Songs about domesticity, settling down, middle age, family life

Michelle Shocked's "When I Grow Up", about settling down with "me, my old man, and 120 babies."

Nanko - Lucky You

When you reach home, you’re greeted with hugs and kisses
By your wife and your three lovely kids
Just to see your dinner on the table
Ain’t got nothing to worry about, you got your cable
Still got a young one coming up in the cradle
Damn, man, your life must be so stable
As for me, I’m unable, disabled, I’m like a fable

I'm not the cat I used to be
I got a kid, I'm thirty-three

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7rWf4tH-jE

If you learn to drive
I can use the train and the bus
When you're mobile, we'll go
Take my toys and your cat with us
We'll leave the violence
We'll have something to do
With a couch-bed in the front room
For when we fall out, or when our friends come through

It's painting a kitchen that's keeping me going
And we've already named the seeds I'll be sowing

And when they've grown up
That's hoping that I don't shoot blanks
Could we move right up north
Find a house near the shores and the banks?
With a big fuckoff telly
A brand new stereo system
We'll meet old friends at funerals
And pretend that we've missed them

And if they were here
They'd say it was shocking
To find we've already named the dog we'll be walking

It's choosing a mattress that's keeping me going
And we've already named the seeds I'll be sowing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PEMP-nIY1U

What would you say if I offered this all up
To move, like a wreck, to the Neuk?
With a room for your art, and a room for my tunes?
And a promise we both kept never to leave?

Just say the word...

You can't manufacture love
Build a flutter out of paper
Hoodwink my heart
Sure you wouldn't know where to start

So I
I can say without fear
Just catch my eye in a certain way
And we'll be out of here

Just say the word...

Pulp's Babies isn't right for this. Maybe Disco 2000

not sure i'd say this is about the happy side of domesticity but i love this song so I can't help posting it.

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - I Eat Dinner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2x9uZVPek

Richard Shindell's song "A Summer Wind, a Cotton Dress" hits me pretty hard. It's the only relatable infidelity song I know of.

The kids are fine
They're six and nine
I think you'd probably like my wife
But the kitchen light
Seems much too bright
For what I find myself thinking tonight

"Don't Marry Her" has a reference to the sun shining on San Francisco Bay which always reminded me of the following story, but I've never come across this usage anywhere else:

In the late 1980s, Pickett recalled how he came by it: “Noreen Woods from Atlantic Records, she called me that one day because back in that time, the secretaries were wearing these miniskirts. One of these girls was leaning over the desk. On a clear day, you could see the San Francisco Bay. So I went and pinched her. Noreen saw it: she said, ‘My, my, you are so Wicked.’ Jerry Wexler ran out of his office. ‘That’s it baby, that’s it, that’s the name of his next album, baby. The Wicked Pickett, that’s it, put it down.’

Fletcher, Tony. In the Midnight Hour (p. 96). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.

Vampire Weekend, "Stranger" feels nicely domestic - "Another night indoors, another sign of life, wobbling up through the floor."

Ray Davies - Quiet Life (from the movie Absolute Beginners)

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.