As a kid, I enjoyed the song, because of how peaceful the song is. But when I became older, I decided to watch this movie again. When I got to this part, i literally started to cry, because I understood the lyrics.
I get it now. I watched it when I was 4 and 5 and well throughout my childhood. Now I'm a 16-year-old high school sophomore, and I just cannot appreciate this movie (and James Tayor's song,) enough. And this song is just so eye-watering and heart-rocking, it's filled with so much nostalgia and melancholy. I'm a meh kind-of-guy; Most things in this world are meh to me. But things like this song that can pierce through into my heart, they just make me want to cry. Why does the world spin so fast? Why do we have to grow up so soon? I'm still a teenage[r], yet I'm asking the questions my grandmother would ask. God have mercy...
Vincent Reyes Times are changing for everyone around you and maybe yourself. Make the best of it as long as you surround yourself with people who love and understand you. Don’t miss the future don’t stay in the past. Nothing lasts forever only memories do
Been a long time since I read the production notes. I think that gave the story the nostalgia boost it needed. Plus it adds to the franchise's culturally resonant theme of looking to the past to achieve what you want. Something that was missing in Cars 2 but I'm glad they brought it back for Cars 3.
If Radiator Springs is actually Peach Springs, Arizona, then I can guarantee you that the Interstate saves you a whole lot more than ten minutes (about two hours) of driving. But, hey, I know you are quoting the movie, and I am glad that so many persons like Cars. I just wanted to share a little bit of my experience while travelling.
It's sad because that highway broke history like if you think about it if that wasn't built route 66 wouldn't be what it is today so it kinda does matter that that highway was built but it doesn't aswell
This song just kills me listening to it. I'm from a small town in the middle of the Kansas prairie. My great-great grandfather founded it in the 1800's and it's never had more than 1000 people living there, but it was the best little town in the world. Don't really know what exactly changed, but for the past few years it's been slowly falling apart. Can't hardly go home anymore without wanting to cry as I drive down Main Street. I hope something changes before there's nothing left but memories.
I know how you feel.... I could barely watch cars because it reminds me so much of what happened to my town..... It right next to a big highway and since it was faster than the road going through our town they took us off the maps... Even before that there were only fifty people. People went out of business so now there's only ten of us.... The town used to be so pretty with neon lighting and beautiful music playing. There was a auto body shop, a store, clothes store and gas station. Now there's only a store and gas station.... :(
The good people of my Dad's home town, Mauck Chunk, PA lost their beloved town & culture to tourist community. Pour old Mauck Chunk lost her charm & became nothing but a tourist trap.
This song hits hard when you grow older and this song also describes the changing of life and environment. Back then everybody was just living a simple life, everybody knows how to make friends and everybody values life and its importance. Nowadays, you can barely find something like that.
This is even sadder when you see the film reel of Radiator Springs slowly and agonizingly dying because of the interstate highway going passing by This for me doesn’t hit as hard because my town is on one of only two major highways that goes one end of Ontario to the other and luckily it’s financially impossible to make a four lane highway that bypasses all the small towns and villages between Thunder Bay and Toronto
17 years ago this movie came out and I obsessed over it! Realizing the meaning of this song makes me miss the time that everything I love was brand new, and that the world was brighter. As gray gradually enters my vision, I begin to shed tears for the happiness I lost, the memories that I can't relive, and the place I called home I can never return to. I miss the kid I was back then. I want to give my future kids memories such as this and shed tears, not in misery, but in happiness, as they begin seeing what I once did, assuring me that I did right by them as a parents. This was part of the earliest soundtrack to my life and makes me tear up to this day and even as I write this. I want nothing more than to restore happiness to all who share this goal of preserving the happiest of memories for those yet to come, no matter what means I use. For those who don't understand the memories that are triggered, once you get to be an adult, you will start seeing it and begin putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful, precious, timeless memories and thoughts with all of us here, so fortunate to see them. They are so incredibly poignant. I cry, now with sadness and joy. Bless your dear heart.Thank you again so much for sharing. 🕊 Sbwell
I grew up in a small midwestern town in Michigan. This song really reflects on how the changing times leaves small towns behind. We ended up moving to the Detroit area because that’s exactly what happened. All the jobs left and there was no way to make a living anymore. But I tell ya nothing compares to small town America! Such a great childhood I had growing up in a place where everyone knows each other! This song will always have a special meaning in my life! 😌
This song is such a testament to the differences in the way life is lived today versus years ago. Everyone today is in such a rush to get to where they want to be, people and business pressure us to always move faster, if you go to slow, your old, washed up, you need to be passed by. So sad. If you go to fast you miss things along the way, you bypass so much you could have seen and things so beautiful they make your heart sing. I also cry everytime I hear this song, it's such a testament to life
"They quit on me. When I finally got put together, I went back expecting a big welcome. And you all know what they said? 'You're history.' Moved right on to the next rookie standing in line. There was a lot left in me. I never got a chance to show 'em. I keep that to remind me never to go back. I just never expected that that world would...would find me here. - Doc Hudson
This song is literally singing the root of my depression. And i’ve heard it so many times as a kid watching Cars but never knew how real it would be 15? 16? Years later. Damn.
Watched this as a kid happen to my town long before Cars tm. It was growing bigger but everything I liked was getting bought out and turned into a parking lot. Looked at it on Google maps few months ago 20 years after leaving it and it's unrecognizable. Three city's share the same spot they got smaller in population but bigger in industry. Some reason I don't get how that works.
Actually, it was real when they made the movie. _Our Town_ wasn't written _for_ the movie, but it might as well have been. The combination is as powerful as any movie sequence ever produced. Tom Cruise, eat your heart out...
I see what you mean Charles. I just had began starting watching Disney Channel again after several years since America said goodbye to Hannah Montana which I regret not being part of the end. It was all thanks to Tangled the Series. Now I'm waiting for Hotel Transylvania and Raven's Home this summer. Thinking about it this past week has been depressed me a bit. Especially with times changing right before your eyes.
I know what you mean. Being 13 felt like being a teen was going to be a bit of a struggle. But in the end, it would be all right. The world may not be perfect but it felt like a wonderful place back then.
@B3NRG I watched this movie all the time as a kid, I collected a tone of the toys, and this was the first soundtrack I ever listened to! I also have autism and this was part of my life for about 2 years! Looking back on the music in this movie, listening to this made me cry and write my comment that's got 60 likes. Another couple were Find Yourself and Behind the clouds! Both by my favorite artist of all time (because of this movie), Brad Paisley. I was 14 when Find Yourself hit me like it should've, and Behind the clouds just makes me think of all the struggles I endured throughout my childhood, adolescence, and some that I got through now as an adult. My dad and I first bonded over listening to Brad Paisley as I began listening to more of his material, and he helped me get through change and what it meant to be a man. He helped me obtain Eagle Scout and helped me become the man I am today. Hope you continue to inspire him as he goes through his routine-based, detail heavy, and hyper-focused life!
There are so many memories in this song, it's not only about a thing, but about so many things from all over the world, and it's beautifully uttered by the lyrics of this song. I love such a song!
I went back to my hometown a few years ago to visit. We were listening to the Cars soundtrack on the road trip with our kids. My "town" had changed so much and it just crushed me to the core. It's true what they say, you can never "go back". Those were great years growing up, and I'm just thankful to have experienced them with the people I loved. It's hard sometimes, but we just have to keep moving on.
If songs like this don't move you and make you appreciate life and the things that you do have and not what you don't have, then you'll never know what it is to truely live life.
Really touching song! Reminds me off the time when I was a kid, the place where I grew up! Brings back great memories of how easy life was at that age. GREAT SONG!
Seems thats the way with all Route 66 towns as much as I hate to say it I have to admit...Route 66 is dyin the mother road of America will probably be gone by the time I have kids I'm only 19 but in 19 years of livin Route 66 has gotten worsr n worse every day
This song makes me cry. To me it represents how so much has changed in my life, from when I was a little kid to now. How everything has slowly come apart and it seems I am needed just a little less every day.
I remember how I'd listen to this song when I went through depression in my early teens. It just seemed so fitting at the time for what I was feeling and going through. Sometimes things happen, and there's just nothing you can do....
Any time somebody says Cars is a bad movie, I show them the scene with this song. It very clearly outlines the true purpose of the movie, which was to be a reflection on how the world has changed and how nobody takes time to slow down and enjoy small town life. Coupled with Paul Newman's fantastic performance, this had me in tears.
I was 7 when Cars was released and I don’t remember much from the song, but it seemed sad due to the beat and rhythm of the song’s instruments and the tone of voice James Taylor is using. Now I’m 23 and when I listened to this song again a couple years ago, it felt like a painful heartbreak of a couple going their own separate ways because they, just like the town, lost their “zing”, or spark. Even writing this now is starting to make my eyes well up.
This happened to a lot of towns once the interstate system was built too. In my case my little town went down when I-10 was built, essentially bypassing it. My town was a hot spot since it laid almost exactly between Houston and Beaumont along US Highway 90. Highway 90 WAS the interstate before I-10.
Carmina López It's really sad but sooo beautiful. I loved the lyrics , it' s inside my heart now. And it'll still here forever. Ps - I love small towns.
The sad part about this song is that disney channel and pixar was our radiator springs, we all came here before as kids and now we've grown up and forgotten about it but after disney plus we've all returned
Tbh tho the movies nowadays aren’t as good as the old gems of the 2000s like this, toy story, monsters inc, even films like Rio and Ice age were so amazing and comparing to now it’s hard to find an even comparison
Every time I hear a song with a similar message, I just start to think about the time when I was a little kid (I am 19, so it was not too long ago, but I am talking about before elementary mostly). My father line grandparents lived in an apartment in a block of flats that had an easily accessable, but still somewhat fences off square. I used to play there a lot. Just myself or with my half-sister, with my cousin, and later with my second one too. Since I was little I don't have that many memories, but I know well enough just how much that place matterd to me. I learned how to ride a bike there, my Pa would always buy us sour yet sweet lollipops at the small store just outside and stuff. All of these little things just add up. The square, the apartment, the fun we had... And slowly it just all started to disappear. We grew bigger, spent less and less time there. My Pa died of cancer, a couple of years later my Ma followed, also by cancer. The apartment where at times the whole family had lunch together (like 15 people) got empty. Both from people, and from furniture. Later we sold the apartment. I didn't think much of it at that time, but now as I think back... It is always like this... Only when we think back... That is the only time it is precious and when it hurts... For quite a long time I haven't even thought about it. The square, the apartment, nothing. The messy basement where we kept our first bikes and only my Pa knew wich key is to be used on the 2 different doors feom the 5 keys... Nothing... And these kind of songs get me back to that place that isn't even far, 15 minutes of walking at a slow paste. Even the square changed. The slag based soccer field is now full of grass, one of the swings and it's supporting fences are taken, as well as the teeters and the slide. Even the sand pit's supporting stones were taken away... My childhood basically disappeared as I grew up, and I didn't even take notice of it since it just never crossed my mind... Time is an asshole... I will tell you this much, even tough I am only this young... Even I know this at this point...
When I was 5 years old I didn't really understand the meaning of this song, now I'm 25 years old, now I understand the meaning of this song, the meaning is quite sad 🥺❤️
I put this song on every time i take a drive. Down to the cemetery. Where my father is laid to rest. Every August. He had liver cancer. Yet he spent almost every moment he could with me and my sister. In so much pain. But wore a smile all the time. Rest In Peace, dad. Rest In Peace.
i don't know why, but i haven't seen cars in like 7 years, until my little brother watched it for the first time, and then i realised that the movie actually had a message... ...and i actually got a lil emotional while watching 😆🥺
Although I was extremely young when this movie came out I vaguely remember watching the scene with this song, thinking it was just a simple track with soft guitars, elegant pianos, majestic strings and singing. However when I grew older, I decided to rewatch Cars. And it was at that point that I actually listened to the lyrics. It genuinely brought a tear to my eye, the past is left behind, and everything changes right before your very eyes. Although I’m not from America, I know about the true tragic stories for tiny towns along Route 66 since Interstate 40 was constructed. All thanks to one movie, my vision for the past changed and altered significantly.
@@tommymasturbhandu902 It's from Cars. If you never seen it then you really didn't have a childhood. This movie yes I did hate as a kid but now that I'm 19 and watch it I understand why it's such a great movie and I can clearly understand the messages it brings now
The funny thing is, I always enjoyed hearing this song when I watched Cars. Then my uncle introduced me to James Taylor recently and I love his music. I watched Cars again and realized that this was him. What a beautiful song and a great singer.
Pixar, i love you for adding this song in to cars, its beutifull, nostalgic, just.........perfect. As I look back at the film and listen to the song al the time, im in literall tears, so BRILLIANT
When I was young, I just enjoyed the song. When I watched the film again, as a grown up, I realised the true meaning of the song. It has so much meaning, it hits so much deeper and harder. Damn, it definitely brought a tear to my eye.
Watched this in theaters when I was 6. Loved it, mostly just watching the cars drive back then. Hadn't seen it in years, watched it today again. I'm 22 now. I cried so hard.
This song really hits deep once you realize how grown have you got. All that was your home, your family, friends, changes, it feels like... *"What has been my life all along?"* And when you see how years have changed you, you want to go back, but that's something we can't do... we miss, we feel sad, but... that's part of our life, after all.
Well the time has come. This is my song this year as we prepair to leave New York. Never thought it would happen but politics destroyed little towns cities communities beyond repair. Im the last here and the rest are scattered all over the country. The words in the song "Nothing you can do" hits home to me. I see my little league field I played on, my son played on and My Daughter but all these memories will be left here. Family gone a few years ago. Friends leaving every year, now it's Us. Got to thank the Democrats that run N.Y., Long island for the $18k a year property taxes, home prices over $750k for 50' x 100' and a 1200 square ft. home, oh and the 42 billion in higher taxes to take care of illegals that they hide, feed, give drivers licenses too, homes and health care all that cost Us our homes, our towns our memories. We all say we need to do something but it's too late for some states.
Lived in this town a long time. Moved when I got married but came back because I wanted to give my kids the same great childhood I had. But now with my Daughter having one more year of high school and my son having 4 years to go, this town has changed. The new people have no small town values and don't care for even their next door neighbors. The old town has changed as much as I wish it would stay the same. But how do I leave My town to these bums. Friends moved away first. Family has moved now neighbors are leaving. I'm one of a few left. Anywhere else will feel lime an extended vacation and eventually I'll feel like it's time to go home. So many memories. Kids still have some friends here but that's it. Me and a few childhood friends all discussing when or where we all will end up. This song hits deep in my heart. My kids grew up here too.
Think about all those small towns in NV, AZ, UT, TX, CA that were bypassed when ISHS (InterState Highway System) was put in place. Imagine all those people living there since times of their grandparents, who lived off the trade with travellers. Imagine how they must have been feel like, their sadness, anger, resignation, pain, despair, sense of betrayal, being fooled; having to make a decision: to move out and find new place to live and make for living, probably in bigger cities, and thus leave the land where they were born and raised forever; or stay and see the town slowly collapse and go extinct.
@@mexxxcool865 no it's an exaggeration there's more than 54 people in Nevada and more than 1 person in Wyoming it's just they don't get a lot of visitors I suppose (minus Vegas) which is why they said that.
As I listen to this I just keep on thinking of the day I have to leave my home, my town, my city...... Where I live the colleges aren't really good so after I finish my high school I have to leave my city and state, right now I have 9 months left of school and I will be gone by next year and maybe I won't return here for the rest of my life except for the occasional visits to my parents........ I have been here for my entire life, the fact that soon the roads I knew, the houses I passed by while going to school, the ground where we used to play will be something of past is so sad......... But at the same time I am also excited because I would exploring the world so it's kind of a mixed feeling.
"Main street isnt main street anymore... Light dont shine as brightly.. as they shone before..... Tell the truth.. lights dont shine at all.. in our.. town" As a kid living in sweden, we watched the movie in swedish when i was younger which means that i didint listen to the lyrics at all, just enjoyed it. Nowadays i listen to the lyrics in a song to understand them and to get the feeling you know?
Every time I hear this song, I can't help but think of my hometown. And while I still pay a visit every now and then, I can only imagine how different it will be in 40-50 years from now, and it makes me wanna cry. I never had any friends, but I made a lot of memories in my hometown, most of which are now lost in the back of my brain while others are mostly negative, but the only reason I keep those memories, no matter how dramatic they were and are, it's because I want to remember my hometown. After my town will be gone, only a few of us will remember it ever existed
Man my favorite movie Disney Pixar's cars I loved it I watched it everyday as a kid an now I'm about to be 14 in 3 days an sadly I still watch it once a month
14 is still technically a kid, yes it is a teen but still a kid. you aren't technically an adult until you turn 18 also i am 22 and really enjoy this movie... i loved the hell out of it back in 2006 when i was 12
How could I have been so ignorant back then? I used to really relax to this song, even used it to go to sleep because seemed it nothing short of calm and relaxing. Now, I cannot listen to it without shedding tears.
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 changed 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, nothing you can do Main street isn't main street anymore Lights don't shine as brightly as they shone before To 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 a new 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
Have always loved Cars. And then...as life would have it, my daughter needed me to drive with her from San Diego to Atlanta. And part of the route we took was down Route 66. I immediately thought of this song and the Cars movie. A truly awesome experience to drive on Route 66 and drive thru the Heartland of America.
As a high school freshman living in a small town, I find this song way too relatable:It feels like time is flying way too quickly with each passing day. Sometimes I wish the world and all its people would slow down a little and just have time to breathe a little. These days everyone is in a mad scramble to reach the top of the food chain and they don't take the time to stop and smell the roses.....if that makes any sense. I'd give _anything_ to go back in time and relieve the best moments of my life, even for a moment, to just go back to that sense of familiarity and comfort that I felt back when I was younger and I didn't need to worry about things changing right before my eyes. Anyway, I'm sorry for wasting your time by writing this comment for you to read but I just needed to say something.....
No, it's okay) Furthermore, your experience is very interesting. You are right, time is passing, we grow older and start to notice things that we didn't notice before. Even cruel ones. You know, I hate the time I live on. And like you, want to relieve these cool moments of my life over and over again.) Cause the real matter of our life are emotions. Just emotions make our life brighter and full of different colors)
We are the many, we are the strong, we are Collinsville, Oklahoma. Est. May 26th, 1897. I sing this song to celebrate the founding of my hometown every year and it brings tears to my eyes that we’ve stayed standing for this long.
As a kid, I enjoyed the song, because of how peaceful the song is. But when I became older, I decided to watch this movie again. When I got to this part, i literally started to cry, because I understood the lyrics.
@Kende Csányi me too!
Ofc, it will definitely hit harder for you when you get older
Same
The Interstate highway system killed a lot of towns sadly
How very true , it’s only when you get older and reflect on your life .. the immense sad over comes you .. If Only 🥺
Cars is the movie you watch as a kid and never really get any of the messages and then you watch it as an adult and realize what everything meant.
TheTangyMango I haven’t watched it since I was 18.
I get it now. I watched it when I was 4 and 5 and well throughout my childhood. Now I'm a 16-year-old high school sophomore, and I just cannot appreciate this movie (and James Tayor's song,) enough. And this song is just so eye-watering and heart-rocking, it's filled with so much nostalgia and melancholy. I'm a meh kind-of-guy; Most things in this world are meh to me. But things like this song that can pierce through into my heart, they just make me want to cry.
Why does the world spin so fast? Why do we have to grow up so soon? I'm still a teenage[r], yet I'm asking the questions my grandmother would ask. God have mercy...
Vincent Reyes I was a sophomore ten years ago
@@manuelorozco7760 Have any advice?
Vincent Reyes Times are changing for everyone around you and maybe yourself. Make the best of it as long as you surround yourself with people who love and understand you. Don’t miss the future don’t stay in the past. Nothing lasts forever only memories do
Tells the story of countless Route 66 towns. Powerful song.
I once read an article about the numerous ghost towns of Route 66. It had pictures. My heart broke.
No way! I bet Pixar animators took some time to visit every one to get Radiator Springs down
They did exactly that prior to making the film. Radiator Springs was essentially a combination of a lot of highlights of many towns in the heyday.
Been a long time since I read the production notes. I think that gave the story the nostalgia boost it needed. Plus it adds to the franchise's culturally resonant theme of looking to the past to achieve what you want. Something that was missing in Cars 2 but I'm glad they brought it back for Cars 3.
Only Williams, Arizona
My childhood summarized in 4 minutes and 3 seconds. This will never be forgotten. #2000'sKids
Well i was born in 2004 sooo. Do i count as one?
@@Starvaze same dude
I cry list to this song now because it reminds me so much of my wonderful childhood.
I was born in 2003, so I definitely count as a 2000’s kid I guess.
@@Starvaze it depends on how you interpete it. You can be considered one for something like this
"What happened?"
"The town got bypassed just to save ten minutes of driving."
Douglas Roth copy cat
Sally- 2006
If Radiator Springs is actually Peach Springs, Arizona, then I can guarantee you that the Interstate saves you a whole lot more than ten minutes (about two hours) of driving. But, hey, I know you are quoting the movie, and I am glad that so many persons like Cars. I just wanted to share a little bit of my experience while travelling.
It's sad because that highway broke history like if you think about it if that wasn't built route 66 wouldn't be what it is today so it kinda does matter that that highway was built but it doesn't aswell
@@dannypipewrench533 yes
Pixar just knows how to spark those feels in ya, even for a movie like Cars, this scene brings me to tears :(
:'''(
in this comment has 66 likes ie route 66
Disney - remember the scene in 'Dumbo'? Heartbreaking.
Pixar is the master at doing this.
@@dimitrypittman143 That's 'Disney'
Ahh... Radiator Springs...
Yeah radiator springs.. shoooohhhh..
Outro br q bom💝❤
@@LucasFDAT tbm sou
Sdds
I wish my child hood😭
This song just kills me listening to it.
I'm from a small town in the middle of the Kansas prairie. My great-great grandfather founded it in the 1800's and it's never had more than 1000 people living there, but it was the best little town in the world.
Don't really know what exactly changed, but for the past few years it's been slowly falling apart. Can't hardly go home anymore without wanting to cry as I drive down Main Street. I hope something changes before there's nothing left but memories.
Andy Roy awwwn' :'/ - I'm so sorry.
No :( what's the name?
I know how you feel.... I could barely watch cars because it reminds me so much of what happened to my town..... It right next to a big highway and since it was faster than the road going through our town they took us off the maps... Even before that there were only fifty people. People went out of business so now there's only ten of us.... The town used to be so pretty with neon lighting and beautiful music playing. There was a auto body shop, a store, clothes store and gas station. Now there's only a store and gas station.... :(
+Andy. We lost our town to the Californication of the 1990's
The good people of my Dad's home town, Mauck Chunk, PA lost their beloved town & culture to tourist community. Pour old Mauck Chunk lost her charm & became nothing but a tourist trap.
This song hits hard when you grow older and this song also describes the changing of life and environment.
Back then everybody was just living a simple life, everybody knows how to make friends and everybody values life and its importance. Nowadays, you can barely find something like that.
So true.
Yes😢 yes it is
Yes so true i almost cry just listen this song because a lot thing change and make me think how time goes fast 😢
This is even sadder when you see the film reel of Radiator Springs slowly and agonizingly dying because of the interstate highway going passing by
This for me doesn’t hit as hard because my town is on one of only two major highways that goes one end of Ontario to the other and luckily it’s financially impossible to make a four lane highway that bypasses all the small towns and villages between Thunder Bay and Toronto
true.
17 years ago this movie came out and I obsessed over it!
Realizing the meaning of this song makes me miss the time that everything I love was brand new, and that the world was brighter.
As gray gradually enters my vision, I begin to shed tears for the happiness I lost, the memories that I can't relive, and the place I called home I can never return to.
I miss the kid I was back then. I want to give my future kids memories such as this and shed tears, not in misery, but in happiness, as they begin seeing what I once did, assuring me that I did right by them as a parents.
This was part of the earliest soundtrack to my life and makes me tear up to this day and even as I write this.
I want nothing more than to restore happiness to all who share this goal of preserving the happiest of memories for those yet to come, no matter what means I use.
For those who don't understand the memories that are triggered, once you get to be an adult, you will start seeing it and begin putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
Man i miss RUclips and summer nights of 2010-2013 i remember being 5 back then and i watched modded minecraft all day!
What a beautiful comment!
blessed gen z childhood fr
Damn man I felt everything you said. That was deep. It’s almost sad to watch the movie as an adult because times aren’t the same as a kid anymore :/
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful, precious, timeless memories and thoughts with all of us here, so fortunate to see them. They are so incredibly poignant. I cry, now with sadness and joy. Bless your dear heart.Thank you again so much for sharing.
🕊 Sbwell
" _It's kinda nice to slow down every once in a while.._ " - Lightning McQueen
"You Gotta Lot Of Stuff Kid" - Doc Hudson
"This grumpy old race car I know once told me something. It's just an empty cup." Lightning McQueen.
A song that truly makes you think of Home, wherever it is
true
Doc Hudson 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
He is dead😭
He is legend
Eterno Hudson horned
Saudades dele vejo essa música da volta de de chorar somos todos hundson 😭😭😭😭🙄😟😢😞😖
Aff que nostalgia😢😭
I grew up in a small midwestern town in Michigan. This song really reflects on how the changing times leaves small towns behind. We ended up moving to the Detroit area because that’s exactly what happened. All the jobs left and there was no way to make a living anymore. But I tell ya nothing compares to small town America! Such a great childhood I had growing up in a place where everyone knows each other! This song will always have a special meaning in my life! 😌
I'm from schoolcraft Michigan, same story
This song is such a testament to the differences in the way life is lived today versus years ago. Everyone today is in such a rush to get to where they want to be, people and business pressure us to always move faster, if you go to slow, your old, washed up, you need to be passed by. So sad. If you go to fast you miss things along the way, you bypass so much you could have seen and things so beautiful they make your heart sing. I also cry everytime I hear this song, it's such a testament to life
"They quit on me. When I finally got put together, I went back expecting a big welcome. And you all know what they said? 'You're history.' Moved right on to the next rookie standing in line. There was a lot left in me. I never got a chance to show 'em. I keep that to remind me never to go back. I just never expected that that world would...would find me here. - Doc Hudson
My favourite number is 51 :)
This song is literally singing the root of my depression. And i’ve heard it so many times as a kid watching Cars but never knew how real it would be 15? 16? Years later. Damn.
Watched this as a kid happen to my town long before Cars tm. It was growing bigger but everything I liked was getting bought out and turned into a parking lot. Looked at it on Google maps few months ago 20 years after leaving it and it's unrecognizable. Three city's share the same spot they got smaller in population but bigger in industry. Some reason I don't get how that works.
Actually, it was real when they made the movie. _Our Town_ wasn't written _for_ the movie, but it might as well have been. The combination is as powerful as any movie sequence ever produced. Tom Cruise, eat your heart out...
Cars! Oh the memories. None of these overdone films nowadays.
I see what you mean Charles. I just had began starting watching Disney Channel again after several years since America said goodbye to Hannah Montana which I regret not being part of the end. It was all thanks to Tangled the Series. Now I'm waiting for Hotel Transylvania and Raven's Home this summer. Thinking about it this past week has been depressed me a bit. Especially with times changing right before your eyes.
Nostalgia
15 years ago the greatest film ever made was released. Man I wish we could go back to 2006. Life was better then!
I know what you mean. Being 13 felt like being a teen was going to be a bit of a struggle. But in the end, it would be all right. The world may not be perfect but it felt like a wonderful place back then.
yep
I agree
Life was less complicated in the 20th century. September 11, 2001 changed everything. Whether it was better is debatable.
Yeah no doubt 2006 is one of my best year tho
I've watched Cars like a 1000 times with my son. He has autism. This song is our father- son song. Never gets old. :')
@B3NRG I watched this movie all the time as a kid, I collected a tone of the toys, and this was the first soundtrack I ever listened to! I also have autism and this was part of my life for about 2 years! Looking back on the music in this movie, listening to this made me cry and write my comment that's got 60 likes.
Another couple were Find Yourself and Behind the clouds! Both by my favorite artist of all time (because of this movie), Brad Paisley.
I was 14 when Find Yourself hit me like it should've, and Behind the clouds just makes me think of all the struggles I endured throughout my childhood, adolescence, and some that I got through now as an adult.
My dad and I first bonded over listening to Brad Paisley as I began listening to more of his material, and he helped me get through change and what it meant to be a man.
He helped me obtain Eagle Scout and helped me become the man I am today.
Hope you continue to inspire him as he goes through his routine-based, detail heavy, and hyper-focused life!
@@Spectrum_Country1028 Thank you for your sweet comment. You're a star too.
me to autism forever😆
Man, this is the MOST BEAUTIFUL song i've heard
There are so many memories in this song, it's not only about a thing, but about so many things from all over the world, and it's beautifully uttered by the lyrics of this song. I love such a song!
2019 and still touched my soul. This song is immortal 😢
Greetings from 2021
You have no idea
2021
Everything is mortal.
2022 now
2023 now
Cars didn't drive on it to make great time
They drove on it to have a great time
What happened to those days
@@elijahallen3318 the twin got bypassed just to save ten minutes of drive
@@coolsafraz *insert flashback here*
Stop, youre making me tear up
One of the very few quotes I actually follow.
Thanks for sharing. Sadly, many have forgotten what real song writing is all about.
I went back to my hometown a few years ago to visit. We were listening to the Cars soundtrack on the road trip with our kids. My "town" had changed so much and it just crushed me to the core. It's true what they say, you can never "go back". Those were great years growing up, and I'm just thankful to have experienced them with the people I loved. It's hard sometimes, but we just have to keep moving on.
If songs like this don't move you and make you appreciate life and the things that you do have and not what you don't have, then you'll never know what it is to truely live life.
I love this song. These were songs that had a soul
Huzzah!
songs that make me feel clean deep inside
Yeah, what people listen to today just sounds like garbage compared to this
@Game Plays 1230 Amen
Gosh, the line “as the world rolls by a million miles away” gets me every time!
the feeling of being left behind is the worst
"É bom desacelerar de vez em quando"
Radiator Springs nunca vou esquecer
E uma coisa pra vida inteira
@@DaviOliveira-rl1cq carrego isso comigo desde sempre
@FRENZINN - Music sim
Infância sempre na memória... ainda mais com está música linda.
Really touching song!
Reminds me off the time when I was a kid, the place where I grew up!
Brings back great memories of how easy life was at that age.
GREAT SONG!
I can't listen to this song without getting the chills with misting in my eyes. That is what a good song should do
This song never fails to make me cry
I still get goosebumbs every single time i listen to this absolute worldpiece of a song.
What Happened?
The town got bypassed just to save ten minutes of driving
:'(
1:10 😢
dude
why
Seems thats the way with all Route 66 towns as much as I hate to say it I have to admit...Route 66 is dyin the mother road of America will probably be gone by the time I have kids I'm only 19 but in 19 years of livin Route 66 has gotten worsr n worse every day
@@SkyGamer911 dude. Not. cool. at all. killing the vibe man
This song has brought me to tears just reminiscing my childhood. But now it's up to me to make tomorrow better than today.
Who's with me? 😊
Same here man
Same
I'm with you guys. Good luck for whatever you're doing. Ka-Chaw!
🖖
I am.
You have my sword!
Cars 1 was one of those movies that you had to watch as an adult to understand the concept of Radiator Springs.
It did hit very hard at me...
When this song plays this in the Movie Cars, I cry out loud, because it touches me.......
Same man
too :(
Jerrymy Reyes Me too. I love the movie" Cars" . It really touch my heart!
Me too 😥
Same.
This song makes me cry. To me it represents how so much has changed in my life, from when I was a little kid to now. How everything has slowly come apart and it seems I am needed just a little less every day.
I remember how I'd listen to this song when I went through depression in my early teens. It just seemed so fitting at the time for what I was feeling and going through. Sometimes things happen, and there's just nothing you can do....
You know what lion king says no when the world turns its back on you turn your back on the world
@@jericho7613 Yes. That’s very true. Still hurts, tho. We just gotta push thru the pain to the other side.
Disney PIXAR's Cars brought me here.
jeah me too
trackmaniamatt like me... This song have something... magic
same
+trackmaniamatt "cars" brought me here too!!!!!!!
+trackmaniamatt forever route 66
Any time somebody says Cars is a bad movie, I show them the scene with this song. It very clearly outlines the true purpose of the movie, which was to be a reflection on how the world has changed and how nobody takes time to slow down and enjoy small town life. Coupled with Paul Newman's fantastic performance, this had me in tears.
I was 7 when Cars was released and I don’t remember much from the song, but it seemed sad due to the beat and rhythm of the song’s instruments and the tone of voice James Taylor is using.
Now I’m 23 and when I listened to this song again a couple years ago, it felt like a painful heartbreak of a couple going their own separate ways because they, just like the town, lost their “zing”, or spark. Even writing this now is starting to make my eyes well up.
This happened to a lot of towns once the interstate system was built too. In my case my little town went down when I-10 was built, essentially bypassing it. My town was a hot spot since it laid almost exactly between Houston and Beaumont along US Highway 90. Highway 90 WAS the interstate before I-10.
that song is so sad but beutiful
Carmina López It's really sad but sooo beautiful. I loved the lyrics , it' s inside my heart now. And it'll still here forever. Ps - I love small towns.
The sad part about this song is that disney channel and pixar was our radiator springs, we all came here before as kids and now we've grown up and forgotten about it but after disney plus we've all returned
Tbh tho the movies nowadays aren’t as good as the old gems of the 2000s like this, toy story, monsters inc, even films like Rio and Ice age were so amazing and comparing to now it’s hard to find an even comparison
It’s not the same disney it use to be. It’s sad. My kids will only watch old disney.
❤❤❤ From Indonesia..Love the Song and thanks James Taylor..a very beautiful song ever..❤❤❤
Every time I hear a song with a similar message, I just start to think about the time when I was a little kid (I am 19, so it was not too long ago, but I am talking about before elementary mostly).
My father line grandparents lived in an apartment in a block of flats that had an easily accessable, but still somewhat fences off square. I used to play there a lot. Just myself or with my half-sister, with my cousin, and later with my second one too. Since I was little I don't have that many memories, but I know well enough just how much that place matterd to me. I learned how to ride a bike there, my Pa would always buy us sour yet sweet lollipops at the small store just outside and stuff. All of these little things just add up. The square, the apartment, the fun we had... And slowly it just all started to disappear.
We grew bigger, spent less and less time there. My Pa died of cancer, a couple of years later my Ma followed, also by cancer. The apartment where at times the whole family had lunch together (like 15 people) got empty. Both from people, and from furniture. Later we sold the apartment.
I didn't think much of it at that time, but now as I think back... It is always like this... Only when we think back... That is the only time it is precious and when it hurts... For quite a long time I haven't even thought about it. The square, the apartment, nothing. The messy basement where we kept our first bikes and only my Pa knew wich key is to be used on the 2 different doors feom the 5 keys... Nothing...
And these kind of songs get me back to that place that isn't even far, 15 minutes of walking at a slow paste. Even the square changed. The slag based soccer field is now full of grass, one of the swings and it's supporting fences are taken, as well as the teeters and the slide. Even the sand pit's supporting stones were taken away...
My childhood basically disappeared as I grew up, and I didn't even take notice of it since it just never crossed my mind...
Time is an asshole... I will tell you this much, even tough I am only this young...
Even I know this at this point...
This song is powerful and emotional that's what made it so great
When I was 5 years old I didn't really understand the meaning of this song, now I'm 25 years old, now I understand the meaning of this song, the meaning is quite sad 🥺❤️
Memories am I right?
@@Starvaze Yes❤️
This song makes me wish I was born back before so much technology was part of our lives. Back when my grandparents were young. :( Beautiful song.
I put this song on every time i take a drive. Down to the cemetery. Where my father is laid to rest. Every August. He had liver cancer. Yet he spent almost every moment he could with me and my sister.
In so much pain. But wore a smile all the time.
Rest In Peace, dad.
Rest In Peace.
I believe that the revival of the town will make America Great Again. I moved back to a small city after living in the big city for 6 months.
This song brings me back to my teenage time where we spent our town in this small town.
I was in the beginning of my teenage years when the first Cars movie came out
***** Talk about the end of childhood
I haven’t felt such strong emotions in so long. This song is so beautiful and such a powerful meaning behind it.
i don't know why, but i haven't seen cars in like 7 years, until my little brother watched it for the first time, and then i realised that the movie actually had a message... ...and i actually got a lil emotional while watching 😆🥺
Ach! James Taylor singing wistfully about the past. I can't dislike this.
I'm duty-bound to remove one sin!
Tim Franklin right?! What a beautiful song and a great movie.
You’re not the only one
Tears. Tears. Everywhere.
Although I was extremely young when this movie came out I vaguely remember watching the scene with this song, thinking it was just a simple track with soft guitars, elegant pianos, majestic strings and singing. However when I grew older, I decided to rewatch Cars. And it was at that point that I actually listened to the lyrics. It genuinely brought a tear to my eye, the past is left behind, and everything changes right before your very eyes. Although I’m not from America, I know about the true tragic stories for tiny towns along Route 66 since Interstate 40 was constructed.
All thanks to one movie, my vision for the past changed and altered significantly.
I have tears in my eyes everytime i hear this song. This could be appropriate to everywhere and everyone...❤️
Gosto dessa canção..
Lembro-me da primeira vez que assistimos junto com os meus filhos
filme q fica pra vida toda
Que filme cês tão falando
@@tommymasturbhandu902 u seriously don't know what song this movie is from???
@@tommymasturbhandu902 It's from Cars. If you never seen it then you really didn't have a childhood. This movie yes I did hate as a kid but now that I'm 19 and watch it I understand why it's such a great movie and I can clearly understand the messages it brings now
Cars and Toy Story will always have a place in my heart. After so many years.. masterpieces...
I've watched it 10 times and I still can't get over how great it is. This was one of the greatest moments in it.
Lovely reflection on how change affects all of us.
This song is so beautiful literally made my eyes tear up
Essa música realmente me fez chorar pela nostalgia desse filme que marcou muito minha infância 😭❤️
🙏
Eu choro toda vez que escuto essa música 😢
The funny thing is, I always enjoyed hearing this song when I watched Cars. Then my uncle introduced me to James Taylor recently and I love his music. I watched Cars again and realized that this was him. What a beautiful song and a great singer.
Great job on the song… makes you not just miss the way it used to be, but all the loved ones past who used to be there too
“The world was different oh yes it was” 😢🔥
My all time favorite song from Cars (2006).
Our town & Life is a highway, the two masterpieces💞❤️
"How great would it have been to see this place in its heyday"
- Lighting McQueen
James Taylor the songs is magic. Is a dream. Wonderful. Tank you!!!
Pixar, i love you for adding this song in to cars, its beutifull, nostalgic, just.........perfect. As I look back at the film and listen to the song al the time, im in literall tears, so BRILLIANT
I'm crying by this song :'(
Hahaha mietje
@@JustUmtochtik lol ook NL?
@@gareth6337 hahaha ja tuurlijkk
I'm crying by this song 😂 I Love
@@JustUmtochtik legend
When I was young, I just enjoyed the song.
When I watched the film again, as a grown up, I realised the true meaning of the song. It has so much meaning, it hits so much deeper and harder. Damn, it definitely brought a tear to my eye.
This has got to be the greatest song i have ever heard.I just love it !!!
Watched this in theaters when I was 6. Loved it, mostly just watching the cars drive back then. Hadn't seen it in years, watched it today again. I'm 22 now. I cried so hard.
Боже, как можно было написать настолько душевную песню.......
This song really hits deep once you realize how grown have you got.
All that was your home, your family, friends, changes, it feels like...
*"What has been my life all along?"*
And when you see how years have changed you, you want to go back, but that's something we can't do... we miss, we feel sad, but... that's part of our life, after all.
Well the time has come. This is my song this year as we prepair to leave New York. Never thought it would happen but politics destroyed little towns cities communities beyond repair. Im the last here and the rest are scattered all over the country. The words in the song "Nothing you can do" hits home to me. I see my little league field I played on, my son played on and My Daughter but all these memories will be left here. Family gone a few years ago. Friends leaving every year, now it's Us. Got to thank the Democrats that run N.Y., Long island for the $18k a year property taxes, home prices over $750k for 50' x 100' and a 1200 square ft. home, oh and the 42 billion in higher taxes to take care of illegals that they hide, feed, give drivers licenses too, homes and health care all that cost Us our homes, our towns our memories. We all say we need to do something but it's too late for some states.
At least you can have an abortion, have plenty of bike lanes on your street, be banned from owning a gun, etc
Lived in this town a long time. Moved when I got married but came back because I wanted to give my kids the same great childhood I had. But now with my Daughter having one more year of high school and my son having 4 years to go, this town has changed. The new people have no small town values and don't care for even their next door neighbors. The old town has changed as much as I wish it would stay the same. But how do I leave My town to these bums. Friends moved away first. Family has moved now neighbors are leaving. I'm one of a few left. Anywhere else will feel lime an extended vacation and eventually I'll feel like it's time to go home. So many memories. Kids still have some friends here but that's it. Me and a few childhood friends all discussing when or where we all will end up. This song hits deep in my heart. My kids grew up here too.
This remember my about my home town,Fairmont,NC,damn it looks so,so SAD,much love to u(Fairmont)!!
Think about all those small towns in NV, AZ, UT, TX, CA that were bypassed when ISHS (InterState Highway System) was put in place. Imagine all those people living there since times of their grandparents, who lived off the trade with travellers. Imagine how they must have been feel like, their sadness, anger, resignation, pain, despair, sense of betrayal, being fooled; having to make a decision: to move out and find new place to live and make for living, probably in bigger cities, and thus leave the land where they were born and raised forever; or stay and see the town slowly collapse and go extinct.
Rachel Nevada for example. Population 54 people. Love it here
like Buford Wyoming population 1 btw that comment sounded like good inspiration for songwriters and filmmakers
I am from different country, No offense but..is this so true?
@@mexxxcool865 no it's an exaggeration there's more than 54 people in Nevada and more than 1 person in Wyoming it's just they don't get a lot of visitors I suppose (minus Vegas) which is why they said that.
Holbrook, AZ.
"um carro velho e rabugento me ensinou uma coisa, é só uma taça vazia"
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Saudades
Existe muito mais nas corridas,além de vencer
@@alessandrocosta3228 catiau ⚡
Nossa mano, emocionou
As I listen to this I just keep on thinking of the day I have to leave my home, my town, my city...... Where I live the colleges aren't really good so after I finish my high school I have to leave my city and state, right now I have 9 months left of school and I will be gone by next year and maybe I won't return here for the rest of my life except for the occasional visits to my parents........ I have been here for my entire life, the fact that soon the roads I knew, the houses I passed by while going to school, the ground where we used to play will be something of past is so sad......... But at the same time I am also excited because I would exploring the world so it's kind of a mixed feeling.
"Main street isnt main street anymore... Light dont shine as brightly.. as they shone before..... Tell the truth.. lights dont shine at all.. in our.. town"
As a kid living in sweden, we watched the movie in swedish when i was younger which means that i didint listen to the lyrics at all, just enjoyed it. Nowadays i listen to the lyrics in a song to understand them and to get the feeling you know?
Every time I hear this song, I can't help but think of my hometown. And while I still pay a visit every now and then, I can only imagine how different it will be in 40-50 years from now, and it makes me wanna cry. I never had any friends, but I made a lot of memories in my hometown, most of which are now lost in the back of my brain while others are mostly negative, but the only reason I keep those memories, no matter how dramatic they were and are, it's because I want to remember my hometown. After my town will be gone, only a few of us will remember it ever existed
How do animated movies always end up creating the most amazing music
This song is perfect when you are moving away from your hometown when you have been living there for a long time.
Man my favorite movie Disney Pixar's cars I loved it I watched it everyday as a kid an now I'm about to be 14 in 3 days an sadly I still watch it once a month
hate to break it to ya. you are still a kid.
He's still not a kid. Being 14 means you are in your early teen years. Besides, the original Cars movie came out ten years ago.
14 is still technically a kid, yes it is a teen but still a kid. you aren't technically an adult until you turn 18
also i am 22 and really enjoy this movie... i loved the hell out of it back in 2006 when i was 12
Kman1 True about being 18
And you're still a teen until you hit 20.
How could I have been so ignorant back then? I used to really relax to this song, even used it to go to sleep because seemed it nothing short of calm and relaxing. Now, I cannot listen to it without shedding tears.
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 changed 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, nothing you can do
Main street isn't main street anymore
Lights don't shine as brightly as they shone before
To 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 a new 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
🥲
Have always loved Cars. And then...as life would have it, my daughter needed me to drive with her from San Diego to Atlanta. And part of the route we took was down Route 66.
I immediately thought of this song and the Cars movie.
A truly awesome experience to drive on Route 66 and drive thru the Heartland of America.
As a high school freshman living in a small town, I find this song way too relatable:It feels like time is flying way too quickly with each passing day. Sometimes I wish the world and all its people would slow down a little and just have time to breathe a little. These days everyone is in a mad scramble to reach the top of the food chain and they don't take the time to stop and smell the roses.....if that makes any sense. I'd give _anything_ to go back in time and relieve the best moments of my life, even for a moment, to just go back to that sense of familiarity and comfort that I felt back when I was younger and I didn't need to worry about things changing right before my eyes. Anyway, I'm sorry for wasting your time by writing this comment for you to read but I just needed to say something.....
No, it's okay) Furthermore, your experience is very interesting. You are right, time is passing, we grow older and start to notice things that we didn't notice before. Even cruel ones. You know, I hate the time I live on. And like you, want to relieve these cool moments of my life over and over again.) Cause the real matter of our life are emotions. Just emotions make our life brighter and full of different colors)
@@Lost_Gold08 Believe me, I've been trying.
songs like that are beautiful I like songs like that I've always have since I was little I even listen to country and love songs
I'm not a big country person but I am a sucker for love songs
"Time goes by, time brings changes, you change too." This hits me. The world and the internet isnt the same anymore. 😔
Nothing is. I'm happy I grew up, but I miss the good old days.
We are the many, we are the strong, we are Collinsville, Oklahoma. Est. May 26th, 1897.
I sing this song to celebrate the founding of my hometown every year and it brings tears to my eyes that we’ve stayed standing for this long.
Nostalgia 😭 eu nasci em 2005 e cresci assistindo relâmpago McQueen 😍,minha animação favorita ❤
sou de 2003 e passei a infância vende esse filme também
2005 tbm kkjkk nostalgia
I was born in 2005 as well. 17 years ago… wow.
Sou de 2003, também cresci assistindo… nostalgia imensa😂😍
Eu nasci em 1993, eu tinha 13 anos quando esse filme estreou em 2006, essa música me faz chorar toda vez que ouço 😭😭
This song and these pictures made me cry :*(