Diana Ross’s “Love Child”
I started my life in an old, cold run down tenement slum
My father left, he never even married mom
I shared the guilt my mama knew
So afraid that others knew I had no name.
Guilt and shame because she’s the child of unwed parents?
Allow me to let you in on a secret - Melanie was speaking metaphorically. I don’t think she really had any skates, even then. 
Memphis Minnie’s Ice Man (Come On Up):
I got ice man in the spring, coal man in the fall.
All I need now to get my ashes hauled.
The Kinks’s Mr Pleasant: Describing a nouveau riche guy who’s smug about his material possessions (and doesn’t realize he’s being cuckolded):
How’s your brand new limousine
24 inch TV screen
24 inches - not that impressive anymore. Today you can pick one up for less than $150.
In Mick Jagger’s solo single Just Another Night, he whines about being alone in his posh “hundred-dollar hotel room”. While $100/night was swanky in 1985, now that will get you an perfectly average room in a mid-range Hampton Inn.
Can we assume you ain’t gonna play Sun City, then?
Ah the '80s, those were days of Miracles and Wonders, after all…
“Beachwood 4-5789” (hint: it’s a phone number).
He was the famous trumpet man from up Chicago way,
He had a Boogie style that no one else could play;
He was the top man at his craft,
But then his number came up,
And he was gone with draft!
He’s in the Army now a-blowing reveille,
He’s the boogie-woogie bugle boy
Of company B!
“Heat of the Moment”, Asia, Asia:
I recalling a recording of a live show in 1983 where John Wetton tweaked the lyrics for currency:
Wikipedia addresses this:
That would be a neat trick for certain years. What rhymes with “fourteen”? (Never mind that it doesn’t scan.)
Well, good point, but I meant that that the ‘skate key’ would need explaining to kids today.
How about " Wonderful World " :
Don’t know much about algebra
Don’t know what a slide rule is for
Of course he doesn’t know what it’s for either, so nothing has changed really.
Any song that refers to a grown woman as “little girl”.
I’ll take “little girl” over what some of the rappers call us. 
The Sex Pistol’s reference to the Berlin Wall in Holidays in the Sun:
Sensurround sound in a two inch wall
Well I was waiting for the communist call
I didn’t ask for sunshine and I got World War Three
I’m looking over the wall and they’re looking at me
When my sister and I told my nephew about the Berlin Wall he thought it was the craziest thing he ever heard of.
Is he wrong?
Does “Time Is on My Side” count? It isn’t exactly on Mick Jagger’s side anymore. And Keith Richards is probably on borrowed time.
“You and me baby, we ain’t nothing but mammals,
So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.”
Yes, I’m old enough that I remember a time when they actually showed a lot of nature/animal shows on the Discovery Channel.
Return to sender, address unknown.
No such number, no such zone.
Elvis recorded the song in 1962. In 1963, the USPS did away with zones when they introduced the ZIP* code.
*Zone Improvement Plan
It’s almost too easy if you go back far enough, but because this song was popular enough to get play whenever someone is doing a period piece, so a lot of people have heard it, “Paper Moon.”
Without your love, it’s a honky-tonk parade;
Without your love, it’s a melody played
In a penny arcade.
It’s a Barnum and Bailey world,
Just as phony as it can be…
A lot of people haven’t ever been to a stage play where the scenery was made from cardboard cutouts, but they were more common before TV, penny arcades don’t exist anymore, and really young people don’t even get the “Barnum & Bailey” reference.
Young man your transfer’s expired
Would you please pay a full fare?
I just got this transfer
Hey can you open up the back door?
Either you pay your 65 cents
Or you’ll have to leave the bus
You got to be kidding me, I just got it
Would you please open up the back door?
Violent Femmes - Waiting For The Bus
When was the last time that was close to being true?
Other than that line, the song is fairly timeless.
Well, we’re big rock singers
We got golden fingers
And we’re loved everywhere we go…(That sounds like us)
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show…(Right)
And along the same lines, the Kingston Trio’s “MTA”
“Well, let me tell you of the story of a man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful day
He put ten cents in his pocket, kissed his wife and family
Went to ride on the MTA…”
If I could call you up, and use my cellphone minutes for once instead of data bandwidth, … Nah, doesn’t scan.