7 Songs About Childhood Memories
Over the years as we grow up, we build a bunch of memories and when so many years have passed we go back to those memories from time to time. Nostalgia about our childhood can bring comfort, meaning and even inspiration. Below is a list of songs about childhood memories:
1. Thomas Rhett – Sixteen
This is the third song from the album Life Changes. It generally talks about looking back on your younger years and wishing you could go back to those times and great memories.
In an interview with Thomas Rhett had this to say about the song: “As a kid, you can’t wait to grow up and reach that next milestone, but when you’re older, you look back and wish you could just be 16, or 18 or 21 again.”
2. Ed Sheeran – Castle On The Hill
This is a pop song where Ed pays homage to his upbringing in the English countryside town of Framlingham, Suffolk. He wrote it in mid-2015 and shot the music video in Suffolk. He cast a group of friends from his high school and used the kids from his high school as extras.
Ed sings and reminisces about things that happened when he was a kid. He starts out when he was six years old when he broke his leg. He mentions some things that happened when he was a teenager such as smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, getting drunk and having his first kiss.
3. Taylor Swift – Mary’s Song
The track was inspired by Taylor Swift’s next-door neighbors, an old couple that has known each other since they were kids. Speaking to Fanpop, Taylor had this to say about the track, “I wrote this song about a couple who lived next door to us. They’d been married forever and they came over one night for dinner and were just so cute. They were talking about how they fell in love and got married, and how they met when they were just little kids.”
4. Twenty-One Pilots – Stressed Out
The song is generally about a wish to regain the innocence and carefree nature of childhood before insecurities existed. The music video features Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph riding big wheels and hanging out in their childhood bedrooms. This suggests a state of crippling nostalgia.
Tyler wishes he could return to a time when there was no stress or worries. As grown-ups they have been wired to just work, make money, sleep and repeat.
5. Miranda Lambert – The House That Built Me
Miranda reflects on the home she grew up in and how it helped shape her into the person she is today. Despite someone already living in the house, she went ahead to explore different sections of the house and share what she experienced at different points.
Miranda expected that an experience like this might be cathartic and help heal her old wounds.
6. Alan Jackson – Drive
Alan Jackson starts out by talking about his dad’s red boat that he had bought second-hand from a dealer in Atlanta. They rode it for years till the transom got rotten. His dad would sometimes let him drive it.
In the second verse, he sings about the Ford truck his father bought from his uncle. He bought it when the engine was smoking and went ahead to repair it. Together they would haul loads and dump trash off of Thigpen Road.
7. Taylor Swift – The Best Day
The song is about her mother Andrea Swift and the good effects her mother had on her growing up. In an interview, Taylor Swift had this to say about her mom: She would just take me on these adventures and we would drive around and go to towns we’d never seen before. Those adventures and those days of just running away from my problems — you’re not supposed to run away from your problems, but when you’re 13 and your friends won’t talk to you and they move when you sit down at the lunch table, and your mom lets you run from those problems, I think it’s a good thing…my mom was my escape in a lot of ways.