The September of My Years

The title song for Sinatra’s 1965 album — one of his most personal and critically acclaimed recordings — won Cahn and Van Heusen the Grammy Award for Best Original Score. The album itself won Album of the Year, and this opening track sets its autumnal, reflective tone with extraordinary grace.

Cahn’s lyric meditates on middle age with unusual honesty — not denial, not regret, but a clear-eyed acceptance of time passing that only deepens in meaning as the listener grows older alongside it.