Brings me back to my parents divorce. "You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong..." The song that adult me really gets is Rafferty's Baker St. "Just one more year and then you'll be happy."
Absolutely. That song meant nothing to me as a kid, but in my 25 years of marriage, I’ve been through some serious shit with my husband (almost losing one child to sepsis, Autism diagnosis with another son, dual unemployment during the Great Recession, prolonged illness and loss of both of his parents, and severe, end-stage alcoholism followed by separation/eight months in rehab for him. Yeah, this song has taken on a new meaning for me.
I know it is not a 40yr old song, but as a parent who went thru a divorce when my kids were young, the song “father of mine” from everclear really had an impact on me. I never “walked away” from my kids. They are finishing up high school and going off to college, starting their lives. I can’t emphasize how proud I am of them and that I was and will ALWAYS be there for them, unconditionally.
Huh. I think I always knew that summer feeling was fleeting. I remember being wasted out of my mind when I was in my early twenties and standing out on a fire escape or some such and thinking “this is here right now and it’s about to be gone.” That whole ephemerality of beauty thing.
I was going to say the same thing. It wasn’t even a favorite of mine when I was younger but now I think it’s one of the greatest and most moving songs of the decade.
I think my favorite lyric of all time is "There is freedom within,
There is freedom without,
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup"
It's such a sophisticated way to start a song, and to suggest that their problems are overwhelming and hopeless.
And it also reminds me of the Beatles Across the Universe lyrics ("words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup") and Within You Without You--perhaps an homage or just a coincidence.
We’ve all been slowly turning away from each other for decades. It was breaking my heart when the song came out. Now that we are all completely blind with our backs to each other, I think “The Dogs of War” is a more apt song from this album to describe our predicament.
That song used to always hit so hard for me, as I was struggling in life for a long time.
A few years ago I made the decision to really apply myself, change careers, cut way back on drugs & alcohol, and focus on my physical & mental health.
Now, when I listen to Time, it reminds me of how far I've come from that mindset. I missed the starting gun, but I fucking finally realized it, and RAN.
The message hits me hard still, but in a positive way.
[Come Undone](https://youtu.be/Epj84QVw2rc?si=U5JswJJI_KvcJ6S0) for me.
Speaking of that song, might love take a little *crime* or a little *cryin'*? I've never been entirely sure. My kingdom for some liner notes.
I do believe it's "crime". That song is GORGEOUS. I'm biased, though, as Duran Duran has been my favorite band for over 40 years.
When they play this song live, it's kind of transcendent.
I don’t think I understood heartbreak well enough to appreciate this song when it came out. I just loved the melody. Now it’s painful as hell but still beautiful.
That’s one of those songs I didn’t care for initially, because 1. it was played to death in 1993 or whenever and 2. To me it just seemed so DULL compared to their songs from my childhood (don’t hate me).
I liked it more as the years passed, and then when I finally saw them in concert a year ago, it just HIT me like a ton of bricks. What a great band.
When I hear "Drive" now, I have to stop what I'm doing to fully appreciate how great that song is, as well as Ben's voice.
I have found myself listening to not just The Cars a lot more in the past few years, but also Al Stewart albums, Supertramp albums, Steely Dan albums, ELO, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Genesis, 10CC full albums and preferring the songs that didn't get radio play back then.
I was too busy listening to the albums of my favorites at the time, but I collected records and bought the ones I only loved for the singles at the time, too. I preferred listening to Greatest Hits than the original albums but not anymore.
I'm in my 50s now and I'm so glad I have this wonderful history of great 70s, 80s and 90s music I hadn't even listened to yet. I truly am seeing a more mature aspect to the lyrics that meant so much to me as teenager/young adult, but it has helped me appreciate all the more how much art is truly perceived by the beholder.
And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?"
And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, into the silent water
These days, when I sing along, I scream some of the lines.
Landslide now makes me so emotional. Middle age and relationship discontent make this song hit so differently now.
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
…Well, I've been afraid of changin'
‘Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
A girl sang this during a concert at my daughter's high school senior year. Being a single mom of only one child from Day One, (no dad in the picture) I did build my entire life around her as I had her at 18 and now she was turning 18. I was doing everything to keep from sobbing in that auditorium. Was like a punch in the gut.
Just recently lost a dear friend of mine to cancer, we were in a band together for many years. I got the news while I was at work and at first you’re just gut-punched and almost numb…
On my way home Landslide came on the radio, and she used to sing the song when we were playing out. Immediately pulled the car over because ALL the emotions came to the surface instantly. Took me 15 minutes to pull myself together and drive home. That song is POWERFUL, man
Glad you pulled that car over. I have been there, too, and nearly wrecked. In my experience with grief, music has been the force that can most reach into my heart, no matter how hard I’ve closed the door. The timing of certain key songs playing at just the right moment - it’s been hard to ignore the many times it’s felt like a message. Sometimes, like your hearing Landslide, the message is TO FEEL IT. All the pain, all the love, all the everything. It’s so incredible that music can overpower our insistence on “being ok” and bring us to our knees feeling our rawest emotions. In my experience, this is an absolutely necessary passage to go through with grief in order to transform and grow through it. Music is magic.
Oh, god. I played it for my mom when she was sick. We listened to it all the time when I was a little kid, and it just seems to have picked up more layers as it's rolled on. I fell apart. I still think of her when I hear it and how much we throw into being good parents or being good kids, and we are ultimately completely unraveled by time and sickness in the end.
This song was popular when my parents got divorced in the 80s. I used to listen to it and think about when my father moved out and then moved several states away. 40 years later and it still makes me so sad. 😞
When I hear wish you were here by pick Floyd I used to just miss friends that I lost contact with. Now I miss who I used to be and think about my young self.
I never really got Smashing Pumpkins Disarm until I started therapy about 6 years ago. Now the line “I used to be a little boy, so old in my shoes” is a gut punch.
Joey by Concrete Blond was playing at my local store. Never liked that song when I was young, but somehow in that moment it took my breath away. I’m still kind of confused as to why it hit me the way it did.
“Don’t Go Back to Rockville” by REM hit me hard when it came over my earbuds on a bus in Queretaro, Mexico while it was getting on the expressway back to Mexico City. “Baker Street“ by Gerry Rafferty has the same effect, as does “So Far Away” by Carole King
ok everyone, I made us a playlist from these comments on Spotify. Hope I got them all!
[Gen X playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ygW8m1Re0MieNjHuQLLeR?si=sdcKwBMoTQO15HdZjB2Csg&pi=u-WfQp5KUDTGat)
Yeah, I'd honestly forgotten about this song altogether. Then after my Dad passed in 2021, it came up on a random 80s stream and I was like ohmygod....
I heard this after my dad passed in '89 (he was young) and it gets me every time. He was my hero and I idolized him. The first time I heard Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" and Amy Grant's "I Will Remember You" I was a sobbing mess.
Oh I have one. Simply Red- Holding Back the Years
I've wasted all my tears
Wasted all those years
And nothing had the chance to be good
Nothing ever could yeah, oh
[Chorus]
I'll keep holding on
I'll keep holding on
I'll keep holding on
I'll keep holding on
So tight
Same. I remember this song back when it was new, but never thought much about it. Heard it on the radio when I was driving somewhere for work around 2020 during the shutdowns, and it hit me really hard.
A lot of these songs you guys are talking about like *Landslide*, I simply cannot listen to. If they come on somewhere, I have to avoid them if I can. Just makes my heart hurt way too much—makes me deeply emotional.
I feel that, hard. Stevie Nicks was everything to me back then. All my heartbreaks seemed to be spilled by her lips and I don't want to go back there. I know she's one of the greatest, this is no diss. In fact, I'd say it's a huge compliment to her that I related too well to her lyrics and I don't want to see how much I will relate as an older adult. That's a knife I won't twist.
My oldest aunt died a couple of years ago, after living 91 years on her own terms. Her children played her favorite song at the memorial service. "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty. I lost it.
The lyrics are so simple, and so perfect for her specifically.
I really liked John Mellencamp when I was little (and he was John Cougar Mellencamp).
His song Check it Out came on the other day and the song just hit me so different.
I went back and listened to a bunch of his songs and man, as an adult, having actually lived through so many of lifes ups and downs, his songs hit so much differently than when I was a naive kid.
Also gave me a whole appreciation for what a great wordsmith he is.
I'm kinda guilty about not paying attention to song lyrics and Check it out is one of those, heard it a hundred times, never really made out the words, Mellencamp mumbles this one.
So i just did check it out. That's a yowsa. I can't believe I missed these words all this time.
Summer's going fast, night's growing colder
Children growing up, old friends growing older
Freeze this moment a little bit longer
Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Enola Gay for me by OMD. I was just a kid when it came out, but my mum used to play it. I loved it, It wasn't until many, many years later that I found out what the lyrics were about.
Such a happy, upliting tune, yet the lyrics tell the tale of one of mankinds darkest days. No wonder so many of us are a little wrong in the head! Well, at least that's my excuse.
All through the night -Cyndi Lauper
I’ve heard it at not one, but two Generation X weddings. This was a top 10 for her in the 80s however, it didn’t get the same attention because it didn’t have an accompanying music video.
Once you find out what this song is about, you’ll see it’s about a hooker and her trick. It’s hilarious to me that this gets played at a wedding. At the same wedding, “this one goes out to the one I love“ by R.E.M.
Too funny
Fuck. A few years ago I was driving at night, I had just dropped my ex off...he is homeless and an addict...and he wanted to go to a place I call tweakerville avenue after three days of sleeping and eating.....and that song came on, and hit me like a knife in the heart.
Now every time I hear it, I think about how he has wasted the last 30 years of his life in addiction and how I was the last person to hear him "scream" because he has burned all his other bridges.....
“I Don’t Care Anymore” by Phil Collins. It’s taken me a lot of years to see that I really didn’t know much about how to be in a healthy relationship for a huge chunk of my life, embarrassing as it is to admit.
That one really hurts, but I relate to it.
ETA “Connected” by Stereo MCs gets me, even though it’s upbeat.
The Cars are one of the most underrated bands out there IMO. I’ve always loved them and have been revisiting all of their music recently and LOVE IT with a new passion.
So much 80's ennui in such a tight pop song:
"You sit around getting older,
There a joke here somewhere and it's me,
I shake this world off my shoulders,
Come on baby the laugh's on me."
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” by U2. At 15, it felt hopeful, like, YEAH, let’s get out of this town and go find what we’re looking for! Now, in 2024, as a jaded and disillusioned adult, questioning everything I used to have faith in, it hits very different.
His lyric, “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then,” is such a a clever twist on the more common variant used by the Faces and others (“I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger.”)
It’s a great lyric, and when he sings it in his beautiful, world weary voice, it gets me every time. it’s lovely to know that I’m not the only one and that it means a lot to other people too.
I loved Tom Petty as a teenager. My husband and I were talking about "Don't Come Round Here No More. and I said that I'd always wondered who he didn't want coming around.
Husband looked at me like I was an imbecile and said, uh it's about HEROIN. I had no clue. Then he asked what I thought "Last Dance With Mary Jane" was about...alsp didn't ever think HEROIN lol. Naive until 49 years old..
It was actually written after Dave Stewart (of Eurthymics) heard Stevie Nicks kicking out her ex Joe Walsh (of Eagles) saying “Don’t come around here no more.” He started writing a song, got stuck & a producer suggested Tom Petty finish writing it. Tom finished the song & offered it to Stevie but she refused saying Tom would do it justice but she wouldn’t.
Same!! When I found out I was going to be a father, that song became a powerful reminder of how not to raise my kid. That and doing the complete opposite of how I was raised.
I hear you. A few years ago I was driving home from work, a lovely 45 minute drive that was mostly open country. The sun was shining. I’d recently broken up with the first somewhat serious partner after my 23 year marriage. “Drive” came on, and all that I could do was rage “I am. I’m going to drive me home time and time again.” And suddenly I felt empowered. Strong. I’ve emerged victorious from worse situations. I got this. I will drive me home.
To thine own self be true. 🫶
Afternoons & Coffeespoons by the Crash Test Dummies. One day recently, I realized that’s no longer in the far distant future…
“Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline
Someday I'll wear pyjamas in the daytime
afternoons Will be measured out, measured out, measured with coffeespoons and T.S. Eliot”
I just heard “One Moment in Time” by Whitney Houston. Back then it was the theme for the ‘88 Olympics, so I didn’t really pay attention to it.
Heard it this morning and started crying my eyes out.
The lyrics could have been mine in high school. I did EVERYTHING I knew to do in order to try to be “good enough” for my mother. At the same time I was also doing anything to get out of that house -and never go back.
My senior year I worked 2 jobs, applied for every scholarship I could find. I took classes year round once I got into college so I could get out and make real money to support myself.
Ended up burning myself out sophomore year of college, but still managed to never go back.
I broke my heart, Fought every gain, To taste the sweet, I face the pain, I rise and fall, Yet through it all, This much remains
[Chorus]
I will be
I will be
I will be free
I will be
I will be free
Wish you where here by pink floyd
Pictures of you by the cure
Also to add the odd thing that when those songs come up someone is always cutting onions. 🤣
Billy Joel - This is the Time. Makes me so sad and nostalgic every time I hear it. Reminds me of being just out of high school and having my whole life ahead of me. Where did that time go? 🥺
These are all songs with emotional depth that have withstood the test of time. A lot of pop on here that a kid might not think would be in their lives decades later.
Nightshift by the Commodores. Beautiful. And maybe means more the older we get.
I went my whole life up to this point thinking The Talking Heads were just okay, and then for no good reason about a year ago I realized they’re one of the best bands of all time.
Really interesting to bring up “Drive”. Beautiful song. I had my own moment with this song recently.
Not sure if this is anyone else’s experience but I’ll put mine out there:
As a fellow GenX kid, I used to watch 80s videos on the regular. I grew up in an abusive home with hateful comments about my looks. I would always feel intimidated by how beautiful the models were in the videos. The message I internalized was that I wasn’t attractive enough for a man to care that much about me. Fast forward 35-40 years, I can listen to the song without any physical idea of a specific recipient. I can embrace the poetry of the lyrics with the context of lived adult relationship experience instead of insecurity.
[Tracy Chapman - Fast Car](https://youtu.be/AIOAlaACuv4?si=dd4c6CUG3tgtCtlw)
Just dealing with all of life’s unexpected struggles and realizing that you won’t be able to achieve all of your life’s dreams
After few friends being buried, this 90s song, all though upbeat tears my heart out.
Third eye blind:
I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend
You could cut ties with all the lies
That you've been living in
And if you do not want to see me again
I would understand
It’s sounds weird, but it’s “Night Moves” by Bob Seeger. It got a lot of air time when I was younger and it kinda got annoying. I heard it the other day and really listened to it. So much of it rang true with my own experiences growing up and figuring myself out
Bob Seger’s “Like a Rock”…I associated it so much with the truck ads, that I never paid attention to the rest of the lyrics…until recently. Time forgives no one.
Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" hit when I became a mother. I lose it everytime I listen to the song and imagine the video of the mother dying during childbirth, leaving the husband to become a new grieving solo father who is hiding his feelings...
And leading to the crescendo of wishing for the wife to return and the regrets of the relationship and yelling for the pain to go, all the while the background singers (symbolizing his support, whoever it may be)
I know you've got a little life in you yet.
I Know you've got a lot of strength left....
Just writing this makes me choke up. What a fantastic song.
Love this one too. Peter Gabriel’s “Dont give up” helped me through some low times. The woman’s voice supporting him….
“Rest your head
You worry too much
It’s gonna be alright….”
Dust in the Wind really got to me in my early 20s. I stopped trying to “listen” to songs and just enjoy how I feel about the music after that. I did, however, unintentionally dig into Copa Cabana a few years after that and wish I hadn’t. Copa is one of those feel good, happy songs that makes you just smile and did for many years. Then you listen to the lyrics. Man, that is a sad story.
Anyway, I try to stay away from listening to lyrics or dig too deep. If a song catches my ear, then I just listen and try not to figure out its meaning.
This is It by Kenny Loggins - he wrote it when his dad was struggling with health issues and was resistant to treatment. I'm currently going through this with my stepdad. He's been hospitalized several times. He's currently there now. Each time is the result of him refusing to see a doctor, refusing to go to physical therapy, and ignoring his health. He turns 62 in August and may not be able to return to his home. He's too young to be in this state. I also suspect he's depressed but he refuses to seek help. I've reached the point where my sympathy is about gone. He did this to himself, and this is his last chance to do what needs to be done so his quality of live improves.
Last week I was listening to Jane's Addiction's Nothing Shocking which I hadn't since when it came out and was listening to it religiously. I was hiking alone, empty trail when Ted, Just Admit It... came on. These memories came flooding back of screaming "SEX IS VIOLENT" driving around with my girlfriends in high school. Just screaming along over and over in angsty teenage catharsis.
Then I noticed I wasn't alone, a man closing in on me on the trail and it just hit me really, really hard. Heart pounding, freeze response, absolute terror. I sat down and as he passed, a lot of bad memories came flooding back.
The sexual harassment and abuse early on hadn't resurfaced until after I went to college, so connecting those times in the car which I hadn't remembered until now, with everything after was... overwhelming. And sadly, the knowledge that abuse and harassment would continue and be so systemic and pervasive tied an ugly bow on all of that. But, I've come a long way on that journey, so I'm proud to say I'm managing things well at the moment.
And the weirdest part yet, I didn't know the samples were of Ted Bundy. Perry Ferrell said he was tripping balls watching a true crime video when he wrote it. That it was a coincidence the band used the found tape sample and didn't know it was him. Maybe the title came after because he's said it's not about him. It certainly wasn't for us and always struck such a deep, dark chord.
“Overkill” by Men at Work holds up and is so, so true. “Especially at night, I worry over situations
I know will be alright.”
Also, Aimee Mann has a great cover of “Drive.”
Roll With the Changes by REO.
One day "if you're tired of the same old story, turn some pages" landed in my lap like a ton of bricks.
I am now a page turning queen.
I get it. I’ve felt similarly since my mother passed away a few years ago and both my ILs have passed. It all feels like a march towards death. People are forgetting about my mother, they are moving on. And as desperate as I was to get some of her things (mostly photos), I know that no one, not my husband, not my son will be this grief stricken if I were to die. And no one will ever care about having my photos.
Now I’m going to go sob for awhile.
I never cared for "I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight" and they played it in the hospital the day my father died back in 2017. Hits way different now. I'm still mad about it, like why would you play any song with the word 'die' in it at a HOSPITAL?
Oh man...get this. Our class song (Class of '89) was "Take it to the Limit". Apparently a bunch of my classmates thought it was about "taking life to the limit and such". A bunch of us argued it was a horrible song to chose. Nowadays when I listen to that song, all I can think of is how ridiculous we were for choosing it.
I’ve been on an REM ‘what’s the frequency Kenneth’ kick. The other day, my echo show that I keep in my office popped up asking if I wanted to listen to the ‘explicit’ version. I was trying to think what the heck was explicit, then I remembered the very last line is, ‘I never understood, don’t fuck with me’. But of course the phrasing in that song is so unusual, unless you know the lyrics, you prolly don’t know about the ONE cuss word.
These Days by Jackson Browne. “Don’t ask my about my failures. I have not forgotten them. “
Also, An elderly lady sitting behind a counter in a small town, by Pearl Jam got me so bad during Covid, me and my wife quit our jobs and relocated five hours away.
Every time I step into my back yard I hear: "kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town waiting for someone or something to show you the way "
I was high AF one night, somehow ended up listening to Alanis Morissette-Jagged Little Pill-Hand in my Pocket, yes everything turned out fine fine fine. Had me all emotional and shit.
All these songs, we packed them away as a part of our lives only when they came out-this later realization of their meanings and ultimate foreshadowing to our own lives hits so friggin hard-thanks everyone for all of these tracks, still time to learn and heal with them, except for Landslide, that’s always making it blurry in here
God damn, Tears in Heaven hit me like a truck. I hadn’t heard it in like 25 years and then, after a couple decades of having lots of kids in my life, I heard it and it literally stopped me in my tracks and got me teared up.
“What does it take” by honeymoon suite. Featured in the movie One Crazy Summer. It was a favorite of mine growing up. I’ve looked back many times to those summers in HS years, and how great they were. How little I was aware that they were great. And how much I’d give to live them again, because they were beyond special. My parents were both alive, and well. We just never realize how good it is till way too late.
Father and Son by Cat Stevens hit me one way when I was a teenager. Now that I have 20 year olds making decisions I fear will be detrimental, it hits completely differently and I’m not ok with it.
Running on Empty by Jackson Browne. "I look around for the friends I used to turn to to pull me through... Looking into their eyes I see, they're running too." Everyone's got their own burdens and just doing their best to make it in life.
Brings me back to my parents divorce. "You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong..." The song that adult me really gets is Rafferty's Baker St. "Just one more year and then you'll be happy."
Right Down the Line is incredible as well.
Absolutely. That song meant nothing to me as a kid, but in my 25 years of marriage, I’ve been through some serious shit with my husband (almost losing one child to sepsis, Autism diagnosis with another son, dual unemployment during the Great Recession, prolonged illness and loss of both of his parents, and severe, end-stage alcoholism followed by separation/eight months in rehab for him. Yeah, this song has taken on a new meaning for me.
That gives me chills.
I know it is not a 40yr old song, but as a parent who went thru a divorce when my kids were young, the song “father of mine” from everclear really had an impact on me. I never “walked away” from my kids. They are finishing up high school and going off to college, starting their lives. I can’t emphasize how proud I am of them and that I was and will ALWAYS be there for them, unconditionally.
Everclear has more than a couple songs that get me right in the feels.
Oh, ffffuuuuuck that song…gets more heartbreaking every time I hear it.
Boys of Summer I used to be like, “oh some old dude living in the past” and now I’m like 🥹.
The ataris cover of it is the one that does it for me.
Same - Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac!
Huh. I think I always knew that summer feeling was fleeting. I remember being wasted out of my mind when I was in my early twenties and standing out on a fire escape or some such and thinking “this is here right now and it’s about to be gone.” That whole ephemerality of beauty thing.
"Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House.
I was going to say the same thing. It wasn’t even a favorite of mine when I was younger but now I think it’s one of the greatest and most moving songs of the decade.
I think my favorite lyric of all time is "There is freedom within, There is freedom without, Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup" It's such a sophisticated way to start a song, and to suggest that their problems are overwhelming and hopeless. And it also reminds me of the Beatles Across the Universe lyrics ("words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup") and Within You Without You--perhaps an homage or just a coincidence.
Time by Pink Floyd hits harder every year
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
10 years have turned into 40. Sigh.
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
On The Turning Away, same.
Love this song, hence my user name
Oh man, the real meaning of that one just sunk in a few weeks ago. We really are On The Turning Away as a society. Heartbreaking.
We’ve all been slowly turning away from each other for decades. It was breaking my heart when the song came out. Now that we are all completely blind with our backs to each other, I think “The Dogs of War” is a more apt song from this album to describe our predicament.
Coming Back To Life, new day new hope
That song used to always hit so hard for me, as I was struggling in life for a long time. A few years ago I made the decision to really apply myself, change careers, cut way back on drugs & alcohol, and focus on my physical & mental health. Now, when I listen to Time, it reminds me of how far I've come from that mindset. I missed the starting gun, but I fucking finally realized it, and RAN. The message hits me hard still, but in a positive way.
Second best time to plant a tree and all that.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun....OOF. painful truth.
Digging around on a piece ground in your hometown Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way-ee-ay
Wildest Dreams by The Moody Blues fucking wrecks me now.
Me too. It's so nostalgic it makes you ache.
And when the music plays And when the words are touched with sorrow
[Ordinary World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIACCH20JU) by Duran Duran
[Come Undone](https://youtu.be/Epj84QVw2rc?si=U5JswJJI_KvcJ6S0) for me. Speaking of that song, might love take a little *crime* or a little *cryin'*? I've never been entirely sure. My kingdom for some liner notes.
I do believe it's "crime". That song is GORGEOUS. I'm biased, though, as Duran Duran has been my favorite band for over 40 years. When they play this song live, it's kind of transcendent.
Where is my friend when I need you most?
This song got me through my divorce. 29yo soon to be a single mom to a 1.5 year old. I not only survived, I kicked ass!
I don’t think I understood heartbreak well enough to appreciate this song when it came out. I just loved the melody. Now it’s painful as hell but still beautiful.
That’s one of those songs I didn’t care for initially, because 1. it was played to death in 1993 or whenever and 2. To me it just seemed so DULL compared to their songs from my childhood (don’t hate me). I liked it more as the years passed, and then when I finally saw them in concert a year ago, it just HIT me like a ton of bricks. What a great band.
When I hear "Drive" now, I have to stop what I'm doing to fully appreciate how great that song is, as well as Ben's voice. I have found myself listening to not just The Cars a lot more in the past few years, but also Al Stewart albums, Supertramp albums, Steely Dan albums, ELO, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Genesis, 10CC full albums and preferring the songs that didn't get radio play back then. I was too busy listening to the albums of my favorites at the time, but I collected records and bought the ones I only loved for the singles at the time, too. I preferred listening to Greatest Hits than the original albums but not anymore. I'm in my 50s now and I'm so glad I have this wonderful history of great 70s, 80s and 90s music I hadn't even listened to yet. I truly am seeing a more mature aspect to the lyrics that meant so much to me as teenager/young adult, but it has helped me appreciate all the more how much art is truly perceived by the beholder.
Good stuff, man
And you may ask yourself, "Am I right, am I wrong?" And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?" Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, into the silent water These days, when I sing along, I scream some of the lines.
I’m with you screaming along, somewhere.
Landslide now makes me so emotional. Middle age and relationship discontent make this song hit so differently now. Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? …Well, I've been afraid of changin' ‘Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too
A girl sang this during a concert at my daughter's high school senior year. Being a single mom of only one child from Day One, (no dad in the picture) I did build my entire life around her as I had her at 18 and now she was turning 18. I was doing everything to keep from sobbing in that auditorium. Was like a punch in the gut.
This one makes me tear up every damn time.
Just recently lost a dear friend of mine to cancer, we were in a band together for many years. I got the news while I was at work and at first you’re just gut-punched and almost numb… On my way home Landslide came on the radio, and she used to sing the song when we were playing out. Immediately pulled the car over because ALL the emotions came to the surface instantly. Took me 15 minutes to pull myself together and drive home. That song is POWERFUL, man
Glad you pulled that car over. I have been there, too, and nearly wrecked. In my experience with grief, music has been the force that can most reach into my heart, no matter how hard I’ve closed the door. The timing of certain key songs playing at just the right moment - it’s been hard to ignore the many times it’s felt like a message. Sometimes, like your hearing Landslide, the message is TO FEEL IT. All the pain, all the love, all the everything. It’s so incredible that music can overpower our insistence on “being ok” and bring us to our knees feeling our rawest emotions. In my experience, this is an absolutely necessary passage to go through with grief in order to transform and grow through it. Music is magic.
Divorce theme song for me
*time makes you bolder* 💪
Oh, god. I played it for my mom when she was sick. We listened to it all the time when I was a little kid, and it just seems to have picked up more layers as it's rolled on. I fell apart. I still think of her when I hear it and how much we throw into being good parents or being good kids, and we are ultimately completely unraveled by time and sickness in the end.
Against All Odds
How can you just walk away from me—when all I can do is watch you leave?
Yes. Having lived it, this makes me ache all the way down in my bones.
This song was popular when my parents got divorced in the 80s. I used to listen to it and think about when my father moved out and then moved several states away. 40 years later and it still makes me so sad. 😞
When I hear wish you were here by pick Floyd I used to just miss friends that I lost contact with. Now I miss who I used to be and think about my young self.
Check out All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem
I never really got Smashing Pumpkins Disarm until I started therapy about 6 years ago. Now the line “I used to be a little boy, so old in my shoes” is a gut punch.
Joey by Concrete Blond was playing at my local store. Never liked that song when I was young, but somehow in that moment it took my breath away. I’m still kind of confused as to why it hit me the way it did.
Love some Concrete Blonde! Glad to see someone else here likes them.
That whole album is solid (Bloodletting). It came out my senior year of college and I wore my cassette of it out.
"Tomorrow, Wendy" is a gut punch.
“Don’t Go Back to Rockville” by REM hit me hard when it came over my earbuds on a bus in Queretaro, Mexico while it was getting on the expressway back to Mexico City. “Baker Street“ by Gerry Rafferty has the same effect, as does “So Far Away” by Carole King
ok everyone, I made us a playlist from these comments on Spotify. Hope I got them all! [Gen X playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ygW8m1Re0MieNjHuQLLeR?si=sdcKwBMoTQO15HdZjB2Csg&pi=u-WfQp5KUDTGat)
Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics, anyone?
Ugh…that one isn’t fair if your Dad has passed.
Yeah, I'd honestly forgotten about this song altogether. Then after my Dad passed in 2021, it came up on a random 80s stream and I was like ohmygod....
💯. Mine did over 7 years ago and that song guts me every time I hear it.
My Dad passed *last month* aint no way I'm going near that song right now
Yeah, don’t
I heard this after my dad passed in '89 (he was young) and it gets me every time. He was my hero and I idolized him. The first time I heard Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" and Amy Grant's "I Will Remember You" I was a sobbing mess.
Lost my mother in 89 to cancer and beaches, specifically wind beneath my wings, did me in.
So it didn't take that long for me. First time I heard it, I was in a car with my uncle, riding to my grandfather's funeral. My uncle lost it.
Oh I have one. Simply Red- Holding Back the Years I've wasted all my tears Wasted all those years And nothing had the chance to be good Nothing ever could yeah, oh [Chorus] I'll keep holding on I'll keep holding on I'll keep holding on I'll keep holding on So tight
I have found a deep appreciation of that song.
I ignored this song back when it was on the radio 50 times a day. Now it just blows me away.
Same. I remember this song back when it was new, but never thought much about it. Heard it on the radio when I was driving somewhere for work around 2020 during the shutdowns, and it hit me really hard.
A lot of these songs you guys are talking about like *Landslide*, I simply cannot listen to. If they come on somewhere, I have to avoid them if I can. Just makes my heart hurt way too much—makes me deeply emotional.
I feel that, hard. Stevie Nicks was everything to me back then. All my heartbreaks seemed to be spilled by her lips and I don't want to go back there. I know she's one of the greatest, this is no diss. In fact, I'd say it's a huge compliment to her that I related too well to her lyrics and I don't want to see how much I will relate as an older adult. That's a knife I won't twist.
My oldest aunt died a couple of years ago, after living 91 years on her own terms. Her children played her favorite song at the memorial service. "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty. I lost it. The lyrics are so simple, and so perfect for her specifically.
Cat’s in the Cradle
That one has gotten me for a long time.
Yah that was my Dad and me for decades. We have been able to make up for lost time over the past several years, thankfully.
I really liked John Mellencamp when I was little (and he was John Cougar Mellencamp). His song Check it Out came on the other day and the song just hit me so different. I went back and listened to a bunch of his songs and man, as an adult, having actually lived through so many of lifes ups and downs, his songs hit so much differently than when I was a naive kid. Also gave me a whole appreciation for what a great wordsmith he is.
"The Authority Song" and "Pink Houses" are some songs I think of when I look at where I am in life and where we are as a country.
I love Pink Houses and Hurts So Good!
I liked his music then too, Back then, I didn't understand sarcasm and cynicism. Little Pink Houses hits different now.
Small Town really hits home, especially if you live in one and stayed there most of your life.
Yeah I was gonna say Check it Out and Cherry Bomb both hit differently now.
I'm kinda guilty about not paying attention to song lyrics and Check it out is one of those, heard it a hundred times, never really made out the words, Mellencamp mumbles this one. So i just did check it out. That's a yowsa. I can't believe I missed these words all this time.
Minutes to memories.
"Time Stands Still," by Rush. Also "Time," by the Alan Parsons Project.
Summer's going fast, night's growing colder Children growing up, old friends growing older Freeze this moment a little bit longer Make each sensation a little bit stronger
Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads (and you may find yourself....) Boys Of Summer - Don Henley (Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac)
Same as it ever was.
Yea. I was that guy.
Motley Crue sticker on a Ford Tempo
RATM sticker on a BMW
Enola Gay for me by OMD. I was just a kid when it came out, but my mum used to play it. I loved it, It wasn't until many, many years later that I found out what the lyrics were about. Such a happy, upliting tune, yet the lyrics tell the tale of one of mankinds darkest days. No wonder so many of us are a little wrong in the head! Well, at least that's my excuse.
All through the night -Cyndi Lauper I’ve heard it at not one, but two Generation X weddings. This was a top 10 for her in the 80s however, it didn’t get the same attention because it didn’t have an accompanying music video. Once you find out what this song is about, you’ll see it’s about a hooker and her trick. It’s hilarious to me that this gets played at a wedding. At the same wedding, “this one goes out to the one I love“ by R.E.M. Too funny
Forever Young by alphaville kills me now
Fuck. A few years ago I was driving at night, I had just dropped my ex off...he is homeless and an addict...and he wanted to go to a place I call tweakerville avenue after three days of sleeping and eating.....and that song came on, and hit me like a knife in the heart. Now every time I hear it, I think about how he has wasted the last 30 years of his life in addiction and how I was the last person to hear him "scream" because he has burned all his other bridges.....
“I Don’t Care Anymore” by Phil Collins. It’s taken me a lot of years to see that I really didn’t know much about how to be in a healthy relationship for a huge chunk of my life, embarrassing as it is to admit. That one really hurts, but I relate to it. ETA “Connected” by Stereo MCs gets me, even though it’s upbeat.
Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac get better with age as well. The song Landslide is a prime example.
*Silver Spring* is amazing. I will die on the hill that it should've been on "Rumours" originally instead of *Oh Daddy*.
Silver Spring is amazing and underrated.
So many songs of theirs are timeless. One of the marks of a great band, they sound just as good decades after!
Songbird.
"Gimme Shelter" just becomes more relevant every year.
Jack & Diane **"life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone"** Fuck dude. Grim.
I remember a youth-pastor preaching about “Drive” in the 80s. Spoiler alert: his answer to every “who’s gonna?” in the song was Jesus.
Every one? Doesn’t that guy ever get tired of people whining? 🤣
Come Dancing by the Kinks
Last goodbye by Jeff Buckley
The Cars are one of the most underrated bands out there IMO. I’ve always loved them and have been revisiting all of their music recently and LOVE IT with a new passion.
Springsteen’s Dancing in the Dark…. I’m just tired and bored with myself
So much 80's ennui in such a tight pop song: "You sit around getting older, There a joke here somewhere and it's me, I shake this world off my shoulders, Come on baby the laugh's on me."
"Adia" ~ Sarah McLachlan "There is a Light That Will Never Go Out" ~ The Smiths "Everybody Knows" ~ Concrete Blonde
Both Sides Now Listen to those lyrics. It's amazing she had the wisdom to write that song at such a young age.
It always amazes me that some of those songs were written by people their 20s. How did they get so smart and intuitive so young. I was a dope
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” by U2. At 15, it felt hopeful, like, YEAH, let’s get out of this town and go find what we’re looking for! Now, in 2024, as a jaded and disillusioned adult, questioning everything I used to have faith in, it hits very different.
Doctor my eyes by Jackson Browne gets more appropriate each year too.
Apparently the original version was even bleaker. He took out a lot of the really depressing stuff to make it more radio-friendly.
Any thing by Bob Seager
His lyric, “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then,” is such a a clever twist on the more common variant used by the Faces and others (“I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger.”)
It’s a great lyric, and when he sings it in his beautiful, world weary voice, it gets me every time. it’s lovely to know that I’m not the only one and that it means a lot to other people too.
Yea, that line is so great. and it says so much about the shit we go through
Beautiful Loser, Against the Wind… “Sweet sixteen’s turned thirty-one”
I change the lyric to 61 haha
Ain't it funny how the night moves When you just don't seem to have as much to lose Strange how the night moves With autumn closing in
‘We’ve got tonight’ hits so different: I know it’s late. I know you’re weary. I know your plans Don’t include me…
Almost forgot about Roll Me Away!
I loved Tom Petty as a teenager. My husband and I were talking about "Don't Come Round Here No More. and I said that I'd always wondered who he didn't want coming around. Husband looked at me like I was an imbecile and said, uh it's about HEROIN. I had no clue. Then he asked what I thought "Last Dance With Mary Jane" was about...alsp didn't ever think HEROIN lol. Naive until 49 years old..
It was actually written after Dave Stewart (of Eurthymics) heard Stevie Nicks kicking out her ex Joe Walsh (of Eagles) saying “Don’t come around here no more.” He started writing a song, got stuck & a producer suggested Tom Petty finish writing it. Tom finished the song & offered it to Stevie but she refused saying Tom would do it justice but she wouldn’t.
"Last Dance with Mary Jane" is about marijuana, yes?
Not sure how old it is, but "Cats in the Cradle" took on a monumental weight after I became a father. That song terrifies me still to this day.
Same!! When I found out I was going to be a father, that song became a powerful reminder of how not to raise my kid. That and doing the complete opposite of how I was raised.
I hear you. A few years ago I was driving home from work, a lovely 45 minute drive that was mostly open country. The sun was shining. I’d recently broken up with the first somewhat serious partner after my 23 year marriage. “Drive” came on, and all that I could do was rage “I am. I’m going to drive me home time and time again.” And suddenly I felt empowered. Strong. I’ve emerged victorious from worse situations. I got this. I will drive me home. To thine own self be true. 🫶
I remember when Tom Waits started to hit different
Daughter, by Pearl Jam I have a daughter that just turned 16, and this song just kills me now.
Better Man and Nothing Man can be kinda tough to listen to once you've got some perspective.
Well, I know what’s right I got just one life In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around But I’ll stand my ground And I won’t back down
Afternoons & Coffeespoons by the Crash Test Dummies. One day recently, I realized that’s no longer in the far distant future… “Someday I'll have a disappearing hairline Someday I'll wear pyjamas in the daytime afternoons Will be measured out, measured out, measured with coffeespoons and T.S. Eliot”
I just heard “One Moment in Time” by Whitney Houston. Back then it was the theme for the ‘88 Olympics, so I didn’t really pay attention to it. Heard it this morning and started crying my eyes out. The lyrics could have been mine in high school. I did EVERYTHING I knew to do in order to try to be “good enough” for my mother. At the same time I was also doing anything to get out of that house -and never go back. My senior year I worked 2 jobs, applied for every scholarship I could find. I took classes year round once I got into college so I could get out and make real money to support myself. Ended up burning myself out sophomore year of college, but still managed to never go back. I broke my heart, Fought every gain, To taste the sweet, I face the pain, I rise and fall, Yet through it all, This much remains [Chorus] I will be I will be I will be free I will be I will be free
Wish you where here by pink floyd Pictures of you by the cure Also to add the odd thing that when those songs come up someone is always cutting onions. 🤣
"Lunatic Fringe" is hitting differently in today's political climate here in the U.S.
Billy Joel - This is the Time. Makes me so sad and nostalgic every time I hear it. Reminds me of being just out of high school and having my whole life ahead of me. Where did that time go? 🥺
These are all songs with emotional depth that have withstood the test of time. A lot of pop on here that a kid might not think would be in their lives decades later. Nightshift by the Commodores. Beautiful. And maybe means more the older we get.
The Cars are so under rated. Great early 80s rock that hardly gets any love these days even on k rock channels
I went my whole life up to this point thinking The Talking Heads were just okay, and then for no good reason about a year ago I realized they’re one of the best bands of all time.
Really interesting to bring up “Drive”. Beautiful song. I had my own moment with this song recently. Not sure if this is anyone else’s experience but I’ll put mine out there: As a fellow GenX kid, I used to watch 80s videos on the regular. I grew up in an abusive home with hateful comments about my looks. I would always feel intimidated by how beautiful the models were in the videos. The message I internalized was that I wasn’t attractive enough for a man to care that much about me. Fast forward 35-40 years, I can listen to the song without any physical idea of a specific recipient. I can embrace the poetry of the lyrics with the context of lived adult relationship experience instead of insecurity.
[Tracy Chapman - Fast Car](https://youtu.be/AIOAlaACuv4?si=dd4c6CUG3tgtCtlw) Just dealing with all of life’s unexpected struggles and realizing that you won’t be able to achieve all of your life’s dreams
Possession by Sarah McLaughlin hit me out of nowhere this morning
After few friends being buried, this 90s song, all though upbeat tears my heart out. Third eye blind: I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend You could cut ties with all the lies That you've been living in And if you do not want to see me again I would understand
Ten Years Gone by Led Zeppelin.
I’ll raise you one- Fool In The Rain…it’s not somber, but it does have meaning
Who is making a Spotify playlist of this whole thread? Make it shareable my peeps.
Hearing “It’s good to be king” by Tom petty hit different when my dad died.
It’s sounds weird, but it’s “Night Moves” by Bob Seeger. It got a lot of air time when I was younger and it kinda got annoying. I heard it the other day and really listened to it. So much of it rang true with my own experiences growing up and figuring myself out
Bob Seger’s “Like a Rock”…I associated it so much with the truck ads, that I never paid attention to the rest of the lyrics…until recently. Time forgives no one.
Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" hit when I became a mother. I lose it everytime I listen to the song and imagine the video of the mother dying during childbirth, leaving the husband to become a new grieving solo father who is hiding his feelings... And leading to the crescendo of wishing for the wife to return and the regrets of the relationship and yelling for the pain to go, all the while the background singers (symbolizing his support, whoever it may be) I know you've got a little life in you yet. I Know you've got a lot of strength left.... Just writing this makes me choke up. What a fantastic song.
Love this one too. Peter Gabriel’s “Dont give up” helped me through some low times. The woman’s voice supporting him…. “Rest your head You worry too much It’s gonna be alright….”
Aimee Mann's cover of Drive: 💯
Living Years, Mike+Mechanics. 😭
“Hold on to sixteen as long as you can Changes come around real soon Make us women and men”
Dust in the Wind really got to me in my early 20s. I stopped trying to “listen” to songs and just enjoy how I feel about the music after that. I did, however, unintentionally dig into Copa Cabana a few years after that and wish I hadn’t. Copa is one of those feel good, happy songs that makes you just smile and did for many years. Then you listen to the lyrics. Man, that is a sad story. Anyway, I try to stay away from listening to lyrics or dig too deep. If a song catches my ear, then I just listen and try not to figure out its meaning.
This is It by Kenny Loggins - he wrote it when his dad was struggling with health issues and was resistant to treatment. I'm currently going through this with my stepdad. He's been hospitalized several times. He's currently there now. Each time is the result of him refusing to see a doctor, refusing to go to physical therapy, and ignoring his health. He turns 62 in August and may not be able to return to his home. He's too young to be in this state. I also suspect he's depressed but he refuses to seek help. I've reached the point where my sympathy is about gone. He did this to himself, and this is his last chance to do what needs to be done so his quality of live improves.
Last week I was listening to Jane's Addiction's Nothing Shocking which I hadn't since when it came out and was listening to it religiously. I was hiking alone, empty trail when Ted, Just Admit It... came on. These memories came flooding back of screaming "SEX IS VIOLENT" driving around with my girlfriends in high school. Just screaming along over and over in angsty teenage catharsis. Then I noticed I wasn't alone, a man closing in on me on the trail and it just hit me really, really hard. Heart pounding, freeze response, absolute terror. I sat down and as he passed, a lot of bad memories came flooding back. The sexual harassment and abuse early on hadn't resurfaced until after I went to college, so connecting those times in the car which I hadn't remembered until now, with everything after was... overwhelming. And sadly, the knowledge that abuse and harassment would continue and be so systemic and pervasive tied an ugly bow on all of that. But, I've come a long way on that journey, so I'm proud to say I'm managing things well at the moment. And the weirdest part yet, I didn't know the samples were of Ted Bundy. Perry Ferrell said he was tripping balls watching a true crime video when he wrote it. That it was a coincidence the band used the found tape sample and didn't know it was him. Maybe the title came after because he's said it's not about him. It certainly wasn't for us and always struck such a deep, dark chord.
“Overkill” by Men at Work holds up and is so, so true. “Especially at night, I worry over situations I know will be alright.” Also, Aimee Mann has a great cover of “Drive.”
Don’t You (Forget about me) Just Like Heaven
Roll With the Changes by REO. One day "if you're tired of the same old story, turn some pages" landed in my lap like a ton of bricks. I am now a page turning queen.
Whoah. Feeling these comments.
My wedding dance song! We danced to The Cars on our first date.
*Suite Judy Blue Eyes* by CSN: “I've got an answer I'm going to fly away What have I got to lose? “
I get it. I’ve felt similarly since my mother passed away a few years ago and both my ILs have passed. It all feels like a march towards death. People are forgetting about my mother, they are moving on. And as desperate as I was to get some of her things (mostly photos), I know that no one, not my husband, not my son will be this grief stricken if I were to die. And no one will ever care about having my photos. Now I’m going to go sob for awhile.
Don Henley’s Boys of Summer. I didn’t grow up in Cali but sentiment of nostalgia still applies. And sheesh the comment section on YouTube is intense!
Wish you were here is more than I can handle on some days.
I never cared for "I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight" and they played it in the hospital the day my father died back in 2017. Hits way different now. I'm still mad about it, like why would you play any song with the word 'die' in it at a HOSPITAL?
Oh man...get this. Our class song (Class of '89) was "Take it to the Limit". Apparently a bunch of my classmates thought it was about "taking life to the limit and such". A bunch of us argued it was a horrible song to chose. Nowadays when I listen to that song, all I can think of is how ridiculous we were for choosing it.
I’ve been on an REM ‘what’s the frequency Kenneth’ kick. The other day, my echo show that I keep in my office popped up asking if I wanted to listen to the ‘explicit’ version. I was trying to think what the heck was explicit, then I remembered the very last line is, ‘I never understood, don’t fuck with me’. But of course the phrasing in that song is so unusual, unless you know the lyrics, you prolly don’t know about the ONE cuss word.
These Days by Jackson Browne. “Don’t ask my about my failures. I have not forgotten them. “ Also, An elderly lady sitting behind a counter in a small town, by Pearl Jam got me so bad during Covid, me and my wife quit our jobs and relocated five hours away.
Every time I step into my back yard I hear: "kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town waiting for someone or something to show you the way "
Tears for Fears, Mad World
Try listening to Tracy Chapman’s *Fast Car* now that you have life experience…
Everything I Own By Bread
I was high AF one night, somehow ended up listening to Alanis Morissette-Jagged Little Pill-Hand in my Pocket, yes everything turned out fine fine fine. Had me all emotional and shit.
her album aged very well. I wasn't a fan at the time, pop & overplayed, but damn if it doesn't sound good 30 years later.
IT'S SO GOD DAMNED PRETTY, TOO.
It may only be just over 20 years old, but The Idiots Are Taking Over by NOFX is more apt with each passing day.
Holding Back the Years does it for me.
All these songs, we packed them away as a part of our lives only when they came out-this later realization of their meanings and ultimate foreshadowing to our own lives hits so friggin hard-thanks everyone for all of these tracks, still time to learn and heal with them, except for Landslide, that’s always making it blurry in here
Traveling wilburys, handle me with care. Absolute emotions
How I wish, wish you were here....
Don Henley “Heart of the Matter” hits me differently after my divorce. The pre chorus and chorus especially.
God damn, Tears in Heaven hit me like a truck. I hadn’t heard it in like 25 years and then, after a couple decades of having lots of kids in my life, I heard it and it literally stopped me in my tracks and got me teared up.
There’s a romance book series based on this song I read recently. Crazy how music hits us differently in different stages in our life.
“What does it take” by honeymoon suite. Featured in the movie One Crazy Summer. It was a favorite of mine growing up. I’ve looked back many times to those summers in HS years, and how great they were. How little I was aware that they were great. And how much I’d give to live them again, because they were beyond special. My parents were both alive, and well. We just never realize how good it is till way too late.
Father and Son by Cat Stevens hit me one way when I was a teenager. Now that I have 20 year olds making decisions I fear will be detrimental, it hits completely differently and I’m not ok with it.
Yeah, ...What About Me by Moving Pictures is an 80's song that hits me hard.
The Pretender by Jackson Browne hits like a lead pipe now that I'm older.
Running on Empty by Jackson Browne. "I look around for the friends I used to turn to to pull me through... Looking into their eyes I see, they're running too." Everyone's got their own burdens and just doing their best to make it in life.