Songs About Nostalgia

Beach Baby - The First Class

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oeGPpwFpIAA

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Do you remember back in old LA?
When everybody drove a Chevrolet?
Whatever happened to the boy next door?
The suntanned, crew cut, all American male?

Remember dancin' at the high school hop?
The dress I ruined with the soda pop?
I didn't recognize the girl next door
With beat up sneakers and a ponytail

Beach baby, beach baby
Give me your hand
Give me somethin' that I can remember
Just like before
We could walk by the shore
In the moonlight
Beach baby, beach baby
There on the sand
From July to the end of September
Surfin' is fun
We'd be out in the sun everyday

Umm
I never thought that it would end
Ooh
And I was everybody's friend
Long hot days
Cool sea haze
Jukebox plays
But now it's fading away

Ah
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do
Do, do, do
Do, do, do

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
We couldn't wait for graduation day
We took the car and drove to San Jose
That's where you told me that you'd wear my ring
I guess you don't remember anything

Beach baby, beach baby
Give me your hand
Give me somethin' that I can remember
Just like before
We could walk by the shore
In the moonlight
Beach baby, beach baby
There on the sand
From July to the end of September
Surfin' is fun
We'd be out in the sun everyday

Youth by Soft Cell.

https://youtu.be/g2ciUJzRqMM

Youth has gone
I heard you say
It doesn't matter
Anyway
Don't hide the photos
Or turn off the lights
I'm quite sure we've both seen
Funnier sights
Youth
Sleep in a deep deep deep
Beauty is skin deep
Youth has gone
Though we're still young
It's hard I know to believe
That I was somebody's son
The memories
Of what you once were
The memories of what
We both were
Youth
Sleep in a deep deep deep
Beauty is skin deep
Youth has gone
Though don't think
I don't cry
We let ourselves slip
And now
I ask myself why
I'm on my own
And don't think I really mind
When after all
The years have been fairly kind
Youth
Sleep in a deep deep deep
Beauty is skin deep
Sleep in a deep deep deep
Beauty is skin deep
Youth... Youth... Sleep!

Missing by Everything But The Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRmmAZ80AB0

I step off the train

I'm walking down your street again

And past your door, but you don't live there anymore
It's years since you've been there
And now you've disappeared somewhere, like outer space
You've found some better place
And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain
Could you be dead?
You always were two steps ahead, of everyone
We'd walk behind while you would run
I look up at your house
And I can almost hear you shout down to me
Where I always used to be
And I miss you (like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you (like the deserts miss the rain)
Back on the train, I ask why did I come again?
Can I confess, I've been hanging round your old address?
And the years have proved
To offer, nothing since you've moved
You're long gone, but I can't move on
And I miss you (like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, yeah (like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you
I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again
And past your door, I guess you don't live there anymore
It's years since you've been there
And now you've disappeared somewhere, like outer space
You've found some better place
And I miss you, yeah
And I miss you
You found some better place
And I miss you (like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, yeah (like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, and I miss you
(Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, yeah (like the deserts miss the rain)
The deserts miss the rain
(Like the deserts miss the rain)
Like the deserts miss the rain
(Like the deserts miss the rain)
And I miss you, yeah (like the deserts miss the rain)

https://youtu.be/jL0sEvJTtBM

TAKE ME BACK TO CHICAGO

Take me back to Chicago
And lay my soul to rest
Where my life was free and easy
Remember me at my best
Take me back to Chicago
Where my music was all I had
I tried to be good as I could
And sometimes that made me sad
Take me back to Chicago, to Chicago
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
To Chicago
I still dream of the lake of peacefulness
The warm summer breeze
'Cause my life was so much simpler then
Street corners and tastee freeze
Take me back to Chicago
'Cause hustlin's not my style
LA was just a bit too hard
I wish I could be a child
Livin' back in Chicago, in Chicago
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
To Chicago, to Chicago (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me, I wanna go)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back, take me)
Take me back (take me back)

Yesterday - The Beatles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrgmdOz227I

The Brothers Four "Try To Remember" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FdV9QgYME

"Sunrise Sunset" Fiddler On The Roof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLEBAQLZ3Q

A couple of others I thought of...mxtmind mentioned "Night Moves" by Bob Seger and I thought of "Like A Rock":
https://youtu.be/fMIJuuk1SFs

Also, "AM Radio" by Everclear: https://youtu.be/hjg39XRkjVc