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"Old Friends" sure fits. Well, heck, how about "When I'm 64" (which, for me, will be in 8 months). :smile:
 
When I'm 64 is a perfect example of a beautiful, upbeat, sentimental song that doesn't fit.

It's sung from the singer to their dearly beloved about their love together. So it's a love song, not self reflection.

And crucially, it's looking forward, not back.


Doesn't make me love the song less. Just makes it one for a different list.
 
Apologies if someone mentioned this one already, maybe it will please both factions....it's a look back at a fairly depressing life - no singular love interest, just a recap of miserable events - but with a catchy, almost upbeat pop melody.
 
You're the first to mention it, tcherek. That one's a good fit.

I have to admit I didn't mention it earlier because it's kind'a depressing. But you're right, it belongs on the list. And it is a very pretty, albeit solemn, song.
 
I always liked John Prine's "Souvenirs" (Co written with Steve Goodman) and "Paradise". Although for the context of this thread, Paradise may be too specific.
 
I can agree on both counts.

Souvenirs works.

I think Paradise is actually a love song, but to a place and way of life lost rather than a person. It reminisces of a childhood, framed in relation to the place rather than the flow of one's life.
 
I think I've got a good one. I KNOW it has the best bass line ever recorded......one of my favorite songs, can't believe I didn't think of it before now. Turn up your speakers for this one.

 
And how about....

Jimmy Buffett - "Migration"

Kenny Rogers - "Twenty Years Ago"

Alan Jackson - "The Little Man"

- Doug
 
Then, there's this.........
 
I'll agree with Franco for driving :cool:, but right now I'm here for music. :p

Again, I apologize if I reject some great songs. I'm just trying to keep to the specifications for "the list."


Traces of Love, The Things We Did Last Summer and A Cottage for Sale are definitely lost-love songs. So unfortunately, they're out.

Stevie Wonder's I Wish makes the cut. (Ironically, Neil Diamond's Shiloh doesn't, even though both are about wishing for the simpler days of childhood. In Neil's song he's wishing because a girl just dumped him. So it's a lost-love song verses Wonder's, which is purely a reminiscence.)

Migration is definitely in.

Both Twenty Years Ago and The Little Man are more tributes to places and times rather than self reflection on one's own journey. Sorry, they're out, too.

Memory Lane is in! And Thank You for posting that piece from one of the greatest entertainers of all time!
 
Otis Redding
 
OK - I've got one more. (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young. Covered by Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee among others.
 
Speaking of Peggy Lee:

 
Daughter - a singer - came up with more. Yesterdays(Jerome Kern). Tom Waits broken Bicycles, Try To Remember (The Fantasticks), Sunrise, Sunset(?)
 
Still feel like this should count - but hasn't been mentioned

 
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