Age
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Songs mentioning or about age and the stages of aging.
Central theme
- 2082
- Brontosaurus
- I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
- It Was A Very Good Year
- Lucky Ball & Chain
- O, Do Not Forsake Me
- Old Pine Box
- Older
- Out Of A Tree - "Get your 8 year old out of a tree"
- Purple Toupee - A trip down memory lane from a bald adult (who misremembers every historical event he lived through.)
- Robert Lowell (The original Lowell poem the song is based on is entitled "I Am 40: Memories of West Street and Lepke")
- The Secret Life Of Six - Six acts older and Nine acts younger
- Till My Head Falls Off
- Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May?
- You Are Old, Father William
Briefly mentioned
- Ana Ng "Ana Ng and I are getting old"
- Applause Applause Applause - "Though elderly and tired", "The child inside"
- Birdhouse In Your Soul (Demo) - "I don't feel thirty!" and "I don't feel three hundred!"
- The Bloodboat - "A voyage these young sailors will always remember"
- Cabbagetown - "I talked to my old granddad as he fell into the sea"
- Climbing The Walls - "I was wasting my youth / And using up my teeth"
- D & W - "D's getting on in years so he moves a little bit slower now"
- Dan Vs. Cog - "And you're getting old" (to those who prefer humans' touch to the machines)
- Dead - "I didn't apologize for when I was eight and I made my younger brother have to be my personal slave"
- Haunted Floating Eye - "I was born in a crypt a hundred years ago"
- Hovering Sombrero - "And it makes the pages of the calendar go flying out the window, one by one / Till 100 years are on the front lawn"
- I Left My Body - "...with the old landlady"
- I Like Fun - "My excellence at parkour might be unexpected at the age of 58"
- I Palindrome I - "See the spring of the grandfather clock unwinding / See the hands of my offspring making windmills: Dad palindrome Dad"
- I Palindrome I (Dial-A-Song) - "Man, when I was a young man--not like I'm driving a rocking chair now, but man--when I was a young man, I was free"
- Impossibly New - "The corner phone booth in its youth"
- John Lee Supertaster - "When I was 39 years old, I heard a story..."
- Lesson 16 - "Brech sigang khalabv shnit" ("you're not old enough to understand")
- The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - "I was just a child of 10, 10"
- Nevada - "When I was young, I met a man"
- New Hampshire - "Broken-hearted old man of New Hampshire"
- One Dozen Monkeys - "I'm eleven years old..."
- One More Parade - "So young, so strong", "A few years ago their guns were only toys"
- Or So I Have Read - "If you count the stripes / You can determine their age"
- Renew My Subscription - "While I'd been aging, you wrote it all down"
- Reprehensible - "The voice recites the secret history of my immortal soul;" "10,000 years of unerasable acts"
- She Thinks She's Edith Head - "We both grew up, but ..." and "The accent in her speech she didn't have growing up"
- Something You'd Like To See - "They say I'm too young to be in a show"
- Up The Junction - "And now she's two years older"
- The Vowel Family - "Ask someone older to show you, there's a vowel in each word"
- Youth Culture Killed My Dog
