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The song is a reminiscence of the narrator's formative years, its lyrics describing how much the world has changed since his childhood. Examples abound of how mothers "smoked and drank" during pregnancy, lead-based paint was available, children drank water out of garden hoses and rode bicycles without helmets or other safety equipment, parents physically disciplined their children when they ...
"Long, Long Ago" is a song dealing with nostalgia, written in 1833 by English composer Thomas Haynes Bayly.Originally called "The Long Ago", its name was apparently changed by the editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold when it was first published, posthumously, in a Philadelphia magazine, along with a collection of other songs and poems by Bayly.
Back in the Day (Ahmad song) Back in the Day (Missy Elliott song) Back Then (CDB song) Back Then Right Now; Back to the 80s (song) Back When; Back When My Hair Was Short; Baggy Trousers; Be Here Now (George Harrison song) Beach Baby; The Best Year of My Life (song) Birth of Rock and Roll; La Bohème (Charles Aznavour song) Bookends (song) The ...
"Those Were the Days" is a song composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) but credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to Fomin's Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu", [a] with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. The song is a reminiscence of youth and romantic idealism.
A live music video performance for "2011" was released in December 2021. [6] Upon the live performance, the band stated that they wanted to create "something that captures the pursuit of creation, the love of the relationship we have with our fans and the endless boundary of what it means to be in a band."
"JCB" is a folk-pop song reminiscence of Concannon's childhood and reflects on the anguish he received because of his dyslexia. [3] [4] It is sung from the point of view of a young boy whose father picks him up from school in a JCB digger. [5] The boy, sitting on a toolbox, [3] and his father drive down a bypass, holding up traffic and laughing.
"They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" is a song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth, inspired by the death of their close friend Troy Dixon (better known as "Trouble" T. Roy of Heavy D & the Boyz) in 1990. The song was the lead single off their debut album, Mecca and the Soul Brother , released in 1992, and later became a staple of early 1990s hip hop.
"The Boys of Summer" uses a repeating guitar riff. It was recorded in the key of F ♯ major with a tempo of 88 beats per minute. Henley's vocals span F ♯ 3 to A ♯ 4. [7] [8]The lyrics appear to be about the passing of youth and entering middle age, with the nostalgic theme of "summer love" [9] and reminiscence of a past relationship. [10]