Nostalgia
The song looks back longingly at the past, childhood, or lost experiences
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Songs(37 of 40)
P.S. I Love You
Remember
Misery
Remember
All My Loving
Remember
If I Fell
Looks back on past love
Things We Said Today
McCartney's 'future nostalgia' - remembering the present
Every Little Thing
Recalls first time meeting her
I'll Follow the Sun
Anticipates future regret of being missed
Yes It Is
Memories of past lover
Help!
Yearns for self-assured younger self
I've Just Seen a Face
'Had it been another day'
The Night Before
Yearning for previous night
I Need You
Remember
Yesterday
Longing for an idealized past
In My Life
Looking back on places, friends, lovers
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Once
We Can Work It Out
Once
She Said She Said
Retreat to boyhood as escape
Strawberry Fields Forever
Childhood Liverpool setting
Penny Lane
Liverpool childhood memories
Getting Better
Looks back on school, anger, cruelty
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Looking back twenty years
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Wistful Victorian-era pageantry
She's Leaving Home
Parents look back on sacrifices
When I'm Sixty-Four
Edwardian leisure imagery
Your Mother Should Know
Pre-rock pop revived for a new audience
Hey Jude
Remember
Honey Pie
Homage to 1920s pop era
Long, Long, Long
Looking back on lost-then-found beloved
Get Back
Once
Golden Slumbers
Longing for a vanished way home
Two of Us
Memories longer than the road ahead
One After 909
Once
The Long and Winding Road
'A long, long time ago'
I've Got a Feeling
'Everybody had a good year'
Free as a Bird
'The life that we once knew'
Real Love
Looking back on 'forgotten dreams'
Now and Then
Looking back with longing
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