In Al Stewart’s 1978 song “Time Passages,” he uses the lyrics to document an individual’s journey in life and the changes that we will experience, whether we want to or not. The second verse of the song is:

“Well I’m not the kind to live in the past
The years run too short and the days
too fast
The things you lean on are the things
that don’t last
Well it’s just now and then my line gets
cast into these
Time passages
There’s something back here that you
left behind
Oh time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home
tonight.”