Songs About Home

This week, directly contrasting with last week's Songs of Leaving, we're going home. I like to play with the versatility of the idea of home. Is it where you grew up, or where you live? Is it your physical house, your town, or is it a person? 

 

It's where your heart is, just like they always say. What they don't always get right, though, is that we leave pieces of our heart just about wherever we go. There is a piece of my heart with old friends I no longer speak to, even though that is no longer home. 

"Homeward Bound" - Simon and Garfunkel

"I wish I was homeward bound  
Home, where my thoughts are skipping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting silently for me"

 

"Long Way Home" - The Goo Goo Dolls

"When your hope is sinking like a stone
I will take your hand, I will walk you home
If you never try, you're never gonna know
I will take you there, but you can't let go
'Cause it's a long way home"

 

"She's Leaving Home" - The Beatles

"She
Is having
Fun
Something inside, that was always denied
For so many years
She's leaving home"

 

"My Hometown" - Bruce Springsteen

"I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
He'd tousle my hair and say Son, take a good look around
This is your hometown"

 

"When I Get Home" - The Beatles

"Come on
If you please
I got no time for triviality
I got a girl who's waiting home for me
Tonight"

 

"My Little Town" - Simon and Garfunkel

"In my little town
I never meant nothin', I was just my father's son
Savin' my money
Dreamin' of glory
Twitchin' like a finger on the trigger of a gun
Leaving nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town"

 

"Long Way Home from Here" - Matthew Perryman Jones

"There's nothing left to fear
Fear took everything I've known
I wanna feel you near, it's a long way home
From here"

 

"On Your Porch" - The Format

"We talked all night
About everything you could imagine
'Cause come the morning, I'll be gone
And as our eyes start to close
I turn to you and I let you know
That I love you"

 

"Front Porch" - Joy Williams

"We carved a story in these boards
Watching life go back and forth
You take it all for granted, then you leave
And then it takes a while to realize what you need
If never you find what you're looking for
Come on back to the front porch"

 

"Local Honey" - AL Riggs

"Nothing sweeter than local honey
Nothing sadder than a local death
Nothing sweeter than local honey
Nothing faster than a dying breath"

 

"Home Again" - Elton John  

"If I could go back home
If I'd never left
I'd never have known
We all dream of leaving
But wind up in the end
Spending all our time trying to get back home again"