Lyle Lovett, "Pontiac":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il81IjQQ3ag
I park my PontiacDown the hill out in backLate every afternoonWith a Coke and a cigaretteAnd all of the neighbors thereThey see a nice old man
And the girl there across the streetShe sits on her front porch swingShe never realizedBut I told her with my eyesHow back in the Second WarI killed 20 German boysWith my own bare hands
And the woman inside my houseShe won't stop talkingShe never says a thingShe just keeps talkingAnd I might just leave her stillAfter the sun goes down
And I smoke this cigarette
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
the Who, "Love Ain't For Keeping"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Always thought “Domestica” would be a great title for a Middle Aged indie rock band whose members are settling down
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
album title that is
― calstars, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Greg Phillinganes - Lazy Nina
― Stupor Fly, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Billy Joel - Famous Last Words
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Neil Young "Country Home"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
Paul Simon has more than the one mentioned in the original post. Some great bits in the Obvious Child, for example:
We had a lot of funWe had a lot of moneyWe had a little son and we thought we'd call him SonnySonny gets married and moves awaySonny has a baby and bills to paySonny gets sunnierDay by day by day by day
a bit later in the song, Sonny's going through his own mid-life reflection:
Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himselfHow it's strange that some rooms are like cagesSonny's yearbook from high schoolIs down from the shelfAnd he idly thumbs through the pagesSome have diedSome have fled from themselvesOr struggled from here to get thereSonny wanders beyond his interior wallsRuns his hand through his thinning brown hair
― Valentijn, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Harry Chapin - Cats in the CradleHarry Nilsson - Best FriendRon Sexsmith - Michael and his Dad (rips my guts out every listen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ISUaWxooM
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
Tracey Thorn's "Hormones" has a nice contrast of her aging chemistry vs her daughter's youth.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
feel like Billy Joel and Paul Simon are pretty inherently domestic
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
ctrl-f "this must be the place" 0/0
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
Peter Hammill, "Autumn":
Now we're left with an empty home,from our nest all the birds have flown for foreign skies.We're discarded, of no further use,though we gave our kids all our youth and all our lives -we really tried. Now there's only my wife and me;we used to have a family - now that's goneand only memories linger on...it all seems very wrong to me.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
"The End of the Rainbow" by Richard and Linda Thompson is the most devastatingly sad example I can think of.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
and there was i hoping that this thread would be about the good side of domesticity and the contentment of settling down …
― mark e, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
wait has no one mentioned "OUR HOUSE"?!!?!?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
that's the quintessence of this type of song imola la lalala la la
Lambchop. I want to say The Daily Growl particularly but most of Is A Woman, really.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer LawnsPink Floyd - Time
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
wait has no one mentioned "OUR HOUSE"?!!?!?― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera),
original post.
― mark e, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
oh whoopssorry!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
:)it was my first thought as well, so was pissed off that OP had already hit that spot.that said, i am sure that Madness will have done others, just that i am not in that space at the moment.
― mark e, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
Squeeze - She Doesn't have to ShaveSqueeze - Can of Worms
― enochroot, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Shangri-La, The KinksYou and Me, Randy NewmanThe Folks Who Live on the Hill, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone et al (written by Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein)
― Josefa, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
Feel like there must be more Kinks songs, Ray always felt like such an adult songwriter even at a young age
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
xp to self oops that Randy Newman song is actually called Love Story
― Josefa, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
xp to the list in the original post:"shop vac" is such an awesome call.
Maybe if you forget to hide the keysI'll take a ride to Applebee'sI'll come home drunk on daiquirisand throw up on the neighbor's lawn
― enochroot, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
Which made me think of another one... Depreston by Courtney Barnett:
You said we should look out furtherI guess it wouldn't hurt usWe don’t have to be around all these coffee shopsNow we've got that percolatorNever made a latte greater.I’m saving 23 dollars a week
Now we've got that percolatorNever made a latte greater.I’m saving 23 dollars a week
― enochroot, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
Darling Lorraine - Paul SimonAnd Settlin' Down - Poco
― Bloody Snail, Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
In a couple of years they have built a home sweet home,With a couple of kids running in the yard,Of Desmond and Molly Jones- Beatles "Obladi-Oblada"
― o. nate, Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
Hiss Golden Messenger - "Mahogany Dread"
"Girl of mine with silver in your hairI still want you.It's getting hard to be easy now.A couple of kidsMahogany dreadBut happy days are still ahead."
― daily growing, Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
Lots of country songs
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
I wanna get married.Yes, I need a spouse.I want a nice Leave-It-To-Beaver-ishgolden retriever and a little white house.
I wanna get married.I need to cook meals.I wanna pack you cute little lunchesfor my Brady bunchesthen read Danielle Steele.- Nellie McKay "I Wanna Get Married"
― o. nate, Thursday, 25 October 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
More Randy Newman: "Feels Like Home"
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
I also have this daydream of proposing marriage by taking my gal for a drive down a road where I've laid out a succession of signs with Leonard Cohen lyrics:
Baby let's get married We've been alone too long
Let's be alone togetherLet's see if we're that strong
Let's do something crazySomething absolutely wrong
While we're waiting for the miracle to come
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link
― Alba, Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
another one about the unattainable dream of settling down
gerry rafferty - "baker street"
― macropuente (map), Thursday, 25 October 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
Me and My Husband - Mitski
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 25 October 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
not a heartwarming story but Peter Gabriel's Home Sweet Home
― orifex, Thursday, 25 October 2018 05:51 (five years ago) link
sizeable chunks of the faun fables catalog
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 08:09 (five years ago) link
oh and wots... uh the deal by pink floyd
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
Skyhooks: "Balwyn Calling" and "All My Friends Are Getting Married"
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
Chuck Berry "You Never Can Tell", obv.
― fetter, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link
Also, most of Adem's "Homesongs" album. And John Martyn's "Sunday's Child"
― fetter, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
always found the deployment of this line from blanche blanche blanche's uncrazy striking:
"I just want to take care of my wife and play basketball"
even before the pause and addition of "and get hit by a car"
― ogmor, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
Let's Move to the Country - Smog:
Let's move to the countryJust you and me
My travels are overMy travels are through
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:33 (five years ago) link
How have Pet Shop Boys not come up yet?
― imago, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:44 (five years ago) link
"climbing trees" by bauer, can't believe nobody has mentioned this one already
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
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Yesterday I was ambushed by unexpected emotion listening to George Jones and Tammy Wynette's "Two Story House" for the first time. What a sad song.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
Last Time I Saw Richard: "Richard got married to a figure skater / and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator."
― (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Vampire Weekend, "Stranger" feels nicely domestic - "Another night indoors, another sign of life, wobbling up through the floor."
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
Ray Davies - Quiet Life (from the movie Absolute Beginners)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 14 January 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
As someone mentions above, it would take a while to list all the Davies songs on this theme, but The Kinks Present a Soap Opera is an entire album about it.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link