6 Songs About Gettin' Older

Songs about growing up or getting old sometimes make you cry a little or smile a little but they always make you think either about the past or future. I must admit when I hear these songs I usually think about the future (that’s because I’m young I guess or maybe I don’t have a lot of regrets about the past). They make me nostalgic and I even dream a little. So here’s the list of great songs about getting older and wiser. I like all of them duh. I wouldn’t put them here if I wouldn’t like them.

Toby Keith – Don’t Let The Old Man In

When you’ll get old don’t forget not to let the old man in to live inside you. Try to always feel young and have fun. Don’t let sad feeling to get to you. Life is short so love big, live smart, love your family, friends, God and country music. That’s the recipe for a great life. I feel like this song is saying these things to me.

Alan Jackson – The Older I Get

What this song is saying to me is that: I should live smart and try to have happy life. Be good to everyone around me. Live every minute of the life that we have on earth. Cherish every moment that you spend with people you love, because it’s the people you love, not the money and stuff that makes you rich. That’s what I’ll do because that makes you happy. Like Alan Jackson sung in this song when I’ll be old I want to listen to that song and say: Yes, if they found a fountain of youth, I wouldn’t drink a drop and that’s the truth.

Trace Adkins – You’re Gonna Miss This

When we’re young we dream of being adults and when finally we are adults it turns out it ain’t as fun as we thought. The lesson is to live every moment and don’t worry about the future or past because you can’t change the past and you don’t know what future will bring. I know that in couple of months when I graduate from college I’m gonna wish these days hadn’t gone by so fast. I’m not going to miss the studies but the people I met, most magnificent group of people I’ve met so far in my life. 

Tim McGraw – Don’t Take The Girl

A simple ballad about three stages in a young man’s life. In every stage of his life a word “takes” has different meanings. Third verse is most powerful and it will be moved. It made me cry but a lot of country songs do it. I get emotional very I hear great story in country songs. I’m what I’m, leave me alone, hahaha. When I heard this song for the first time and Tim McGraw sung Johnny’s daddy was takin’ him fishin’. Take Jimmy Johnson, take Tommy Thompson, Take my best friend, Bo, Take anybody that you want as long as she don’t go, take any boy in the world daddy, please don’t take the girl. I smiled a little and said: Boy, you don’t know but she’s gonna be a love of your life. So I thought I knew how this song will end but it was most tragic ending you can imagine. Hear it for yourself. I’m not going to tell you more. 

Brad Paisley – Then

It’s beautiful, amazing and magnificent love song about how much man’s love for his girl has grown since they started dating. I’ve just realized that this song should be on my list of “songs to play for that special one, not any other gal”. One simple sentence repeated in this song, makes it amazing: “I thought I loved you then”. Come on it melts my heart. It you don’t like this you don’t like country music.

Kenny Chesney – Don’t Blink

Life is so fast and goes by like an episode of your TV show. There’s simple solution to that Don’t Blink, just kidding. But really life’s like that, you’re six, then you like eighteen, blink you’re thirty five, bam you’re fifty and it’s time for midlife crisis, another blink and you’re one hundred and two and Grim Reaper comes to visit you and he hit his wrist watch with index finger and says: “It’s time, Steve” and you say:”Common man, I have many years to live, I’m still young man” and Grim Reaper says: “You have two more years to live, see you later” and you gladly say “ok”