Mackleore Good Old Days Analysis

“Good Old Days” by Macklemore featuring Kesha is about the present and how quickly it passes by and everybody needs to learn how to live in the present and not in the past nor the future, like the chorus says “I wish somebody would have told me babe / Some day, these will be the good old days”. The song is about appreciation of the moment and reveals that the society more about what did or will happen.
The speakers conflict is with themselves not with another person. They’re blaming themselves not to appreciate time and let it fly away. In Macklemore's second verse his tone is upset because of the things he didn’t do when he had the opportunity or did do something bad instead of the good. He’s referring to the platitude, which says that “the