Time Won’t Wait - Jamiroquai
Do us Spanish rednecks get a waiver for a) not wanting to repeat songs others have already mentioned and b) not wanting to mention songs most people in these boards wouldn’t understand anyway?
No?
Oh well.
Here, let’s make it redder… You’re Gonna Miss This (Trace Adkins)
Joy Division: The Eternal, Decades, A Means To An End
Cats in the cradle - Chapin
So young - Coors
Forever Young - alpha idle
100 years - ?
Free four - Floyd (“you shuffle in the gloom of a sick room, and talk to yourself as you die”, or the more happy part " Life is a short warm moment. Death is a long cold rest")
Jack and Diane - JCM
Time - APP
Reelin in the years - Doobies
These aren’t exactly about mortality but about how life passes quickly:
“Sunrise, Sunset” (from Fiddler on the Roof)
“Turn Around” (Malvina Reynolds)
“When I Grow Up to Be a Man” (Beach Boys)
“Nothing to Say” (Kinks)
“The Circle Game” (Joni Mitchell)
End of The Walking Dead last night reminded me of another:
“The Regulator” by Clutch ( was gobsmacked when I heard it start playing. “Oh, wow, it’s a Clutch song, on television!”
Makers by Rocky Votolato
Body in a Box by City and Colour
D.O.A. by Bloodrock.
That was pretty grim back in 1971.
Kate Bush’s song suite The Ninth Wave is about a person lost at sea, who either drowns and is reborn, or experiences a nightmare about drowning and is rescued. Kate is very coy about which one is correct, and has never said one way or the other definitively.
…and pretty much anything else by Nick Cave.
Do you realise? - the Flaming lips
“Do you realise
that everyone
you know
some day
will die?”
Stand to Your Glasses Steady (trad military)
The Oxford Girl and We Could Leave Right Now by Oysterband
Not Dark Yet by His Bobness of Dylan.
I’ve been listening to this song (and album) a lot lately:
Kathleen Edwards - Alicia Ross. Based on a true story, etc.
I came here to recommend The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell as well.
Sixteen springs, sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels 'round the town
And they tell him take your time it won’t be long now
Until you drag your feet to slow the circles down
Done Too Soon - Neil Diamond
Song for Adam - Jackson Browne
Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger (?)
Turn Around - Malvina Reynolds (I admit I had to look that one up)
The End - The Doors
In My Hour Of Darkness-Gram Parsons
The Angels Rejoiced Last Night - Gram Parsons
Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen
A whole lotta Misfits and Alkaline Trio songs
The Commander Thinks Aloud–The Long Winters
My Shit’s Fucked Up - Warren Zevon
Opening line: “Well, I went to the doctor. Said I’m feeling kinda rough. Let me break it to you, son: your shit’s fucked up.”
The group’s name is Alphaville.
Time Waits For No One the Rolling Stones