Conservatism
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Songs where people are longing for the past, or unwilling to accept change.
- Bills, Bills, Bills - ' ' "At first we started out real cool/ Taking me places I ain't never been/ But now you're getting comfortable/ Ain't doing those things you did no more/ slowly making me pay for things/ Your money should be handling"
- Lucky Ball & Chain
- Monsters Of Mud - "It used to be that everyone you'd see was so well scrubbed", "Everything's different now ever since the monsters of mud"
- Push Back The Hands - The entire song is about wanting to back to a previous time, presumably when things were better, such as "You would give up your right arm to go back / To when you had a right arm"
- Shape Shifter - "Where did my world go?", "I accepted what you were and then everything changed and I don't want to live in any place where the people are shifting their shapes"
- (She Thinks She's) Edith Head
- She Was A Hotel Detective
- Sold My Mind To The Kremlin - "Fishing holes don't exist/ And country music with all those lists /Of things from yesterday you can no longer get"
- The End Of The Tour
- What Did I Do To You? - "What ever happened to decency? to privacy? to false-bottom suitcases?"
