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{{quote|"Those days are gone forever, I should just let them go,
But I can see you, your brown skin shining in the sun,
You got the top pulled down and radio on..."|Don Henley, "The Boys of Summer"}}
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* Keith Anderson, "Every Time I Hear Your Name"
* At the end of "Me and Bobby McGee", popularized by Janis Joplin, it reveals that Bobby is gone and the rest of the song was all memories:
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He's looking for that home and I hope he finds it... }}
* Eric Church - "Springsteen"
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* Ingrid Michaelson - "The Hat"
* Minus The Bear - "Let's Play Guitar In A Five Guitar Band":
{{quote|
Just having sex and listening to jazz
And that was the life }}
* The Shins - "Pink Bullets"
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* [[Barbra Streisand]] - "The Way We Were"
* The standard "These Foolish Things" is a canonical example - its writer called it a 'catalogue song'. Sample lyrics:
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And the scent of roses,
The waiters whistling
As the last bar closes,
The song that Crosby sings,
These foolish things
Remind me of you. }}
** Along the same line, "Always Something There to Remind Me", best known today for the 80s synthpop version by Naked Eyes.
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== Rock ==
* [[Bryan Adams]] - the second verse of "Summer of '69":
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You told me that you'd wait forever,
Oh and when you held my hand,
I knew that it was now or never,
Those were the best days of my life. }}
* [[Dashboard Confessional]] - "Hands Down"
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== Soft Rock ==
* [[Celine Dion]] - "I Remember L.A.":
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Seems a lifetime ago,
We were stars on Sunset Boulevard,
What a movie we made. }}
** Also "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" straddles the line between this and [[Love Will Lead You Back]]
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