Conservatism

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"
• Canajoharie - "Call me sentimental but I want to go back / And commemorate the place with a historical plaque
• Caroline, No
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - "So take me back to Constantinople / No, you can't go back to Constantinople"
• Lucky Ball & Chain
• Monsters Of Mud
• Old Pine Box
• Push Back The Hands - The entire song is about wanting to back to a previous time; "You would give up your right arm to go back to when you had a right arm"
• Shape Shifter
• (She Thinks She's) Edith Head
• She Was A Hotel Detective - "She used to be quite a lady"
• Sold My Mind To The Kremlin - "And country music with all those lists / Of things from yesterday you can no longer get"
• The End Of The Tour
• The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - "Why'd you have to make me say 'then, then?' / I don't need reminders of when, when"
• What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round? - "And like a fool I kept on thinkin' how my time had come to go"
• What Did I Do To You? - "What ever happened to decency? / To privacy, to false-bottom suitcases?"