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In our hearts and in love we can find home at any time. So we don’t have to take the long way, struggle for attention, success, recognition, home. I can absolutely understand why he turned down the 5 mil offer. Putting the song in a commercial would greatly cheapen the song and it's message, which is loved by millions of people around the world.
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Once your order is validated, the final mixing of the file begins. Roger Hodgson sings about how after so much time on the road, you want to take the long way home, either due to homesickness or not having reasons to return (why return and feel diminished by an ignoring wife?). To me, those lyrics could definately be interpreted as someone who has just given up hope and just decided to "take the long way home". Just a different take on the song. On a personal note...this song is about every commute you have ever taken.
I interpret it as the personal struggle Roger was feeling with the pressure of being an elite rock musician versus the responsibility of being a husband and father. The vocals, and emotion of Roger's vocals combined with the clarinet, and keyboards really strike a chord-a great song! In an interview with a Danish tv network, Roger cited the need to be a regular father as the reason he decided to leave the band in 1983.
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This song has become my mantra. As a single person, I can relate to the lyrics, "When the time comes to settle down, who's to blame if you're not around." I give it five stars because drums, bass, etc. all sound really good! I did notice when I isolated the harmonica track that there is a bad bleed over of music. But I'm not going to be using that so it's okay.
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I also have played harmonica and alto sax in a band called Scott Taylor &The Fond Farewells. Makes me think of something that is so sad that you can't put it into words. This song takes me back to when I was young and free and had none of the responsibilities or regrets of what is now my middle age.
All musical material is re-recorded and does not use in any form the original music or original vocals or any feature of the original recording. Panning allows you to create distinct effects by adjusting the track’s sounds to left or right. All files available for download are reproduced tracks, they're not the original music. Having loved this song since it was released, what it speaks to me personally is a sense of needing to 'reset' one's outlook on the often out of control madness in our lives. I'm so very glad that the band didn't sell out and let Greyhound use this song for their commercials. This album is one of my all-time favorites.
This song is basically the soundtrack to my life....I love it! Also, Lazlo Bane does a great cover of this song. Personally, I think it's worth listening to. I'm quite sure about the meaning and it's different than the comments I saw here.
Especially with words that can be interpret as a person being loved by many who dont really him, and enjoyed the crowd's praises. Outside of that arena he has to deal with the realities of home life and his harshest critics. Too long being in one place doing the same thing for years makes one wonder if you could have been someone other than yourself - a much better you. Really don't like this song or the entire album. They did much better in previous albums.
I have been lucky to play with many great musicans, for that I am grateful. This song appeared uncredited, along with "Child of Vision" (also from the "Breakfast in America" album) in the 1984 Richard Lester directed film, "Finders Keepers". The movie starred Michael O'Keefe ("Caddyshack") and Lou Gossett Jr. I don't know why this song has always struck me as being about suicide for some reason. I've always assumed that this song was about him and his failed or about to fail marriage.
Whatever the case, i'm sure he has drawn a lot of this from personal experiences. In this case, the precipitating event is that he is walking own the street one day and an iron girder from a skyscraper building project falls and just misses him by inches. That causes him to rethink his life and split right at that very moment.
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