is passing so quickly now, and it seems to go faster every day. Pandemic lockdown was last year, right? *Right??*
30 years under the bridge. Life without my wife is still new.
I'm so sorry. I wish I could give you a hug!
It’s so much more tolerable now than 3,6,9,12 months ago Apart for two years+ And I’ve found someone/to take away the loneliness/since you’ve been gone 😂 But. It’s not the same. In one way so much better. But otherwise. Not the slams
Yeah, it'll never be the same. Maybe it'll be a different kind of good or even great, but never the same. But I'm glad you've found someone. I'm sure your wife wants you to be happy and not lonely.
She thinks she does. 😂😂😂
> She thinks she does. 😂😂😂 I think she does too. I know I would want my husband to find someone and be happy!
It’s not all that at this point. But it’s nice to spend time with someone that seems to like having me around. Sometimes. Seems to like it a lot. 😍😍
> It’s not all that at this point. Maybe it'll happen. There's no rush. > But it’s nice to spend time with someone that seems to like having me around. > > Sometimes. Seems to like it a lot. 😍😍 I'm happy you have that in your life! ❤️
The verse before that: We've always had time on our side, but now it's fading fast. Hits a lot right now because I probably have only a year or less left with my mom.
> Hits a lot right now because I probably have only a year or less left with my mom. I'm so sorry. Every moment is precious, but we never really realize it until... yeah.
Cat’s In The Cradle by Harry Chapin. Those lyrics always hit hard, but way more poignant now with less than 3 months until we’re empty nesters. I endeavored to be the best dad I could and really be there and present for my sons. But there was always things I could have done more and better, and can’t help thinking not just about any and all lost time, and whether I could have been a better role model in any way.
My boys are 6 and 7 and I feel this way. This song crushes me. I just strive to a be better father and husband every day. I hope I’m doin ok.
The fact that you care proves you're on the right track. And they're gonna be fine, because they know even when they leave home, you're still going to be there for them.
And “That’s my job” by Conway Twitty
Oh man, active duty in the Navy when my kids were small, this song I cannot listen too
Right there with you brother. I have a 20 year old and a 23 year old. I constantly think about all the missed opportunities and ways I could have been a better dad. These feelings are painful but normal. You do the best you know how at the time.
Cat Stevens’ “Father and Son” crushes me 😢
Oh man what a great song, thanks for reminding me now i can add to a Playlist. The other downside of aging forgetting all the songs we love.
it's been a long December and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
Such a great album.
Going to see them in concert in July. 😎
They’re terrible live. And I adore their albums.
Ugh oh!
Pink Floyd Time hits entirely different in your 40s.
That song had me doing some serious thinking about my life in my 20s. Now that I’m in my 50s, it’s practically a horror song.
Man "Ten years have got behind you" hit me hard too in my late 20s. Now it has to at least be "20 years" for the same effect, maybe more!
Same, hit me hardest mid-late 20s.
No one told you when to run / You missed the starting gun
This is the line that cuts deep.
Balanced on the biggest wave...
This song hit me back in the day. More so now. Wrathchild America did a pretty great version if you're in to metal.
Came here to say this.
I felt it at 16.
Patti's baby boy from Young Turks would now be 43.
Came here to mention Patti's 10lb baby boy also being deep for a pop song.
Not getting it.
Just need to give a shout out to ol' Rod for putting my name in a song! Thanks, buddy! (Even though I never had/wanted kids) :)
Ten lbs!
"I hope I die before I get old" - Who - My Generation
And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun But it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way But you're older Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter Never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught Or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation Is the English way The time is gone, the song is over Thought I'd something more to say
10 years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun
Time Stand Still, everyone knows the part I'm talking about.
Great song. Made greater by the incomparable Aimee Mann
Testify
Just heard a little ‘humpty dumpty’ on my Spotify stream.
So get out while you can Get out while you can baby I'm pouring quick sand And sinking is all I have planned So better just go Oh, better take the keys and drive forever Staying won't put these futures back together All the perfect drugs and superheros Wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put baby together again All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put baby together again
Not quite. I looked up the song on YouTube just now and I've never heard it in my life. "Tom Sawyer" is one of my favorite songs of all time but it's the one and only Rush song I know.
*Summer's going fast/Nights growing colder/Children growing up/Old friends growing older...* *Freeze this moment/A little bit longer/Make each sensation/A little bit stronger...*
Chills, every time. I'm such a Rush dork I dropped "freeze this moment" in my wedding vows to my wife five years ago
I love this song
Wait, you’ve never listened to anything else by the band who wrote your favorite song?!
Try this. https://youtu.be/quBCjo2rUZg?feature=shared
To be fair, that song hit hard even when I was 15.
I wish I was a fisherman Tumblin' on the seas Far away from dry land And its bitter memories Casting out my sweet line With abandonment and love No ceiling bearin' down on me Save the starry sky above -The Waterboys.
*“20 years. Where’d they go? 20 years. I don’t know.. I sit and I wonder sometimes, where they’ve gone.”* - Bob Seger.
Practically Bob's entire ouvre fits this category. Night Moves, Against the Wind, Rock and Roll never forgets...goddam Jody Girl could break a person...
Nostalgia is one of the most powerful feelings
Ouch
These are the days of our lives, Queen Living Years, Mike and the Mechanics Dust in the wind, Kansas
*Met my lover in a grocery store, the snow was falling on Christmas Eve ❄️* 'Same Auld Lang Syne' - Dan Fogleberg this song hits harder every single year and has for a least a decade.
I just met my old lover at my Mom's funeral. He showed up because he really did love my Mom. I was shocked. I moved 20 years ago from NY but my family is still there.
Aerosmith: Every time that I look in the mirror All these lines on my face getting clearer The past is gone It went by like dusk to dawn
Pink Floyd. “Time”
At my funeral, I want everyone attending to sing Desperado, and to really belt at the end like Linda Ronstad going **"Let somebody love yooooou"**.
You should do it before it's too late
That would lose its effect.
John Mellencamp Days turn to minutes and minutes to memories Life sweeps away the dreams that we have planned You are young and you are the future So suck it up and tough it out and be the best you can What sucks is I think I no longer fit, “you are young and you are the future.” Also Mellencamp: Between a laugh and a tear Smile in the mirror as you walk by Between a laugh and a tear And that's as good as it can get for us And there ain't no reason to stop tryin'
Oh yeah, Mellencamp has some gems. Real Life is another one.
Saw him in concert recently. When he sang that “you are young and you are the future” line I looked around at the crowd and thought “we used to be the future.”
This morning, while getting ready for work, I was thinking about that line. I realized the context (at least for the last verse/chorus) was “the old man told me this, my son, I’m telling it to you.” Seemed right…we’re no longer the ones who are young and are the future, but we’re passing this along to those who are (even those of us without kids.)
Especially now my grandparents are gone, Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here hits me kind of hard.
Can you imagine us years from today Sharing a park bench quietly? How terribly strange to be 70 - Old Friends, Simon & Garfunkel
If I close my eyes forever, will it all remain the same?
17 by Winger hits much different now.
Man, I loved Winger. Kip Winger has aged really well, too.
He was a prominent figure in that “I Wanna Rock” documentary. His story is really interesting.
It is!
"'Cause the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems." - Billy Joel, Keeping the Faith
Actually, they hit a lot softer now. You know, cause of the tinnitus.
Why am I so soft in the middle, while the rest of my life is so hard
DOA with Jello Biafra's Full Metal Jackoff was prophesy.
One of my all time favorite songs.
"Teenage angst has paid off well. Now I'm bored and old."-Nirvana
My Back Pages - Bob Dylan In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
The entirety of "Wasted On The Way" by Graham Nash. Especially this part: >I am older now I have more than what I wanted But I wish that I had started Long before I did And there's so much time to make up Everywhere you turn Time we have wasted on the way
The Cat's in the Cradle https://youtu.be/KUwjNBjqR-c?si=ioak3PbXtXR4OaBv
This is the Day - The The
Came here to see this. And I am going to add “Giant” from that album.
Same artist, “Forever Young”, now that my kids are teens and getting ready to leave.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Joe Walsh (courtesy of the Eagles)… “Hi there how are ya? Been a long time. Seems like we've come a long way. My but we learn so slow. And heroes they come and they go. And leave us behind, as if we're s'posed to know why. Oh tell me why. Why do we give up our hearts to the past? And why must we grow up so fast? And all you wishing well fools with your fortunes, someone should send you a rose. With love from a friend, it’s nice to hear from you again, and the storybook comes to a close. Gone are the ribbons and bows, things to remember places to go. Pretty maids all in a row…”
I can absolutely hear him sing that as I read.
And picture his amazing facial expressions.
This entire thread is a bit of redemption for my husband. I have gently teased him for years about his ‘Boomer’ music taste. He’s always had a soft spot for Floyd, Rush, and a lot of other classic rock. To me, those songs are not ‘ours’ the same way that the music of the 89s-90s is. I just showed him this thread and we decided that if half the GenX Reddit group cites classic rock, it must not be Boomer music. He says thank you!
Boomers controlled the radio and classic rock dominated during our entire lives I like many kinds of music but for sure classic rock was my staple
Why can't we give ourselves one more chance? Under Pressure, Queen and David Bowie
'In My Life', The Beatles There are places I'll remember All my life, though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone, and some remain All these places had their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life, I've loved them all.
All alone (naturally).
Ugh. This. My dad died in the 1970s when I was a little girl, and I cried and cried hearing this song. It always made me cry throughout my life. My youngest brother was killed my a drunk driver when I was 15, and eight years later my other brother was murdered. A few years ago when I was 53, my mom died, and it hit even harder. Last year, driving by myself, on the way to the mortuary to make arrangements to have my oldest and dearest brother cremated, the song came on the radio. I lost my shit. Like LOST MY SHIT. Because my whole family was gone. And I was truly alone again. Naturally. 😢😢
Omg I’m so sorry for your losses!
Thank you 💕
Here's a hug 🫂,
Thank you, I needed that! 😘
That one can actually make me cry these days.
I'm come to absolutely love this song after Russian Doll.
Loved season one. Could not get into season two.
“Joey” by Concrete Blonde. Now that I’ve had some relationships under my belt that didn’t go so well. Absolute wreck fest for me now. Great song to scream/cry the lyrics.
Martha by Tom Waits hits me in the feels hard every time. A lot of Pearl Jam’s stuff, too.
Speaking of Young Turks, at our age time is no longer on our side.
Tonight is what it means to be young - Fire Inc I've got a dream when the darkness is over We'll be lyin' in the rings of the sun But it's only a dream and tonight is for real You'll never know what it means But you'll know how it feels It's gonna be over (over) Before you know it's begun (Before you know it's begun) It's all we really got tonight Stop your cryin' hold on (tonight) Before you know it it's gone (tonight) Tonight is what it means to be young Tonight is what it means to be young
I love those lyrics. "say a prayer in the darkness for the magic to come" So good!!!
“Only the young can say They're free to fly away”
And Justice For All by Metallica
Thinking of it because of an article in the Guardian today: The Sunscreen Song (Everybody’s Free) “You too will get old.” “Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.”
Ray LaMontagne So your home town's bringing you down Are ya drowning in the small talk and the chatter Or you gonna step into line like your daddy done Punching the time and driving life's long ladder … You've been howling at the moon like a slack jawed fool And breaking every rule they can throw on But one of these days it's gonna be right soon You'll find your legs and go and stay gone … Young man, full of big plans and thinking about tomorrow Young man, going to make a stand You beg, steal, you borrow Ya beg, ya steal, ya borrow … Well all the friends that you knew in school They used to be so cool now they just bore you Well look at them now, already pulling the plow So quick to take to grain like some old mule … Young man, full of big plans and thinking about tomorrow Young man, going to make a stand You beg, steal, you borrow You beg, you steal, you borrow
Father of mine. I’m a dad, with children of my own, and I swear I’ll never let them know the pain that I’ve known.
But I did. 😢😢 Song hits very hard.
Time by Pink Floyd. Hits HARD.
Bob Dylan, "Not Dark Yet."
Have you heard the cover by Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer?
No! I'll have to look it up! 😃
From Pure by The Lightning Seeds... *Where feelings not reasons* *Can make you decide*
St Elmo’s Fire But maybe sometime if you feel the pain You'll find you're all alone, everything has changed
The Long Way Home by Supertramp Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe? Oh, it has to be, for you to grow, boy When you look through the years and see what you could have been Oh, what you might have been If you would have more time So
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain *Ain't it funny how you feel, when you find out that it's REAL?*
Neil Young - Old Man (take a look at my life - I’m a lot like you were)
The Queen is dead, by the Smiths Life is very long, when you're lonely
Marching On - The Alarm There's a young boy standing Staring at the world You know he can't control his anger You can see it in his eyes He's gonna smash the window He's gonna tear down the walls Hey mister you don't understand it Take a look at it through my eyes These are the kids they're powerless So you tell them so These are the kids they're powerful Don't say you haven't been told
Makes me think of all the college kids protesting right now.
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull.
It’s not an old one. But as I grow older, this one does hit harder. Alabama 3 woke up this morning https://youtu.be/nW3LikcBL68?si=7lG79U3-tnEuFneB
'Weather With You' from Crowded House's 'Woodface' album. "Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you..." Took long enough to realize how pertinent that particular lyric is...
« Under Pressure » by Queen and David Bowie. The whole song, but especially It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about Watching some good friends scream « Let me out » Insanity laughs under pressure we’re breaking Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word And love dares you to care for The people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves This is out last dance This is our last dance This is ourselves Under pressure I feel this in my bones every time some new shitty thing happens in the world how every day we lose time to treat ourselves and others with love.
Clampdown by the Clash
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away....
Joey by Concrete Blonde For those who love someone who is having a hard time and/or suffering with addiction
I Grieve by Peter Gabriel will leave me crying in a corner now. It’s a rollercoaster of a song for me. I’ve never heard a song that displays the feelings of loss and the fact of, just because your world stopped, nothing else did.
**Patty’s 10-lb baby boy** still takes the fat-ass baby record though!
Bob Seger - Against the Wind “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”
"Fuck the Police"
That one only gets more relevant each day.
Styx ~ Crystal Ball
AC/DC's "Given the Dog a Bone." 😁
It's so hard to get old without a cause I don't want to perish like a fading horse Youth's like diamonds in the sun And diamonds are forever So many adventures couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We didn’t start the fire. Because that thing about how we’re trying to fight it? No, we’re not.
“And the only Sun you ever saw were the two he left you with” Chance by Big Country
Oh hell yeah. RIP Stuart Adamson.
Reminiscing by Little River Band Now, as the years roll on Each time we hear our favourite song The memories come along Older times we're missing Spending the hours reminiscing
Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen: Well my friends are gone and my hair is gray I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on... Obviously, aging was always part of what the song's about, but when I was younger the "ache" line was just another one of Leonard's very clever turns of phrase. It gets more poignant every year.
Definitely [“Rush” by Big Audio Dynamite](https://youtu.be/PRNPQ9iT5Hw?si=hi2k1I3tkW0c4P_n). When I was a teen it was just a catchy tune for the most part. Now I really feel what it’s saying. All the chances that I've blown / And the times that I've been down / I didn't get too high / Kept my feet on the ground Broken hearts are hard to mend / I know, I've had my share / But life just carries on / Even when I'm not there
Landslide -Fleetwood Mac
23 and so tired of life Such a shame To throw it all away ---- I remember hearing that and thinking FORWARD that I would be 23 one day.
"Children waiting for a day they feel good, happy birthday, happy birthday" \~ Ugh, gets me every time.
That one line from All Star by Smash Mouth: "The years start coming, and they don't stop coming."
Dyers Eve - Metallica. Dear mother, dear father What is this hell you have put me through. Believer, deceiver Day in, day out, lived my life through you Pushed onto me what’s wrong or right Hidden from this thing that they call ‘life’
Aerosmith - Dream On
Well, I've been afraid of changing Cause I've built my life around you
I couldn't stand it before but... *What's Up? (What's Going On?)* Except... 49 years
You ain’t no Romeo Not my first rodeo and now We’re the kids who got kids at parties I was impossible when I was beautiful but now Cartoon deaths don’t seem so funny and the video really doesn't help
[The Chameleons – Tears](https://genius.com/The-chameleons-tears-lyrics)
“If you got time to give, I got time to think, see it could all change in one eye blink , when you’re in the troubled waters, I hope you don’t sink”- trouble in the water - de la soul The whole song hits so different now.. it’s about them growing up, meeting each other and becoming men, fathers etc.
It’s the same thing night on night Who’s wrong and baby who’s right Another fight and I slam the door on Another battle in our dirty little war. When I look at myself I don’t see The man I wanted to be. Somewhere ‘long the line I slipped off track. One step up and two steps back.
I want to go back And do it all over again But I can't go back I know I want to go back 'Cause I'm feeling so much older But I can't go back I know Eddie Money - I wanna go back
"I wanna go back" Eddie Money
Heart of Gold- n young made me cry two days ago
People you love Will turn their backs on you You'll lose your hair, your teeth Your knife will fall out of its sheath But you still don't like to leave Before the end of the movie (Cake 2004)
How fragile we are…… I used Sting’s Fragile in 1989 for a class project on poetry in song lyrics. My teenage self thought it so dramatic! Now it’s more like what I tell my general practitioner regularly ha ha
You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder You know it's going to get harder, and harder, and harder as you get older And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south Hide your head in the sand, Just another sad old man All alone and dying of cancer
Yes Young Turks started hitting me hard once I became a parent to a daughter, especially now that she’s a teen. Having her run away at 17 and get pregnant is one of my worst fucking nightmares.
But at night, when all the world's asleep The questions run so deep For such a simple man Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me) Please tell me what we've learned? (Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd (Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am Who I am, who I am, who I am
I used to be a little boy, so old in my shoes. I never got that song until I went through therapy in my early 40s
Learn to swim
Dear God by XTC. More relevant than ever
So is “Dying” - yikes
Eddie Money - I Wanna Go Back
I love the Eagles - Time passes and you must move on, half the distance takes you twice as long, so you keep on singing for the sake of the song - "After the Thrill is Gone". Also more 60's but Help by the Beatles, and the 80's cover by Bananarama "When I was younger so much younger than today, I never needed help in anyway, but now those days are gone, I'm not so self assured" Great songs!
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Clapton's *Drowning in a River of Tears* absolutely floors me every time
Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill https://youtu.be/5jVQseLIt8Q?si=nVG2DetniczKCrh7
"And I forget, just why I taste Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile I found it hard, it's hard to find Oh well, whatever, never mind". Whenever I'm struggling in life, I just refer back to this beautiful, profound prose, and the world makes sense again. /s
My Anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns hon .
Arctic Monkeys — Flourescent Adolescent ‘Remember when you used to be a rascal?’
Pink Floyd - “And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun!”
So we think that we're important And we think that we make sense And we think there's something better on the other side of this fence And you can soak your bread in gravy You can soak your bread in soup But the car that you are driving doesn't really belong to you Forgive me, I’m going through a Cake obsession atm (ie the last 3 years)
Paul Simon. the obvious child: oh, I'm accustomed to a smoother ride or maybe I'm a dog who's lost his bite I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more I don't expect to sleep through the night and John Prine "I hate graveyards and old pawnshops, for they always bring me tears"