James Taylor - Our Town

James Taylor - Our Town - Oldies But Goodies - Songs of the 60's & 70s

[NVFlyer]

This is why everyone should take a drive across the USA, from one coast to the other, without using the Interstate. I've done it a few times.... wonderful way to see the country.

[borisdoncev]

This song will always be sad because time will never go back and we all miss the days from our childhood. This song also brings back so many memories

[DillonMurway]

5 year old me: doesn't mind the song
22 year old me: song hits like a ton of bricks.

[dadenny]

I rode my motorcycle on Route 66 from Ok. City to the Pier (End of the Trail) in Santa Monica. This song is a living tribute to a way of life lost forever. A true sadness.
DD

[railwaystationmaster]

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, captured within the sadness of distant broken dreams is a song so tender as the voice that screams, why why why .

[jasonparker]

This song isn't old but it is nostalgic.

[DavidRay_]

I find it impossible to not like this song.

[TraumaBow]

Its a story of a time that went by and is now forgotten. Main Street America. Life was a much simpler time and people honestly worked for what they had.

[robertharrison]

Gone forever, My town Myrtle Beach, SC. Empty lots where something wonderful was. The past erased except in our minds. Darkness where their was light. Goodbye Pavilion good heritage. My town, our town gone forever!

[Michelangelo]

What a great song!  And this video compliments it so well.  Kudos to Oldies But Goodies.

[austinknight]

This song needs to be played in city/town

[mdasanu]

The fact of everyone. Amazing true lyrics which take back each an everyone to their memory lanes of their first love, the Town where they grew, played n fought with friends, had a first crush. NOSTALGIA at its best.... :-*

[NevilleBeneke]

Love these types of songs

This is partly why I watch old Disney movies like brother bear, toy story, cars - and so on

Have u guys listened to Phil Collins

[joeythetruckguy]

At 3:15 it show MY hometown of Dickson TN. Love the song and the movie.

[lizdoyle]

ONE OF FINEST SONGS EVER WRITTEN YEH ITS THAT GOOD🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
RANDY NEWMAN🌟🌟🌟🌟
JAMESTAYLOR🌟 YOU BELIEVE EVERY WORD
SONG IS ABOUT EVERYONES TOWN OR CITY OR WORLD☎️📻📺💰🏠🚔🚗🚒🚑⛽🚜🚛5

[franciscodelarosa]

As i'm listening to this. This also is reminding me of sears kmart toys r us and circuit city that closed for ever.

"What happened?"
"The town got bypassed just to save ten minutes of driving"

[eeboy]

What a gorgeous song. Some sad observations of the way the world changes……

[ethancurtsinger]

Lyrics:
Long ago, but not so very long ago
The world was different, oh yes it was
You settled down and you built a town and made it live
And you watched it grow, it was your town

Time goes by, time brings changes, you change too
Nothing comes that you can’t handle, so on you go
You never see it coming when the world caves in on you
On your town, there’s nothing you can do

Main street isn’t main street anymore
Lights don’t shine as brightly as they shone before
Tell the truth, lights don’t shine at all
In our town

Sun comes up each morning, just like it’s always done
Get up, go to work, start the day
You open up for business that’s never gonna come
As the world rolls by a million miles away

Main street isn’t main street anymore
No one seems to need us like they did before
It’s hard to find a reason left to stay
But it’s our town, love it anyway
Come what may, it’s our town

[NickSilcox]

i still remember walking into circuit city like it was yesterday