Songs about Home

[Purron]

I suspect many of you are like DH and I - we love being home. This is one of the major reasons we wanted to retire early. To get out of offices and off of the highways and just be home.

Please share any songs that remind you of home. Here's one we love:

Talking Heads - This must be the place (Naive Melody) [live - 1984].avi - YouTube

Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round
I feel numb - burn with a weak heart
Guess I must be having fun
The less we say about it the better
Make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground
Head in the sky
It's ok I know nothing's wrong . . nothing

Hi yo I got plenty of time
Hi yo you got light in your eyes
And you're standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money
Always for love
Cover up + say goodnight . . . say goodnight

Home - is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
I come home - -she lifted up her wings
Guess that this must be the place
I can't tell one from another
Did I find you, or you find me?
There was a time before we were born
If someone asks, this where I'll be . . . where i'll be

Hi yo we drift in and out
Hi yo sing into my mouth
Out of all those kinds of people
You got a face with a view
I'm just an animal looking for a home
Share the same space for a minute or two
And you love me till my heart stops
Love me till I'm dead
Eyes that light up, eyes look through you
Cover up the blank spots
Hit me on the head ah ooh

[W2R]

This one isn't exactly ABOUT home, but I think it has a lot of the feelings in it that come to mind.

Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound - YouTube

Homeward Bound

I'm sittin' in the railway station
Got a ticket for my destination
On a tour of one night stands
My suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one man band

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me

Everyday's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines
And each town looks the same to me
The movies and the factories
And every stranger's face I see
Reminds me that I long to be

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me

Tonight I'll sing my songs again
I'll play the game and pretend
But all my words come back to me
In shades of mediocrity
Like emptyness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me

Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home, where my thought's escaping
Home, where my music's playing
Home, where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Silently for me
Silently for me

[Purron]

This song captures the loneliness of the many weeks I spent on the road for my work. Nights alone in hotel rooms, calls back home that made me miss home even more, and all of it. So glad those days are behind me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by W2R This one isn't exactly ABOUT home, but I think it has a lot of the feelings in it that come to mind. Homeward Bound I'm sittin' in the railway station Got a ticket for my destination On a tour of one night stands My suitcase and guitar in hand And every stop is neatly planned For a poet and a one man band Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home, where my thought's escaping Home, where my music's playing Home, where my love lies waiting Silently for me Everyday's an endless stream Of cigarettes and magazines And each town looks the same to me The movies and the factories And every stranger's face I see Reminds me that I long to be Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home, where my thought's escaping Home, where my music's playing Home, where my love lies waiting Silently for me Tonight I'll sing my songs again I'll play the game and pretend But all my words come back to me In shades of mediocrity Like emptyness in harmony I need someone to comfort me Homeward bound I wish I was Homeward bound Home, where my thought's escaping Home, where my music's playing Home, where my love lies waiting Silently for me Silently for me Silently for me

[LOL!]

There are many great versions of Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home". Here's one:

Steve Winwood - Can't Find My Way Home - YouTube

[73ss454]

Rock and Roll!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13R4K...eature=related

[Purron]

Quote:

Originally Posted by 73ss454 Rock and Roll!

[easysurfer]

Here you go:

Dougie MacLean - Caledonia - YouTube

I don't know if you can see
The changes that have come over me
In these last few days I've been afraid
That I might drift away
So I've been telling old stories, singing songs
That make me think about where I came from
And that's the reason why I seem
So far away today

Oh, but let me tell you that I love you
That I think about you all the time
Caledonia you're calling me
And now I'm going home
If I should become a stranger
You know that it would make me more than sad
Caledonia's been everything
I've ever had

Now I have moved and I've kept on moving
Proved the points that I needed proving
Lost the friends that I needed losing
Found others on the way
I have kissed the ladies and left them crying
Stolen dreams, yes there's no denying
I have traveled hard with coattails flying
Somewhere in the wind

(Chorus)
Now I'm sitting here before the fire
The empty room, the forest choir
The flames that could not get any higher
They've withered now they've gone
But I'm steady thinking my way is clear
And I know what I will do tomorrow
When the hands are shaken and the kisses flow
Then I will disappear

[JOHNNIE36]

Just off the top of my head I would pick "Country Road" by John Denver and also "Back Home Again In Indiana". I only hear this one during the Indy 500 sung by Jim Nabors but it reminds me so much of my own home town in Ohio. "The new mown hay in all it's fragrance", etc. I can smell it now. I miss those days.

[easysurfer]

Okay. I wasn't homesick before, but now I am

[Purron]

Beautiful.

Quote:

Originally Posted by easysurfer Here you go: I don't know if you can see The changes that have come over me In these last few days I've been afraid That I might drift away So I've been telling old stories, singing songs That make me think about where I came from And that's the reason why I seem So far away today Oh, but let me tell you that I love you That I think about you all the time Caledonia you're calling me And now I'm going home If I should become a stranger You know that it would make me more than sad Caledonia's been everything I've ever had Now I have moved and I've kept on moving Proved the points that I needed proving Lost the friends that I needed losing Found others on the way I have kissed the ladies and left them crying Stolen dreams, yes there's no denying I have traveled hard with coattails flying Somewhere in the wind (Chorus) Now I'm sitting here before the fire The empty room, the forest choir The flames that could not get any higher They've withered now they've gone But I'm steady thinking my way is clear And I know what I will do tomorrow When the hands are shaken and the kisses flow Then I will disappear

[Purron]

Quote:

Originally Posted by LOL! There are many great versions of Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home". Here's one: Steve Winwood - Can't Find My Way Home - YouTube

Blind Faith is one of our favorite groups ever. This is one of their best.

[Purron]

Always loved the part about "two cats in the yard"

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our House - YouTube

[73ss454]

Home on the Range (Bush version) by The Freedom Toast - YouTube

[MichaelB]

Sweet Home Alabama

LYNYRD SKYNYRD - Sweet Home Alabama - YouTube

[73ss454]

Impalas - Sorry, I Ran All The Way Home (live) - YouTube

[Marita40]

Classic Ella Fitzgerald: "A House Is Not a Home"

Ella Fitzgerald - A House Is Not a Home, 1969 - YouTube