Hi, I'm looking for songs with retrospective lyrics about days gone by, remembering own youth or childhood and songs about passage of time, growing old, etc... They don't have to be metal songs, songs from all genres are appreciated. Some examples I can give are these songs:

- Death: Symbolic
- Bob Seger: Against the Wind
- Allman Brothers Band: Old Before My Time
- Bryan Adams: Summer of '69

Thanks!

Judas Priest - Victim of Changes is sort of this, from the point of view of an alcoholic.

Some that came to mind, all but one are non metal. Hopefully they fit the bill.

Kid Rock - I Wanna Go Back, All Summer Long, First Kiss
Angels & Airwaves - Rite of Spring
Nickelback - Photograph
Kreator - Everlasting Flame
Bruce Dickinson - Born in '58
Miranda Lambert - Automatic
Bon Jovi - Just Older, When We Were Beautiful
Meat Loaf - Paradise By the Dashboard Light, Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are

Some of these may appeal to you.

Thank you guys!
I know some of those songs, but a lot of them I haven't heard until now. Keep 'em coming!

Iron Maiden-Wasted Years

Stratovarius - Years Go By
Stratovarius - Comming Home
Stratovarius - Father Time
Stratovarius - Season of Change
Stratovarius - Forever

well, that's enough of Stratovarius, lemme rec something else:

B. Dickinson - Change Of Heart
In Flames - Come Clarity
Crematory - Tears Of Time
Lake Of Tears - Headstones
Amorphis - Summer's End

The most obvious:

Mercyful Fate - Time

One beauty of a song:
Gamma Ray - 18 Years

Gamma Ray - As Time Goes By
Actually, this is not about time going by But it's a magnificent song from an extremely underrated album (imo anyway) and the finale is majestic with Scheepers soaring. Also, Uli Kusch is awesome.

Halford reminiscing:
Halford - Made in Hell

Megadeth's "discography/biography":
Megadeth - Victory

Blood of the Kings by Manowar is the same concept but not in a looking back way like Megadeth.

Toxik - There Stood the Fence
Exactly what you requested. The "ballad" of Think This. It's very nice.

Revelation's "Lost Innocence" is about, well, exactly that: the loss of innocence, and growing up too soon.
https://youtu.be/S9xEYF8CzKw

https://themenzingers.bandcamp.com/album/hello-exile

indie melancholic rock. This album is about getting old and losing sight of friends:


driving down 191, theres an old memory of someone / as a little white cross just popping out from the bend / I was getting fucked up with a high school friend / wondering where all the good times went /

oh, hello exile / now I imagined her memory would fade in the void / she’d only reappear every now and again / i’d smile at the thought of us / go back to my day / but that was purely wishful thinking / oh, hello exile.

Probably you alrready heard A change of Seasons by Dream theater, a true masterpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZKrwJzGg0k

Mei from Echolyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HA3sbrW1Ow


This Mortal Coil from Redemption, another masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... F9F1F0V9Uy