Help The Aged

"My friends are gone and my hair is gray
I ache in the places where I used to play"
- Leonard Cohen, Tower of Song

Aging as in growing old - XTC's "Dying".

Aging as in growing 'up' - The Smiths' "Rubber Ring"

If you can remember them, would you quote your favourite line or two in this thread?

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs
Now he's cooled and stiffled, and it's she who has to beg

That's Pete Townshend, "Slit Skirs," my favorite song about aging.

"What sticks in my mind is the sweet jar on the sideboard. And your multicolored tea cosy. What sticks in my mind is the dew-drop hanging off your nose, shrivelled up and blue. And I'm getting older, too but I don't want to die like you. Don't want to die like you" - that's the XTC one.

Pulp made a song called "Help The Aged" so... the BEASTIE BOYS took it a step further and made a song called "BOOMIN' GRANNY" about a sexy grandmother..

All Gilbert O'Sullivan songs, but especially this one:

We Will It's over now you've had your fun get up them stairs go on quickly don't run Take off your shoes the both of you's leave them down outside the door turn the landing light off, no wait, leave it on it might make the night that easier to be gone and in the morning who'll be wide a wake and eating snow flakes as opposed to those flakes. (We Will) We Will (We Will) We will That afternoon we spend the day with uncle Frank (remember?) and his wife auntie Mae well do you know since then I've recieved up to four letters all of which repeat the same they say Thrilled to bits can't believe you came we relived it both over time and time again and if there's even a chance or even half you might be our way would you promise to stay (We will) We will (We will) We Will Yeah..yeah..yeah Oh its no easy pretending that you cannot hear once you've suffered the reflections within It's no use in an ending to proclaim from the start that the moral of the stories to begin. On Sunday next if the weather holds we'll have that game but I bagsy-being-in-goal not because I'm good or because I think I should it's just that well at my age I think standing still would really suit me best do we all agree? hands up those who do hands up those who don't I see well in that case will we please be kind enough if not on Sunday to go to mass on Monday (We will) We will (We will ) We will yeah yeah (We will)

I will allow you to make up your own line-breaks.

we're tuneful cute and giving see that's how we make our living In a hall full of corpses we'd smile and bounce on Some say that it's aimless bullshit, Ah but they come from big houses and budgets And although I don't look it I'm getting really fucking old

From 'the white knuckle express' by The Fatima Mansions off the Viva Dead Ponies LP. The final lines of that song are

He will stroke your long hair tenderly in all the waterfront bars Where the wine and hollow talk of men muffle things that really, really are And he'll walk back to your flat, with you on your healthy sandalled feet To come out minutes later, bleeding, torn above and torn beneath.

Which I've always loved. Digressing a bit there. sorry.

Tangent thread about getting older & buying a minivan & a house in the suburbs..

Marianne Faithfull-The Ballad of Lucy Jordan

"At the age of 37, she realized she'd never drive through Paris in a sportscar with the warm wind in her hair."

I felt very sad the day I realized I'd outlived not just Jimi and Janis and Jesus, but Lucy Jordan, too!

So you're a little bit older and a lot less bolder
Than you used to be
So you used to shake 'em down
But now you stop and think about your dignity
So now sweet sixteens turned thirty-one
You get to feelin' weary when the work days done
Well all you got to do is get up and into your kicks
If you're in a fix
Come back baby
Rock and roll never forgets
Bob Seger, "Rock and Roll Never Forgets"

I like Seger's lyric better than Townshend's.

please please please don't no-one post "When I'm 64." (Yes, that includes you, Messrs. q. and Raggett, you contrary chappies :-)